NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Manalapan, NJ

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

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8
Schools
4,502
Students
47.1/100
Avg Resource Index
11.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Manalapan has more public-school enrollment than 50% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Manalapan 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Manalapan's 8 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 2 middle and 0 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Manalapan's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 78th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 15-point gap between Pine Brook School and Taylor Mills School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 50%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
78th percentile
Teacher staffing
90th percentile

Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School accounts for 26.8% of all Manalapan public-school enrollment

That concentration means Manalapan-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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

Manalapan school enrollment varies 3.9× across entities

Manalapan school enrollment ranges from 306 students (lowest) to 1,207 students (highest), a spread of 901 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

Manalapan operates one school district — a single-district system

Manalapan's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Manalapan student-teacher ratio is 11.8:1 — 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. Pine Brook School 54
2. John I. Dawes Early Learning Center 54
3. Lafayette Mills School 52
4. Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School 49
5. Milford Brook School 44
6. Wemrock Brook School 43
7. Clark Mills School 42
8. Taylor Mills School 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Manalapan

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 Wemrock Brook School 55.0/100
  2. 2 John I. Dawes Early Learning Center 54.2/100
  3. 3 Taylor Mills School 52.7/100
  4. 4 Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School 49.5/100
  5. 5 Clark Mills School 43.0/100

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Which Manalapan school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Pine Brook School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Manalapan schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Manalapan, NJ? ▼

Manalapan has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,502 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.8:1.

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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.