Summary:
The nine schools in zip code 07726 include six elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, serving children from early learning through high school. In 2025–26, the five tested elementary schools averaged 70% in ELA, 76% in math and 41% in grade 5 science, compared with state averages of 49%, 47% and 27%, respectively. The strongest area-wide result was elementary math, averaging 28 percentage points above the state.
Wemrock Brook School and Lafayette Mills School led in different grades: Wemrock Brook had the top grade 3 ELA and math results, 78% and 82%, and the highest grade 5 science result, 50%—23 points above the state. Lafayette Mills led grade 4 math at 87%, 40 points above the state, and grade 4 ELA at 76%, 30 points above. Among the lower results, Milford Brook School had the lowest grade 5 science score, 29%, though that was still close to the state’s 27%. The clearest concern is at Manalapan High School: Geometry End of Course was 29% versus 52% statewide, and grade 9 Geometry was 31% versus 50%.
Results over time were mixed, with the sharpest declines at Manalapan High: grade 9 Algebra II fell from 95% in 2024–25 to 56% in 2025–26, while Algebra II End of Course fell from 92% to 57%; state results also dropped, narrowing the school’s advantage. Elementary ELA averages declined by about 4 points, while elementary math was nearly unchanged. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings also varied: from 2023–24 to 2025–26, Wemrock Brook rose from the 88th to the 93rd percentile, while Milford Brook fell from the 79th to the 74th; Manalapan High stayed at the 69th percentile. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible share in 2024–25 was 11% at Lafayette Mills and 16% at Wemrock Brook, which had strong results in different grades; these figures are context, not an explanation of scores. John I. Dawes Early Learning Center has no test scores listed, so it cannot be compared on achievement.
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