Adelphia Elementary School, Freehold NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Adelphia Elementary School

Adelphia Elementary School serves children from pre-kindergarten through second grade in the Howell Township Public School District, operating as a regular public school. Because it covers only the earliest grades, the school does not have a graduation rate or many of the metrics associated with upper elementary and secondary schools. The state testing data available comes from a single academic year and covers students in grades three through five, but since Adelphia only enrolls through second grade, those test results are not from the school’s current students and are too old to be a reliable measure of the school today. The reader should treat those scores as informational only, not as a current reflection of performance.

The school’s enrollment is moderately sized for an early-elementary building, with classes spread across pre-kindergarten through second grade. The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Hispanic minority and smaller shares of Asian, Black, multiracial, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. About a fifth of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a modest share of families with lower incomes. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not provided.

Adelphia is located in Freehold, the county seat of Monmouth County. Freehold Borough itself is a dense, walkable small town centered on the courthouse and Main Street, with Victorian-era homes and a downtown core that earned it a Transit Village designation. The surrounding Freehold Township is more suburban and rural, with substantial open space and the Freehold Raceway Mall serving as a regional commercial anchor. Housing in the area is expensive, with home values well above the national median and rents that consume a large share of typical household income, reflecting the broader Monmouth County market. The borough’s population has grown recently, and the closure of the historic Freehold Raceway in late 2024 may open land for redevelopment. The Howell Township Public School District did not have recent parent-relevant changes reported, such as referendums, budget shifts, or curriculum updates.

Because Adelphia only serves the first few years of elementary school, the academic pathway it provides is a foundation for students who will then move to other district schools for the upper grades. Parents considering this school should expect a standard early-childhood program in a commuter-town setting with a high-cost housing market. There is no recent testing data that applies directly to the school, and the district has not made any notable recent changes that would affect the school experience. The school fits families looking for a neighborhood elementary feeder in a community that is dense in the borough and suburban just outside it, where home prices and rents are high relative to national averages.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 51% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 447%

School 47% · District 49% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 553%

School 53% · District 46% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 371%

School 71% · District 45% · ▲ 26 pts above district

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

Grade 457%

School 57% · District 54% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 49% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

This schoolHowell Township Public 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.