Summary:
Zip code 08755 has one listed school, Joseph A. Citta Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 511 students in the Toms River Regional School District. The key concern is that Citta was below the state in every reported 2025–2026 test result, with gaps ranging from 9 to 23 percentage points.
There are no other schools in the list to compare at the top or bottom, but Citta’s strongest result was grade 5 English language arts (ELA): 43% proficient, 9 points below the state and 2 points below the district. Its most pronounced state gaps were in grade 3 math, where 27% were proficient, 23 points below the state, and grade 4 ELA, at 25%, 21 points below. Citta also trailed the district in all seven subject-and-grade results; its average state gap was smaller in ELA than in math, 16 points compared with 20.
Math improved overall, but not in every grade: its average rose from 23% in 2024–2025 to 27% in 2025–2026, as grade 4 increased by 9 points and grade 5 by 15, while grade 3 fell by 10. ELA’s average was nearly unchanged at 33%, despite a 7-point grade 4 decline and a 7-point grade 3 gain. SchoolDigger rated Citta one star and placed it at 1,076 of 1,331 schools, in the 19th percentile, in 2025–2026. Context measures include a student–teacher ratio of 13.5 in 2024–2025 and 74% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; chronic absenteeism was 18%, above the district’s 16% and the state’s 14%. With only one school listed, the data cannot support school-to-school comparisons.
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