Seaside Heights

Enrollment, by grade

In 2025-26 it enrolled 150 students across grades PK–6. That is 119 fewer than in 1998-99 (269) — the district has shrunk. It peaked at 311 in 2002-03. Its biggest cohort is pre-K.

Students enrolled in each grade each fall, stacked to the total — so the top edge is total enrollment. Bands run from the lowest grade (light) to the highest (dark); a band that appears or disappears is a grade the school added or dropped. “Other” is students with no grade level (mostly special education), so the bands always sum to total. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the district looks like

In 1998-99, 83% of students were White. By 2025-26 the largest group was Hispanic, at 51%.

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2021-22 and 2025-26 the makeup of this district barely moved.

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →

Who works in this district

In 2025-26 this district reported 28.6 FTE of certificated staff — the teachers, administrators, supervisors and special-service staff who hold a New Jersey certificate. The largest reported group was White, at 100% of that FTE. In 2025-26 the largest group among the 150 children enrolled was Hispanic, at 51%.

Every staff bar is a share of reported FTE — fractional workload as the district reported it — not a share of employees. The student bar is a head count of children. They are two separate collections with different reference dates and different self-identification rules, put side by side so you can read them together; they are not one measurement and the difference between them is not a published figure. NJDOE names two of these categories differently in the staffing file than in the enrollment file: “Hawaiian Native” for Pacific Islander and “American Indian” for Native American.

A 0.0 in this table is a number New Jersey published: the district reported no staff FTE in that group and that role. It is not a gap in the data, and the only cells here that are withheld say so in words. New Jersey’s reporting schema has a non-binary category. It publishes a percentage for it, no count at all to go with the percentage, and then withholds the percentage — in every district, every role, and every one of the six published years, as <.1. Not one value has ever been published in it. That is a fact about what the state reports, not evidence that no such staff exist, and nothing here reconstructs the number by subtraction. This section is certificated staff only — the adults who hold a New Jersey certificate. The paraprofessionals, aides, clerical and service staff who make up a large share of the adults in a district are not here, because New Jersey collects no race and no sex for them at all: the non-certificated file has two measures and neither is a demographic one. This is not the district’s staff; it is the certificated part of it. Special Service, Administrators, Supervisors/Coordinators are reported below 20 FTE here, so the counts are printed and the shares are not. At that size one full-time equivalent moves a percentage by five points or more, and a share built on a handful of people-equivalents reads as a finding when it is arithmetic.

FTE is fractional reported workload, not a count of employees, not payroll and not a salary figure: 28.6 FTE is not 29 people, and nothing on this page supports a reading about staffing adequacy, quality, effectiveness or need. The district figure is a derived sum of the four reported role rows — New Jersey publishes no certificated district total. Row Certificated Staff 2026.zip#DISTRICT!1805 of NJDOE’s certificated staff file. How this data works →

Twenty-seven years of counting the staff

New Jersey has published a certificated staff count for this district in every school year from 1999-00 to 2025-26 — 27 editions, the longest run of anything on this site. It reported 21 in 1999-00 and 28.6 FTE in 2025-26. Those two numbers are not the same measurement, and the chart below does not join them.

Each stretch is one thing NJDOE was counting. Where the line stops and starts again, New Jersey changed what a staff member is, not how many it employed — the step at the rule is bookkeeping. Through 2007-08 the figure is whole people; from 2008-09 it is fractional full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts 0.5 and the number is not a count of employees. From 2019-20 NJDOE prints no total at all and this page sums the four position rows it does print, which is why that stretch begins where it does. Every figure is one day’s staffing.

Who the staff were, in New Jersey’s own categories

1999-00 – 2007-08WhiteBlackHispanicAsian / Pacific Isl.American Indian / Alaskan

2008-09 – 2017-18WhiteBlackHispanicAsianPacific Isl.OtherNative Am.

2018-19 – 2025-26WhiteBlackHispanicAsianPacific Isl.Two or more racesNative Am.

