Best Public Schools in Zip Code 08722

ZIP code 08722 has two schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade in the Toms River Regional School District: Beachwood Elementary School serves grades K–5, and Toms River Intermediate School South serves grades 6–8. They enroll 480 and 1,044 students, respectively. The schools’ 2025–2026 results show a clear difference in state-relative performance: Beachwood’s grade-span averages were 1 point below the state in ELA and 2 points above in math, while Intermediate South averaged 13 points below in ELA and 16 points below in math. The most important finding is that Beachwood’s results were near or above state averages overall, while Intermediate South’s were substantially below.

Beachwood’s strongest results came from fifth grade: students were 14 points above the state in ELA (66% versus 52%) and 25 points above in math (71% versus 46%); fifth-grade science was also 6 points above the state. Its other grades were more mixed, including fourth-grade ELA 11 points below and math 13 points below. Intermediate South had the area’s largest regular-grade deficits: sixth- and seventh-grade math were 18 points below the state, and eighth-grade math was 13 points below. However, its end-of-course math results were a notable strength: Algebra I was 26 points above the state and Geometry 15 points above. The schools serve different grades, so these are comparisons with state results, not direct same-grade school comparisons.

Recent results improved most at Beachwood: its average ELA and math gap moved 6 points toward the state from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Intermediate South’s average gap widened by about 1 point. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rank rose from 38 to 50 for Beachwood and fell from 31 to 28 for Intermediate South. Both schools had a 12.6 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025. That year, free/reduced lunch eligible students represented 40% at Beachwood and 50% at Intermediate South. Chronic absenteeism was 13% and 14%, respectively, below the district’s 16% and the state’s 14%; these figures provide context but do not explain achievement differences.