The top reported proficiency rate is 43% in Math. The lowest is 42% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Freehold Learning Center
Freehold Learning Center is a regular public school serving prekindergarten through third grade in the Freehold Borough School District. As an early-elementary building, it feeds into the district’s upper elementary and middle schools before students reach Freehold Borough High School. Because the school stops at grade three, several metrics that matter for older schools simply do not apply here. There is no graduation rate, no high school course offerings, and no grade-level testing beyond what the state administers to third graders. The data reflects a school designed for the earliest years of formal education, and families should evaluate it on that basis.
The school is the sole primary-grade building in a small, centrally located Monmouth County district. Freehold Borough itself is the county seat, a dense commuter town about a thirty-minute drive from the Jersey Shore and roughly that far from the nearest major highway corridors. The borough has a walkable downtown core around the courthouse and Main Street, and it holds a state Transit Village designation that signals some investment in pedestrian-oriented development. Housing values and rents in the surrounding zip code are above national medians, and the county’s housing market shows moderate price growth and a relatively brisk pace of sales. The borough’s population reached a new high in the 2020 census, and local officials have pursued downtown revitalization and cannabis-business authorization. The closure of the long-running Freehold Raceway in late 2024 could open land for redevelopment, though no specific plans for that site are in the data.
Freehold Learning Center enrolls a student body that is heavily Hispanic, with White students forming the next largest group and small shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating that the school serves a population with significant economic need. Data on English learner identification and special education status were not available in the record. The school’s size is moderate for a pre-K–3 building, with enrollment concentrated in kindergarten through second grade. The third-grade class enrollment shows zero reported, which may reflect a data entry artifact or a cohort that simply did not materialize in the count; the school lists grade three in its served range.
The state assessment snapshot is thin. The only usable testing results come from the 2017-18 school year for third graders, who took the PARCC exams. On both math and English language arts, roughly two out of five students scored at or above the proficiency threshold. That is below the midpoint among the county’s school districts overall, but it is important to keep in mind that this is a single grade’s performance from several years ago, and the school’s grade band means there is no broader achievement picture from later elementary or middle school. Fourth-grade scores were suppressed due to low participation, and no more recent state assessment data is present in the file. A parent may want to ask the school or district directly about more current academic results.
The school’s program offerings, staffing ratios, discipline records, and attendance data are all absent from the record. The district brief turned up no recent changes in curriculum, facilities, or tax policy, so there are no large-scale shifts to report there either. Families looking into Freehold Learning Center should probably talk to the school office about what academic support is available, especially for English learners and students from low-income households, and about how the school prepares children for the transition to fourth grade in the upper elementary building down the line. The early-grade focus and the community’s dense, walkable downtown setting suit families who want a neighborhood elementary school within a small-town borough that has its own civic identity and a direct commuter link to the broader New York area.
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