NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Long Branch, NJ

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9 public K-12 schools in Long Branch 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
5,441
Students
44.2/100
Avg Resource Index
10.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Long Branch has more public-school enrollment than 59% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Long Branch sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Long Branch's list includes 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Long Branch lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 73 to 1,500 students, a 21-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 41%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
66th percentile
Teacher staffing
96th percentile

Long Branch High School accounts for 27.6% of all Long Branch public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Long Branch-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

Long Branch school enrollment varies 21× across entities

Long Branch school enrollment ranges from 73 students (lowest) to 1,500 students (highest), a spread of 1,427 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Long Branch reports 62.1% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Long Branch student-teacher ratio is 10.8:1 — 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. Academy of Law & Public Safety 58
2. Long Branch Middle School 50
3. Morris Avenue Elementry School 48
4. Joseph M. Ferraina Early Childhood Learning Center 46
5. Lenna W. Conrow Elementary School 46
6. Gregory Elementary School 41
7. Long Branch High School 39
8. A a Anastasia Elementary School 37
9. George L Catrambone 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Long Branch

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 Academy of Law & Public Safety 54.1/100
  2. 2 Joseph M. Ferraina Early Childhood Learning Center 53.2/100
  3. 3 Long Branch High School 52.3/100
  4. 4 Long Branch Middle School 52.0/100
  5. 5 Gregory Elementary School 49.9/100

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Which Long Branch school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Academy of Law & Public Safety has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Long Branch schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Long Branch, NJ? ▼

Long Branch has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,441 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.8:1.

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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.