Ocean Gate, NJ schools
Ocean Gate’s public schools score below New Jersey’s averages: 43% of students are proficient in reading against 47.3% statewide, and 92% of high schoolers graduate on time against 91.1%. Kids attend Ocean Gate Elementary School through grade 6, then Central Regional Middle School and Central Regional High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Ocean Gate’s School Grade: C+
The public schools Ocean Gate’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 63% of New Jersey’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on New Jersey’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of New Jersey only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in New Jersey with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Ocean Gate kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Below the state in reading
92% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Two districts serve Ocean Gate
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Ocean Gate
There’s no college in Ocean Gate, but 23 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Ocean County College in Toms River, 5.9 miles away.
13 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Ocean Gate. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 1 school in Ocean Gate
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Ocean Gate kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Ocean Gate’s district that are located in Bayville.