Summary:
ZIP code 08734 has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12 in the Lacey Township School District: Mill Pond Elementary School, Lanoka Harbor Elementary School, Cedar Creek Elementary School, and Lacey Township High School. In the latest comparable elementary results, the two tested schools’ average moved from about 1 point below the state average in 2024–2025 to about 5 points below in 2025–2026, a widening gap of about 4 points, driven mainly by Cedar Creek’s decline.
Lanoka Harbor had the strongest latest-year elementary results: it led Cedar Creek in six of seven grade-and-subject comparisons and averaged 44% across them, versus Cedar Creek’s 37%. Neither school was consistently above state results, and grade-5 science was a shared weakness: the schools averaged 15%, compared with 27% statewide. At the high school, grade-11 NJGPA results were slightly above state—79% in ELA and 62% in math, versus 76% and 61%—while grade-9 Geometry was 16%, 34 points below state. Mill Pond has no test scores supplied, so it cannot be compared on achievement.
Recent trends favor Lanoka Harbor over Cedar Creek: Lanoka’s average fell about 1 point from the prior year, while Cedar Creek’s fell about 8 points, though Cedar led in six of seven comparisons in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger rankings also diverged: Lanoka rose from the 40th to the 47th percentile between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, while Cedar fell from the 53rd to the 36th; all four schools have a SchoolDigger rating of 2 stars. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 31% at Lanoka Harbor and 27% at Cedar Creek, with student–teacher ratios of 12.4 and 11.2, respectively; these figures do not explain the different results.
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