Three stretches, because New Jersey changed its race categories twice inside this record and the bands either side of a change are not the same bands. Through 2007-08 there were five categories, with Asian and Pacific Islander collected as one column and American Indian recorded with Alaskan; from 2008-09 there were seven, the seventh headed OTHER; and in 2018-19 that column was renamed Two or More Races at the same position, with no statement of whether the category changed. This page keeps them as separate stretches rather than joining them, because joining them would be a claim about who those people are that New Jersey has never made. One further rename is not drawn as a break: the fifth column is headed “Pacific Islander” through 2019-20 and “Hawaiian Native” after it, with the same seven categories either side. Shares are of the staff NJDOE reported for this district, in that edition’s own unit.

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2025-26, 84.7% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter line shows Ocean County, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How many students have an IEP

On October 15, 2024 NJDOE recorded 160 students in this district and 67 of them — 41.88% — had an individualized education program (IEP). That count is public school students only. Across New Jersey, adding up every district in the same file gives 17.35% on the same count.

Public school students only — 2019-20 onwardPublic and non-public together — a wider count of a wider group of children, on its own basis

About the oldest years. Rows marked † were matched to this district by NJDOE's district code, but our record of which districts existed does not reach back before August 2020. A match on those years confirms the code is in use today; it is not evidence that the entity behind it is the same district, and New Jersey has merged, split and regionalised districts across this span.

About the denominator. In most of these editions NJDOE headed the enrollment column General Ed. Enrollment or a variant of it, but the query the department published alongside the file counts every student aged 3 to 21 — students with IEPs included. The published rates only reconcile against that wider reading, so that is the denominator used here. Adding the IEP count back on would deflate every rate in the affected years.

Row 2025IDEA618PublicReporting_ClassificationRates.xlsx#District Rates!449 of NJDOE’s classification-rate workbook. The newest workbook states no as-of date of its own — its embedded title reads “School Year 2023-24”, which is the previous edition’s school year. The date used here is the one NJDOE states on the page that publishes the file; both are printed because the conflict is the publisher’s and we do not resolve it. How this data works →

Budget

Test scores

Growth measures how much students progressed over the year against peers who scored the same the year before — 50 is a typical year. In 2024-25, this district’s median growth percentile was 44 in English and 44 in math — NJ calls this “typical” growth.

In each panel the flat line is the proficiency boundary: levels 4–5 (met or exceeded) fill the area above it, levels 1–3 below — so a smaller reported share in levels 4–5 makes the area above the line shrink (it isn’t a misleading upward slope). Light = level 1 (did not yet meet expectations), dark = level 5 (exceeded); the % marks the proficient share at the first and last points. The first set of panels follows each grade across the years; the second lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, not linked individual students. Growth is the median Student Growth Percentile (50 = a typical year), reported only through grade 8. The NJSLA was not given in spring 2020 and was disrupted the next year. Source: NJ School Performance Reports.

Chronic absenteeism

In 2024-25, 37% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — up from 24.5% in 2016-17.

Chronic absenteeism — the share of students who missed 10% or more of the days they were enrolled (roughly 18 days across a full school year). The lighter line shows New Jersey, for comparison. The current workbook publishes four years of this measure; the years before them come from each earlier year’s own workbook, which publish the same figures wherever the two overlap. The statewide line starts in 2021-22, because that is the first edition in which NJDOE printed a statewide rate beside each district’s own. Points from 2018-19 and earlier are matched to this district by its state code; New Jersey’s organization record only reaches back to 2020-08-11, so for those years the code is verified and the identity behind it is not. Source: NJ School Performance Reports, 2015-16 through 2024-25.

Suspension here since 2017-18

New Jersey has published a district suspension figure in eight school years, 2017-18 through 2024-25. It published none before that: the 2015-16 edition has no district workbook at all and the 2016-17 one has no removals sheet in it. This district carries a figure in five of them, and four of those sit inside the part of the record New Jersey says can be compared. The two editions New Jersey excludes from that comparable record are shown here anyway, outside the line, in its own words.

