Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Summary:

Spring Lake Heights Elementary School is a public school serving 307 students in grades PK-8 in the affluent coastal town of Spring Lake, New Jersey, which is part of the highly-ranked Spring Lake Borough school district.

This school stands out for its consistently strong academic performance, with students scoring well above state averages on standardized tests. For example, in 2022-2023, 65.5% of 6th graders were proficient or better in ELA, compared to the state average of 49%, and 67.6% of 3rd graders were proficient or better in math, compared to the state average of 45.9%. The school's 4-star rating from SchoolDigger and ranking in the top 25% of New Jersey elementary schools further demonstrate its excellence. Spring Lake Heights Elementary also has low chronic absenteeism rates and a small student-teacher ratio of 7.7, which likely contribute to its academic success.

Compared to nearby schools, Spring Lake Heights Elementary outperforms many of its peers. For example, Shark River Hills Elementary School, just 3 miles away, had significantly lower proficiency rates in ELA and math. This difference may be partly due to the higher socioeconomic status of Spring Lake Heights' student population, as indicated by its low percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch (6.51%) compared to the state average and schools like Belmar Elementary (51.27% free/reduced lunch).


Detail:

Public PK, KG-8

 1110 Highway 71
       Spring Lake, NJ  07762-2009


(732) 449-6149

District: Spring Lake Heights School District

SchoolDigger Rank:
322nd of 1,342 New Jersey Elementary Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $13,667 Help


Student/teacher ratio:  7.7 Help
Number of students:  307

Racial breakdown:

White:
90.6%
Hispanic:
5.9%
Two or more races:
2.3%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  6.5% Help


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Compare Details Spring Lake Heights Elementary School ranks better than 76% of elementary schools in New Jersey. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2023 the calculated Average Standard Score was 76.76. (See more...)
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Compare Details Spring Lake Heights Elementary School ranks better than 88.2% of middle schools in New Jersey. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2023 the calculated Average Standard Score was 84.14. (See more...)
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Chronic absenteeism in a high school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.
Student Body
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Compare Details Racial makeup is: White (90.6%), Hispanic (5.9%), two or more races (2.3%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 6.5% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)
Teachers
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School is 7.7. (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School is $13,667.
Schooldigger 2023 Rankings:

Spring Lake Heights Elementary School:

SchoolDigger ranks Spring Lake Heights Elementary School 322nd of 1342 New Jersey public elementary schools. (See Spring Lake Heights Elementary School in the ranking list.)

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SchoolDigger ranks Spring Lake Heights Elementary School 88th of 748 New Jersey public middle schools. (See Spring Lake Heights Elementary School in the ranking list.)

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Spring Lake Heights School District:

SchoolDigger ranks Spring Lake Heights School District 111th of 615 New Jersey school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

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Rank History for all elementary school students at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2003 68.80 464th 1204 61.5%
2004 65.40 562nd 1298 56.7%
2005 51.98 791st 1303 39.3%
2006 62.11 664th 1314 49.5%
2007 63.51 642nd 1329 51.7%
2008 59.75 682nd 1338 49.0%
2009 72.97 399th 1346 70.4%
2010 76.59 298th 1354 78.0%
2011 69.31 498th 1360 63.4%
2012 61.62 647th 1363 52.5%
2013 67.43 558th 1367 59.2%
2014 70.81 459th 1363 66.3%
2015 77.58 311th 1357 77.1%
2016 81.00 249th 1346 81.5%
2017 78.02 314th 1352 76.8%
2018 77.46 312th 1353 76.9%
2019 81.72 239th 1360 82.4%
2021 78.18 250th 1317 81.0%
2022 68.68 441st 1345 67.2%
2023 76.76 322nd 1342 76.0%
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Rank History for elementary school Female students at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 72.98 382nd 1333 71.3%
2019 74.61 340th 1331 74.5%
2021 77.36 234th 1290 81.9%
2022 72.06 388th 1326 70.7%
2023 75.67 324th 1318 75.4%
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Rank History for elementary school Male students at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 80.58 244th 1334 81.7%
2019 84.03 177th 1335 86.7%
2021 77.88 245th 1297 81.1%
2022 64.20 474th 1324 64.2%
2023 76.73 298th 1315 77.3%
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Rank History for elementary school White students at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 67.15 325th 1022 68.2%
2019 67.98 302nd 1023 70.5%
2021 69.76 232nd 964 75.9%
2022 55.93 427th 976 56.3%
2023 67.55 292nd 975 70.1%
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Data source: test scores: New Jersey Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

