The top reported proficiency rate is 50% in English language arts. The lowest is 26% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Berkeley Township Elementary School
Bayville is an unincorporated community within Berkeley Township in Ocean County, a suburban area of single-family homes spread along and around Route 9. There is no walkable downtown; schools and municipal buildings sit on separate campuses scattered across the township. The community has seen notable population growth over recent decades, and housing values sit at a level that places the area solidly in the middle range for the broader region. The typical home carries a price well into the five-hundred-thousand-dollar range, and rents are correspondingly high, making this a place where buying rather than renting is the more common path.
Berkeley Township Elementary School serves just two grades, fifth and sixth, making it an intermediate stop in a child's journey through the district. It is a regular public school — not a charter or magnet — and its enrollment, evenly split between the two grade levels, reflects the community it draws from: a student body that is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic minority and smaller shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that is moderate for this part of New Jersey.
The school's academic results come from the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments, the statewide tests that measure proficiency in math, English language arts, and science. In fifth-grade math, just over four in ten students scored at a proficient level; in sixth-grade math, that figure dropped closer to three in ten. Results in English language arts were stronger: roughly half of fifth graders were proficient, and in sixth grade the share rose above half. Science, tested only at fifth grade, showed only about a quarter of students reaching proficiency. These figures put the school's overall proficiency index above the midpoint among Ocean County's school districts, but the variation by subject and grade means a family will see different outcomes in different areas.
The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to examine. Data on chronic absenteeism, discipline, and staffing were not available in the sources reviewed, so a parent may want to follow up with the school directly on those topics. Likewise, no program offerings — such as gifted, special education services, or extracurriculars — were recorded in the material we worked with.
What is clear is that Berkeley Township Elementary School is a small, focused intermediate school in a suburban, car-dependent community where housing costs are significant and population has been growing steadily. The academic picture is mixed: moderate performance in reading, weaker in math, and a low science result in fifth grade. For a family whose child is entering fifth or sixth grade and who values a school that is a stepping stone before a larger middle or high school, this is a place to investigate further — particularly around the specific support structures available for students who are not yet meeting the proficiency benchmarks in math and science. The district's elementary schools feed into this building, and after sixth grade students move on to a different school for the upper grades, so a family's full educational trajectory in Berkeley Township includes more than this one campus.
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