Each point is the share of this district’s own students suspended at least once that school year — one student counted once however many times they were suspended. The dashed line is New Jersey. The line stops at 2018-19 and starts again at 2021-22. The two years in between are drawn as hollow marks inside the shaded band because NJDOE printed, inside both of those workbooks, that their discipline data may not be comparable with the years either side — its words are below. Schools statewide were shut for part of spring 2020 and much of 2020-21, and the fall in those two years is very largely a fall in the number of children in a building, not in what they did. A year with no mark is a year New Jersey did not give this district a number; the table has which kind of not-giving it was.

2019-20, in New Jersey’s own words. Due to school closures in spring 2020, discipline data for the 2019-2020 school year may not be comparable to prior or future school years and NJDOE recommends caution in making comparisons.NJDOE, sheet “Important 2019-2020 Notes” inside the 2019-20 district and State data file. The sheet is not linked from the download page and nothing in the numbers hints that it exists.

2020-21, in New Jersey’s own words. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, discipline data for the 2020-2021 school year may not be comparable to prior or future school years and NJDOE recommends caution in making comparisons.NJDOE, sheet “Important 2020-2021 Notes” inside the 2020-21 district and State data file. The sheet is not linked from the download page and nothing in the numbers hints that it exists.

New Jersey withheld this district’s figure in 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2021-22, printing * where the number would be. That is the state declining to publish, not a year without suspensions. It stopped withholding this row after 2021-22: from 2022-23 onward every district that has a row has a number in it. Where the figure sits in the file changed in 2023-24. Through 2022-23 the sheet had one row per district and this was that row; from 2023-24 the sheet is one row per student group and this is the group called Districtwide, then All Students. The quantity did not change and no break is drawn there — NJDOE prints it under the same column name, AnySusp_Count, in 2017-18 and again in 2024-25, with one edition in between spelling it #StudentsAnySuspension and then changing back.

What has a record, and how long

What is not drawn here

There is no trend by student group, and this page does not draw one. New Jersey has published suspension broken out by race, sex, income and disability exactly twice — 2023-24 and 2024-25 — and it changed the categories between them. Asian and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander were separate groups in the first year and one merged group in the second; Hispanic became Hispanic/Latino; the district total was called Districtwide and is now All Students. Seven labels came through unchanged. Two points would not be a trend even if all fifteen had, and the two race categories cannot be added back together for the earlier year because either of them may be withheld. The section below shows the current year in full. When New Jersey publishes a third edition on the categories it uses now, this becomes a series and gets a chart; until then it is two years, and they are shown as two years.

The same boundary is why only suspension has a line above it. Students referred to police and students involved in an incident leading to arrest are published by student and by grade only from 2023-24, on sheets that did not exist before — and the arrest sheet names its own columns ArrestedCount in one edition and PoliceCount in the next. An arrest figure does appear on the removals sheet from 2017-18 to 2022-23, but joining it to the later sheet would be this site deciding that two differently-named columns on two different sheets are one measure, which is exactly the decision the publisher declined to make.

On reading one district back to 2017-18. The evidence that a district code names this district begins 2020-08-11. For the editions before that, a code that resolves is a verified code rather than a verified district: it says the number is a current NJDOE organization and says nothing about what that code named in that school year. New Jersey merges and regionalizes districts, so read the early end of this line as the record filed under this code, not as a promise that the same schools were inside it.

These are reported removals — a record of decisions adults made, one row per school year in eight separate publications. A district that suspends less may be behaving differently, recording differently, or reporting differently, and this file cannot tell a reader which. Nothing here is a safety measure or a measure of school quality, and no figure on this page is compared with a figure from any other dataset on it. Assembled from the eight district workbooks, most recently the 2024-25 School Performance Report data file. How this data works →

Which students are disciplined here

New Jersey publishes, for each student group and each grade, the share of that group’s own students who were suspended at least once, referred to police, or involved in an incident that led to an arrest. These are three separate administrative acts, kept apart here and never added together: a police notification is not an arrest, and none of the three is a measure of safety. Of the 33 group figures on this page, 0 carry a rate, 14 are a published zero — the state saying nobody, not the state saying nothing — and 19 were withheld.

