Summary:
Spring Lake Borough has one school, H W Mountz Elementary School, serving PK–8 and enrolling 130 students. With only one school on the list, families cannot compare local schools with one another. The clearest finding is that all 11 reported 2025–2026 test results were above New Jersey’s same-grade results, by 37 to 60 percentage points.
H W Mountz is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in the area because it is the only one listed. Its largest advantage was in Algebra I: 100% of students met expectations, compared with 40% statewide, a 60-point gap. Grade 8 science was the school’s lowest reported result at 56%, but that was still 37 points above the state’s 19%. In Grades 3, 4, 6, and 7, the average mathematics advantage over the state was 52 points, compared with 46 points in ELA for those same grades.
Results moved in different directions by grade and subject, while the average advantage grew modestly across eight comparisons available in both years: from 42 points in 2024–2025 to 45 points in 2025–2026. Grade 7 mathematics rose 11 points and Grade 8 science rose 10 points, while Grade 7 ELA fell 7 points. SchoolDigger ranked H W Mountz 1st of 1,331 New Jersey elementary schools in 2025–2026, compared with 3rd of 1,347 the prior year. Context figures for 2024–2025 include a 5.5 student-teacher ratio, 7.5% chronic absenteeism versus 14.4% statewide, and 4% free/reduced lunch eligible.
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