Summary:
ZIP code 07748 has eight schools—five elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools—in the Middletown Township Public School District, serving 5,719 students. The most important finding is the wide variation in elementary results, with Ocean Avenue Elementary School standing out as the area’s clearest low performer.
Nut Swamp Elementary School is the most consistent elementary standout: it exceeded state results in all seven of its reported 2025–26 tests and led the elementary schools in grade 5 ELA, with 85% proficient versus 52% statewide. Thompson Middle School was above the state in every reported test, including grade 7 math at 68% versus 38% statewide. By contrast, Ocean Avenue had the lowest result in six of seven elementary comparisons; in grade 3, it had 17% in ELA and 12% in math, while Middletown Village Elementary School led with 74% and 71%. Among the high schools, Middletown High School South led Middletown High School North on every comparable 2025–26 test; South’s grade 9 ELA result was 66%, compared with North’s 51%.
Recent results do not point to a uniform trend: the average elementary school-to-state gap improved by about 1 percentage point from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while it narrowed by about 5 points at Thompson. SchoolDigger’s rankings also show different trajectories: from 2023–24 to 2025–26, Nut Swamp rose from the 69th to the 81st percentile and South from the 79th to the 84th, while Thompson slipped from the 87th to the 85th. As context, in 2024–25 the free/reduced lunch eligible share was 39% at Ocean Avenue and 2% at Nut Swamp; Ocean Avenue’s student-teacher ratio was 10.8, while North and South each had a ratio of 12.3. These figures describe school settings and different-year results, but do not establish why outcomes differ.
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