Brielle Elementary School, Brielle NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Brielle Elementary School

Brielle Elementary School serves the borough of Brielle from prekindergarten through eighth grade, after which students leave the district for high school, most attending Manasquan High School in the neighboring borough. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and it is the only school in the Brielle Boro School District. It sits directly adjacent to Borough Hall on Union Lane, near the town’s small commercial strip, so the civic and educational center of the community is tightly clustered.

The student body is overwhelmingly white, with a small share of Hispanic students and even smaller numbers of Asian, Black, multiracial, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. Just over a dozen students in the entire school qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a rate that is exceptionally low and reflects the community’s economic profile. Brielle is a built-out, largely residential borough of single-family homes with almost no vacant land, and housing values are very high, well above both the state median and the national median. A family moving into Brielle will find a tight housing market with few new developments. The waterfront, including marinas and charter fishing, gives the town its distinctive character, and many residents commute to the New York metropolitan area.

On state assessments, the school’s performance is clearly above the midpoint in overall proficiency among Monmouth County districts. English language arts results are consistently strong across the grades, with the large majority of students meeting the proficiency benchmark in every tested grade from third through eighth. Math results are solid for most grades as well, with the large majority of students scoring proficient in third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh grades. There is a notable drop in eighth-grade math, where the share of students reaching proficiency falls substantially below the patterns in earlier grades. This is a significant shift that a parent of a middle-schooler would want to ask the school about directly, to understand what the curriculum and support structure look like as students prepare for high school-level coursework. Science results in both fifth and eighth grades show about a third of students reaching proficiency, which is a softer area relative to the school’s performance in literacy and in elementary and middle-grades math.

Because the school ends at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. There are also no civil rights data or discipline numbers available in the material provided, so a reader cannot examine patterns in student support or exclusion. Chronic absenteeism data is likewise missing. The school’s staffing and course access details were not available in the data used here.

The district itself has no recent major changes publicly reported. Brielle Elementary appears stable and well-established, in a community that is not growing rapidly and has few remaining parcels for new housing. The school’s enrollment is spread fairly evenly across the grades, suggesting steady enrollment rather than sharp fluctuations.

For a family considering Brielle, the school offers a consistent record of strong literacy instruction and solid math performance through seventh grade, with the clear exception of eighth-grade math. The student body is economically very homogenous, and the lack of economic diversity is a characteristic of the community itself. The school is small enough that a child is not anonymous, and the campus is integrated into the village center. A parent who values high test scores and a stable, well-resourced environment will find much to like, but the dip in eighth-grade math and the weaker science scores are worth a closer look before enrolling.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 373%

School 73% · District 73%

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 472%

School 72% · District 72%

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 564%

School 64% · District 64%

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 661%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 761%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 17%

even with state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 362%

School 62% · District 62%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 470%

School 70% · District 70%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 680%

School 80% · District 80%

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 774%

School 74% · District 74%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 873%

School 73% · District 73%

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Science

Grade 536%

School 36% · District 36%

▲ 8 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 836%

School 36% · District 36%

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

This schoolBrielle Boro School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.