Tinton Falls School District

Tinton Falls School District has three schools serving pre-K through eighth grade: Mahala F. Atchison School (pre-K–2), Swimming River School (grades 3–5), and Tinton Falls Middle School (grades 6–8). The supplied test results show an uneven but generally positive picture: in 2025–26, average school-to-state gaps were about 4 points in both ELA and math and 10 points in science. The clearest standout is the middle school’s Algebra I result.

Tinton Falls Middle School was especially strong in Algebra I: 98% were proficient on the end-of-course measure, compared with 40% statewide, a 58-point advantage; its eighth-grade result was 97% versus 75% statewide. Swimming River School stood out in fifth grade, with math at 59% versus 46% statewide and ELA at 61% versus 52%. Results were weaker in some other grades: Swimming River third-grade math was 40% versus 49% statewide, while middle-school sixth-grade math was 38% versus 40%. No school is an overall winner across these results: the schools’ tested grades do not overlap, and Atchison has no supplied test results.

Year-to-year trends differ: the average ELA advantage across the tested grades narrowed from 12 points in 2024–25 to 4 points in 2025–26, while the average math advantage stayed around 4 points. At Swimming River, ELA results fell most notably in fourth grade, from 69% to 48%; its average math advantage over the state increased from about 0 points to 1 point, helped by fifth grade. SchoolDigger ranks the district 267th of 607, at the 56th percentile, with 3 stars; its school histories show Swimming River moving from the 62nd to the 54th percentile and the middle school ending at the 71st percentile, where it began. Enrollment and student-teacher ratios are similar: 432–484 students and ratios of 8.1–8.5. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 18% at Swimming River, 19% at Atchison, and 26% at the middle school; chronic absenteeism was 8% at Swimming River and 17% at the middle school.