Asbury Park School District

The Asbury Park School District in New Jersey consists of 4 schools, including 2 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school. The district faces significant challenges, with consistently low academic performance, high chronic absenteeism, and socioeconomic factors impacting student outcomes.

Asbury Park High School stands out as the largest school in the district with 607 students, but it has the lowest statewide ranking and proficiency rates in English Language Arts (ELA) and Math, with only 8.4% and 2.4% of 7th graders, 8.8% and 1.2% of 8th graders, and 25.4% and 15.6% of 9th graders scoring proficient or better, respectively. The school also has a high chronic absenteeism rate of 46.0% and a dropout rate of 8.2%, though it maintains a relatively high 4-year graduation rate of 84.4%.

The district's elementary schools, Bradley Elementary School and Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, also face significant challenges, with Bradley Elementary ranking the lowest in the state and having very low proficiency rates in ELA and Math, as well as a high chronic absenteeism rate of 36.2%. Similarly, Dr. Martin Luther King Upper Elementary School has the lowest proficiency rates in ELA and Math among the district's schools, with only 7.7% of 6th graders scoring proficient or better in ELA and 1.1% in Math, and a high chronic absenteeism rate of 30.7%.