Frog Pond Elementary School, Little Egg Harbor NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Frog Pond Elementary School

Frog Pond Elementary School serves students from third through sixth grade in Little Egg Harbor, a township on the Jersey Shore that has grown from a quiet resort area into a suburban community with residential subdivisions, waterfront bungalows, and commercial strips. The school is part of the Little Egg Harbor Township School District, which provides pre-K through sixth-grade instruction across three facilities before students move on to Pinelands Regional High School. Since the 2020-21 school year, the district has also taken in pre-K through sixth-grade students from neighboring Bass River Township, after Bass River closed its own schools due to declining enrollment and rising costs, a structural change that affects class sizes and resource distribution.

The student body at Frog Pond is predominantly white, with a Hispanic population representing a notable share and smaller groups of Black, Asian, multiracial, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. About half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a moderate level of economic need. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, with no Title I status reported. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not available.

State assessment results from the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment show clear variation across grade levels and subjects. In math, the share of students scoring proficient or above rises steadily from third grade through sixth grade, with the fifth and sixth grades performing at a notably higher level than the earlier grades. In English language arts, the pattern is more pronounced: performance jumps between third and fourth grade, with the fourth through sixth grades all posting stronger results. The sixth grade stands out, with a majority of students reaching proficiency in ELA. Science results, based on a single test in fifth grade, show a smaller share of students meeting the standard, a pattern that parents may want to ask the school about. When compared with other districts in Ocean County, Frog Pond’s overall proficiency across all tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint, meaning it performs better than the median district in the county but remains within a broad middle tier rather than at the top.

The school does not offer high school programs, so there is no graduation rate to report. Information on chronic absenteeism, discipline, course access, and staffing was not available in the data provided.

Little Egg Harbor itself is a low-density, car-dependent community without a traditional walkable downtown. Major roads include Route 9 and the Garden State Parkway, and the township abuts the Mullica River and Little Egg Harbor bay. The town has experienced steady population growth, driven in part by new retirement communities and housing developments, though Hurricane Sandy caused widespread damage to homes, especially in the Mystic Island section. Housing values in the area are moderately above the national benchmark but below the state average, while rents are elevated relative to typical incomes, a factor families should consider when evaluating affordability.

For families moving to the area, Frog Pond Elementary offers a stable public school environment in a growing township. The rising proficiency trajectory through the upper elementary grades is a positive sign, particularly in ELA, and the school’s overall performance places it in the more competitive half of Ocean County districts. The absence of data on special education and English learner populations is a gap worth exploring with the school, as is the limited science achievement. The school’s role as a receiving institution for Bass River students is a recent structural change that may affect class sizes and the distribution of supports across the district.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 36%

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 432%

School 32% · District 32%

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 40%

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

Grade 642%

School 42% · District 42%

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

English language arts

Grade 331%

School 31% · District 31%

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 446%

School 46% · District 46%

▼ 9 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 546%

School 46% · District 46%

▼ 8 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 656%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Science

Grade 523%

School 23% · District 23%

▼ 4 pts below state median · even with county median

This schoolLittle Egg Harbor Township 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income35%Higher-income26%8 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income39%Higher-income55%16 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income30%Higher-income62%32 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income51%Higher-income61%10 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income28%Higher-income45%17 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income23%Higher-income45%22 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income26%Higher-income54%28 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income35%Higher-income51%17 pp gap