NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Hazlet, NJ

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9 public K-12 schools in Hazlet from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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9
Schools
2,744
Students
58.3/100
Avg Resource Index
9.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hazlet has more public-school enrollment than 25% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hazlet lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Hazlet's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 53-point gap between Monmouth County Vocational Technical High School and Sycamore Drive Early Childhood Learning Center shows the range hidden by Hazlet's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 75%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
98th percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Raritan High School accounts for 28.5% of all Hazlet public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Hazlet-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hazlet school enrollment varies 9.0× across entities

Hazlet school enrollment ranges from 87 students (lowest) to 781 students (highest), a spread of 694 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hazlet student-teacher ratio is 9.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Monmouth County Vocational Technical High School 89
2. Hazlet Middle School 67
3. Raritan High School 61
4. Beers Street School 60
5. Cove Road School 59
6. Raritan Valley School 53
7. Middle Road School 51
8. Lillian Drive School 49
9. Sycamore Drive Early Childhood Learning Center 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hazlet

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Monmouth County Vocational Technical High School 54.4/100
  2. 2 Sycamore Drive Early Childhood Learning Center 43.7/100
  3. 3 Lillian Drive School 43.4/100
  4. 4 Cove Road School 41.6/100
  5. 5 Raritan High School 40.3/100

What do families ask about schools in Hazlet?

Which Hazlet school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Monmouth County Vocational Technical High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hazlet schools in this federal-data comparison at 89/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hazlet, NJ? ▼

Hazlet has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,744 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 9.9:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.