Rank History for Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

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Rank History for all middle school students at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2003 78.07 139th 574 75.8%
2004 76.37 165th 588 71.9%
2005 75.17 179th 599 70.1%
2006 85.12 53rd 615 91.4%
2007 74.28 177th 631 71.9%
2008 67.67 247th 640 61.4%
2009 77.11 147th 664 77.9%
2010 80.60 112th 677 83.5%
2011 87.22 27th 684 96.1%
2012 83.73 85th 677 87.4%
2013 86.19 44th 704 93.8%
2014 75.77 186th 717 74.1%
2015 59.78 262nd 713 63.3%
2016 52.56 337th 713 52.7%
2017 67.24 223rd 712 68.7%
2018 79.21 130th 716 81.8%
2019 77.81 148th 745 80.1%
2021 81.58 98th 652 85.0%
2022 82.79 101st 745 86.4%
2023 84.14 88th 748 88.2%
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Rank History for middle school Female students at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 74.37 170th 680 75.0%
2019 80.89 126th 703 82.1%
2021 56.55 225th 625 64.0%
2022 65.22 218th 726 70.0%
2023 86.86 77th 720 89.3%
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Rank History for middle school Male students at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 90.42 48th 675 92.9%
2019 87.46 75th 697 89.2%
2021 86.49 67th 635 89.4%
2022 89.20 57th 730 92.2%
2023 81.81 111th 718 84.5%
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Rank History for middle school White students at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools NJ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 80.69 62nd 497 87.5%
2019 80.00 65th 504 87.1%
2021 66.71 106th 435 75.6%
2022 80.15 74th 512 85.5%
2023 70.55 125th 509 75.4%
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Data source: test scores: New Jersey Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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Spring Lake Heights Elementary School Test Scores
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Enrollment information for Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 256 8 0 4 0 n/a n/a 0 268
1989 251 7 0 4 0 n/a n/a 0 262
1990 271 6 0 2 0 n/a n/a 0 279
1991 265 6 2 5 0 n/a n/a 0 278
1992 296 4 4 2 0 n/a n/a 0 306
1993 307 4 1 7 1 n/a n/a 0 320
1994 304 6 2 8 1 n/a n/a 0 321
1995 330 7 1 9 0 n/a n/a 0 347
1996 330 7 1 9 0 n/a n/a 0 347
1998 366 5 6 12 0 n/a n/a 0 389
1999 364 6 5 14 0 n/a n/a 0 389
2000 382 5 3 10 0 n/a n/a 0 400
2001 374 5 3 5 0 n/a n/a 0 387
2002 372 9 2 7 0 n/a n/a 0 390
2003 372 9 2 7 0 n/a n/a 0 390
2004 371 9 4 7 0 n/a n/a 0 391
2005 374 9 5 6 0 n/a n/a 0 394
2006 353 10 8 5 0 n/a n/a 0 376
2007 331 9 8 6 0 n/a n/a 0 354
2008 313 9 8 5 0 n/a n/a 0 335
2009 309 6 8 10 0 0 0 0 333
2010 314 4 7 7 0 0 0 0 332
2011 330 3 5 9 0 0 0 0 347
2012 340 2 5 10 0 0 0 0 357
2013 346 3 10 7 0 0 0 0 366
2014 321 5 10 12 0 0 2 0 350
2015 315 6 7 15 0 0 2 0 345
2016 315 8 8 12 0 0 3 0 346
2017 313 6 6 10 0 0 5 0 340
2018 308 5 6 11 2 1 4 0 337
2019 296 5 6 15 0 1 4 0 327
2020 306 4 7 16 0 1 6 0 340
2021 301 4 7 19 0 1 6 0 338
2022 291 3 5 17 0 0 6 0 322
2023 278 0 4 18 0 0 7 0 307

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 268 21.0 12.7 n/a
1989 262 21.0 12.4 n/a
1990 279 23.0 12.1 5.7
1991 278 25.0 11.1 7.9
1992 306 23.0 13.3 14.4
1993 320 26.1 12.3 12.5
1994 321 24.0 13.4 10.9
1995 347 28.7 12.1 11
1996 347 28.7 12.1 11
1998 389 31.1 12.5 8.2
1999 389 31.6 12.3 8.5
2000 400 32.8 12.2 10.3
2001 387 33.0 11.7 7.5
2002 390 35.3 11.0 7.2
2003 390 35.3 11.0 7.2
2004 391 35.0 11.2 6.6
2005 394 34.0 11.6 n/a
2006 376 34.0 11.1 6.4
2007 354 32.3 11.0 8.2
2008 335 26.0 12.9 8.4
2009 333 31.3 9.4 5.7
2010 332 24.0 13.8 7.5
2011 347 22.6 15.3 10.1
2012 357 29.8 11.9 8.7
2013 366 30.5 12.0 8.5
2014 350 31.6 11.0 9.4
2015 345 35.0 9.8 13.6
2016 346 35.0 9.8 8.1
2017 340 34.5 9.8 5.3
2018 337 33.5 10.0 4.5
2019 327 34.4 9.4 7
2020 340 34.9 9.7 4.1
2021 338 38.3 8.8 6.5
2022 322 42.3 7.6 6.2
2023 307 39.7 7.7 6.5

