Fairview Elementary School, Red Bank NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Fairview Elementary School

Fairview Elementary School is a regular public school in Red Bank, part of the Middletown Township Public School District. It serves students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, and its size is about what one would expect for an elementary school serving that grade band. Located on Cooper Road, the school draws from neighborhoods within the borough of Red Bank, a densely populated commuter town with a walkable downtown core roughly twenty-four miles south of Manhattan. Red Bank has a vibrant commercial corridor on Broad Street, a train station with NJ Transit service to New York City, and cultural anchors like the Count Basie Center for the Arts and Marine Park along the Navesink River. The borough reached its highest census population ever in the 2020 count, though a subsequent estimate showed a slight dip.

The school’s student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students, and a very small number of Black students. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch is low, indicating that the share of families facing economic disadvantage is modest. Special education and English learner counts were not reported, so a reader may want to confirm those details directly with the school.

What stands out clearly about Fairview are its academic results on the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments. Across tested grades in math, performance is strong, with particularly robust results at third and fourth grade and a still solid showing at fifth grade. In English language arts, the pattern is similar: the school posts a high proficiency rate at fourth grade and a rate just above three-quarters at fifth grade, while the third grade result is lower, though still at a level many schools would consider functional. Where the picture changes is in fifth-grade science, where the proficiency rate falls well short of those seen in the other subjects. That gap is worth noting; a parent may want to ask how science instruction is structured and whether any changes are planned.

There is no graduation rate to report, because Fairview is an elementary school. The comparison set places Fairview relative to other districts in Monmouth County, and the school’s overall proficiency index across tested subjects and grades lands in the top quartile. That is a strong signal, especially given that the district as a whole has a countywide peer set of 62 districts.

The district brief turned up no recent parent-relevant changes, which is neither a positive nor a negative; it simply means the publicly available record did not surface any major boundary shifts, program overhauls, or budget developments that would reshape a family’s daily experience. The school appears to operate on a stable footing with no charter or magnet designation and no Title I status in the available data. For an elementary school in a commuter borough with a lively downtown and a district that oversees several other elementary buildings, Fairview’s academic profile is its most distinctive feature. It performs well in math and English language arts at most grade levels, while science presents an area where performance is notably weaker. Families considering this school will likely want to understand how science is taught in the intermediate grades and what the school’s trajectory looks like there.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 381%

School 81% · District 63% · ▲ 18 pts above district

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

Grade 488%

School 88% · District 62% · ▲ 26 pts above district

▲ 42 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 59% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

English language arts

Grade 361%

School 61% · District 54% · ▲ 7 pts above district

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

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 66% · ▲ 9 pts above district

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

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 65% · ▲ 9 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 531%

School 31% · District 38% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

This schoolMiddletown 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income40%Higher-income67%27 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income80%Higher-income82%2 pp gap