Summary:
ZIP code 08724 has five schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, with 3,868 students in all. Test results cover 2024–2025 and 2025–2026; comparisons are strongest among the three elementary schools because they serve the same grades. The most important finding is that elementary results vary sharply: Midstreams Elementary School is well ahead of Veterans Memorial Elementary School, which is substantially behind.
Midstreams led elementary schools in 2025–2026, averaging 56% in ELA and 50% in math across grades 3–5, compared with 49% and 47% for the state. Veterans Memorial Elementary averaged 38% in ELA and 34% in math—11 and 13 points below the state comparisons—and scored 14% in fifth-grade science, versus 31% at Midstreams. Lanes Mill Elementary School was between them, at 44% in both ELA and math. Results at the other levels are mixed: Veterans Memorial Middle School was above the state in eighth-grade math and far above it in Algebra I, but below in ELA in grades 6–8. Brick Township Memorial High School was above the state in ninth-grade ELA and Algebra I, but below in 11th-grade science and geometry.
Elementary averages declined from the prior year: about 2 points in ELA and math, and 4 points in fifth-grade science. School-level changes differed: Midstreams’ math average edged up, while Veterans Memorial Elementary’s fell 7 points; at the high school, ninth-grade geometry dropped 40 points, while Algebra I rose 13. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentiles moved up 3 points at Midstreams and 8 at Lanes Mill, but down 6 at Veterans Memorial Elementary, 5 at Veterans Memorial Middle and 6 at the high school. Other context also differs: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible rates ranged from 26% at Midstreams to 58% at Veterans Memorial Elementary; Midstreams had the highest elementary student-teacher ratio, 13.0, and Veterans Memorial Elementary had 24% chronic absenteeism, versus 13% at Midstreams and 14% statewide.
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