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 268 21.0 12.7 n/a
1989 262 21.0 12.4 n/a
1990 279 23.0 12.1 5.7
1991 278 25.0 11.1 7.9
1992 306 23.0 13.3 14.4
1993 320 26.1 12.3 12.5
1994 321 24.0 13.4 10.9
1995 347 28.7 12.1 11
1996 347 28.7 12.1 11
1998 389 31.1 12.5 8.2
1999 389 31.6 12.3 8.5
2000 400 32.8 12.2 10.3
2001 387 33.0 11.7 7.5
2002 390 35.3 11.0 7.2
2003 390 35.3 11.0 7.2
2004 391 35.0 11.2 6.6
2005 394 34.0 11.6 n/a
2006 376 34.0 11.1 6.4
2007 354 32.3 11.0 8.2
2008 335 26.0 12.9 8.4
2009 333 31.3 9.4 5.7
2010 332 24.0 13.8 7.5
2011 347 22.6 15.3 10.1
2012 357 29.8 11.9 8.7
2013 366 30.5 12.0 8.5
2014 350 31.6 11.0 9.4
2015 345 35.0 9.8 13.6
2016 346 35.0 9.8 8.1
2017 340 34.5 9.8 5.3
2018 337 33.5 10.0 4.5
2019 327 34.4 9.4 7
2020 340 34.9 9.7 4.1
2021 338 38.3 8.8 6.5
2022 322 42.3 7.6 6.2
2023 307 39.7 7.7 6.5

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

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YearExpenditures from Federal FundsExpenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $484 (3.5%) $13,183 (96.5%) $13,667

Data source: New Jersey Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Spring Lake Heights Elementary School

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 239th of 1360 Elementary schoolsRanks 322nd of 1342 Elementary schools
 6.4%
Ranks 148th of 745 Middle schoolsRanks 88th of 748 Middle schools
 8.1%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
3rd Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)69.752.9
 16.8%
   3rd Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights School District)69.752.9
 16.8%
   3rd Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)50.242
 8.2%
3rd Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)63.767.6
 3.9%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights School District)63.767.6
 3.9%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)55.145.9
 9.2%
4th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)82.463.9
 18.5%
   4th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights School District)82.463.9
 18.5%
   4th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)57.451.3
 6.1%
4th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)73.558.3
 15.2%
   4th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights School District)73.558.3
 15.2%
   4th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)5144.3
 6.7%
5th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)74.262.5
 11.7%
   5th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights School District)74.262.5
 11.7%
   5th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)57.953.2
 4.7%
5th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)7162.5
 8.5%
   5th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights School District)7162.5
 8.5%
   5th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)46.840.1
 6.7%
6th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)71.465.5
 5.9%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights School District)71.465.5
 5.9%
   6th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)56.149
 7.1%
6th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)65.262.1
 3.1%
   6th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights School District)65.262.1
 3.1%
   6th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)40.634.3
 6.3%
7th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)97.191.6
 5.5%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights School District)97.191.6
 5.5%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)62.855.7
 7.1%
7th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)47.851.9
 4.1%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights School District)47.851.9
 4.1%
   7th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)42.133.8
 8.3%
8th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)90.275.6
 14.6%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (Spring Lake Heights School District)90.275.6
 14.6%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (New Jersey)62.955.3
 7.6%
8th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)4534.6
 10.4%
   8th Grade Mathematics (Spring Lake Heights School District)4534.6
 10.4%
   8th Grade Mathematics (New Jersey)29.317.8
 11.5%
End of Course Algebra I (Spring Lake Heights Elementary School)8575.1
 9.9%
   End of Course Algebra I (Spring Lake Heights School District)8575.1
 9.9%
   End of Course Algebra I (New Jersey)43.335.1
 8.2%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students327307
 6.1%
African American50
 100%
American Indian00
Asian64
 33.3%
Hispanic1518
 20%
Pacific Islander10
 100%
White296278
 6.1%
Two or More Races47
 75%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients7%6.5%
 0.5%


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Spring Lake Heights Elementary School ranks 322nd of 1342 New Jersey elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 4 stars out of 5.

In the 2022-23 school year, 307 students attended Spring Lake Heights Elementary School.

Students at Spring Lake Heights Elementary School are 91% White, 6% Hispanic, 2% Two or more races, 1% Asian.


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