Each dot is one student group’s own suspension rate — the share of that group’s students, not its share of the district’s suspensions. Groups New Jersey did not publish keep their row and carry no dot, with the reason written in place. That matters here more than in most charts: withholding runs inversely to group size, so a chart of only the published groups would redraw discipline as something that happens to the largest groups. A smaller dot is a rate the state published on one to four students: it is a real published figure and it is drawn in place, but a rate built on that few students moves a great deal with one student more or less — read it with the headcount printed beside it, not on its own. The hollow ring is the district as a whole.

1.6% a rate the state calculatedNone a printed zero — nobodyFewer than 5 a masked headcount of 0–4 — often a zeroWithheld below the state’s reporting thresholda smaller dot a published rate resting on 1–4 students — thin, not withheld

By grade

New Jersey published nothing at all for American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian / Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, Non-binary or undesignated and Two or More Races in this district. That is a statement about how few students are in the group, not about how they behave. The groups overlap — a student can be counted as Hispanic, economically disadvantaged and classified as having a disability at once — so these rows never add up to the district row, and no ratio between two of them is computed here. Two groups withheld at different rates cannot be compared by division.

On the arrest column. NJDOE names the underlying fields PoliceCount and PolicePercent while its own layout defines them as all incidents leading to arrest — the defect it records is Source field says Police; layout defines all incidents leading to arrest. It is shown as published and not reconciled against the separate police-notification column above it.

These are reported incidents and the responses adults chose, and they measure how a district records and refers at least as much as how its students behave: a district that documents diligently and calls police readily will look worse here than a district that handles the same behaviour informally. Nothing on this page is a safety score, a crime rate, or a measure of school quality, and none of the three measures may be added to the others. One school year, 2024-25, so there is no trend. Row Database_DistrictStateDetail.xlsx#RemovalsStudentGroupGrade!10249:AnySusp_Pct of the 2024-25 School Performance Report data file. How this data works →

How the state has judged this district

Everything below this line is a different instrument. Above, one weighted number and a rank inside a group of similar schools, under ESSA. Below, a pass-or-fail determination the state made about each student group, on tests that no longer exist, under a federal waiver that has since ended. The two regimes meet without a gap — 2015-16 is the last waiver year and 2016-17 the first ESSA one — and there is still no fair comparison between them, so this page does not draw one.

The waiver record. Annual editions between 2012 and 2016, most recent first. Read each band against itself and not against the others — the state changed what it measured, and how, twice inside those five years.

New Jersey’s ESEA Flexibility waiver ended after the 2016 edition, and the archive bundles for 2017 and 2018 return 404 on every build of the source release. That bounds the waiver record; it says nothing about the ESSA record above, which runs from 2016-17 without a break the state did not itself declare.

The regime changes here. Above this line the state judged participation alone; below it, participation and performance against an individually set target, on a different test. A determination on one side of this line cannot be compared with one on the other, so nothing on this page draws a line through it.

The waiver determinations are what New Jersey printed on this district’s annual ESEA accountability profile, kept exactly as printed and corrected from nothing. Each edition’s glyphs are read against that edition’s own legend, because the same asterisk means different things in different years. Editions this district does not appear in are simply absent here; no year is inferred from its neighbours. Source: NJDOE’s Title I accountability archive, 2012–2016.

How the ESSA record works →  ·  How the 2012–2016 waiver record works →

Schools in this district

The district’s 1 schools on record. Open any for its full profile.

Every school the district has reported, with its grade span and its most recent fall head count; a school with no current-year count is shown as closed after its last one. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.