Sea Girt Elementary School, Sea Girt NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Sea Girt Elementary School

Sea Girt Elementary School serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in the small, affluent seaside borough of Sea Girt on the Jersey Shore. The school is the only public school in the Sea Girt Borough School District, and for high school, families send their children to Manasquan High School under a long‑standing sending‑receiving arrangement that is a stable feature of the district.

Academically, the school posts strong results on the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments. In English language arts, performance climbs markedly across grade levels. Starting with solid proficiency in the early elementary years, the share of students meeting the state’s proficiency bar rises to the highest levels by grades six, seven, and eight. Math results are also strong overall, though they vary a bit by grade, with the youngest tested grade showing a perfect record and later elementary grades showing somewhat lower but still mostly strong performance. One grade’s results in math were suppressed for confidentiality reasons, a common occurrence when a tested group is very small. In science, the picture is more mixed: at fifth grade a solid majority of students are proficient, but at eighth grade the share is notably lower, a soft spot a family may want to explore with the school.

The school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places it in the top quarter of districts in Monmouth County, a meaningful strength. Because the school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. The school’s enrollment is small, and the student body is overwhelmingly white, with very small numbers of students from Asian, Black, and Hispanic backgrounds. Data on free or reduced‑price meal eligibility, special education identification, and English learner status were not available, so a reader cannot assess economic or language diversity from this dashboard alone.

Sea Girt itself is a compact, fully built‑out borough of roughly one square mile. Housing values are among the highest in the country, consistent with the area’s reputation as a quiet, wealthy shore community. The borough’s small size and premium property market mean little new housing development is occurring; population has been stable to slightly declining. Major employers are state institutions: the New Jersey State Police Academy, the Department of Corrections training facility, and the National Guard training center, rather than private businesses or a commercial core. There is no traditional downtown; street life centers on the beachfront and the residential grid. The Sea Girt Lighthouse, the National Guard Militia Museum, and Wreck Pond are notable civic and natural anchors.

Because Sea Girt Elementary ends at eighth grade, families who move here with children approaching high school face a known structure: all public high school students go to Manasquan, a neighboring town. That arrangement is not new and appears stable, with no recent referendum or major structural change flagged in the district’s recent history. For a family weighing this school, the academic picture is one of consistently high performance in literacy and math, with a dip in science at the eighth‑grade level that may warrant a closer look. The peer environment is small, homogeneous, and situated in a high‑cost, stable community. Several common data points such as economic diversity, special education rates, and chronic absenteeism were not reported, leaving gaps that a parent may wish to follow up on directly with the school.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 3100%

School 100% · District 100%

▲ 50 pts above state median · ▲ 39 pts above county median

Grade 469%

School 69% · District 69%

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

Grade 578%

School 78% · District 78%

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 790%

School 90% · District 90%

▲ 55 pts above state median · ▲ 44 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 380%

School 80% · District 80%

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

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 75%

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

Grade 583%

School 83% · District 83%

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

Grade 693%

School 93% · District 93%

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

Grade 795%

School 95% · District 95%

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

Grade 894%

School 94% · District 94%

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

Science

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 841%

School 41% · District 41%

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

This schoolSea Girt Borough 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.