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Land O’Pines Elementary School

Howell Township · Monmouth County · Elementary school
Grades K–5
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

These measures follow the same rule on every school page, not a ranking of this school’s biggest changes. Each row names its evidence dates; trend rows do not describe every year in between.

These are descriptive measures from statewide NJDOE datasets, not a quality rating or an explanation of cause. Proficiency, attendance, and graduation figures use All Students; subgroup patterns may differ.

Enrollment over time

In 2025-26 it enrolled 509 students. That is 280 fewer than in 1998-99 (789) — the school has shrunk.

students 0200400600800 5091998200320082013201820232025

Total students enrolled each fall. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 1998-99 and 2025-26 was White students — 78% then, 56% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 77%28%56%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianTwo or moreNative Am.

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 school changed substantially.

That’s the fourth-largest shift among the district’s eight elementary schools — larger than 95% of Monmouth County elementary schools. That roughly tracks the district overall (12.3) — a district-wide change more than a school-specific one. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Hispanic +14.9·White −14.1·Black −1.2

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 →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2025-26, 31.4% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 0204031.4%31.2%31.2%1998200320082013201820232025
This schooldistrict overalldistrict elementary schools

Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter lines show the district overall and the district elementary schools, 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.

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 school’s median growth percentile was 48.5 in English and 54 in math — NJ calls this “typical” growth.

median student growth percentile · 50 = typical50ELA48.5Math54
1 · did not meet2 · partially met3 · approached4 · met5 · exceeded

English language arts: 44.9% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 53%).

ELA — NJDOE-published school-wide All Students rows, not calculated from grade panels.
School yearMet or exceededValid scoresTest participationNJ statewide
2021-22Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores49.0%
2022-23Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores51.3%
2023-24Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores52.2%
2024-2544.9%27699.3%53.0%

Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →

By grade, year to year

Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.

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Math: 43.9% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 42%).

Math — NJDOE-published school-wide All Students rows, not calculated from grade panels.
School yearMet or exceededValid scoresTest participationNJ statewide
2021-22Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores36.0%
2022-23Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores38.2%
2023-24Not reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scoresNot reported — Fewer than 10 valid scores40.2%
2024-2543.9%27899.3%42.0%

Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →

By grade, year to year

Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.

Grade 3
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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, 14.4% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — up from 7.3% in 2016-17.

% chronically absent 01530notcollectedthis year15.2%14.4%14.4%20162018202020222024
This schooldistrict overallNew Jersey

† New Jersey says these years are not comparable with the ones beside them

  • 2020-21 — in-person and remote days differed. The requirement to report status in meeting annual ESSA targets for 2020-2021 was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report state averages and whether state averages were met for 2020-2021. Additionally, because the number of days students spent in in-person and remote learning environments during the school year differed, the NJDOE recommends caution in comparing 2020-2021 attendance data between schools and districts and to prior or future school years. NJDOE 2020-21 workbook notes sheet.

2019-20 is blank because New Jersey collected no attendance data that year, not because nobody was absent. The requirement to report on chronic absenteeism and related accountability measures for the 2019-2020 school year was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report on chronic absenteeism and other attendance data for 2019-2020. Tables showing attendance data will be hidden in the 2019-2020 reports. NJDOE 2019-20 workbook notes sheet.

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 lines show the district overall and 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 school’s own. Points from 2018-19 and earlier are matched to this school 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.

How the state has judged this school

2021-22 – 2024-25 · the ESSA record

New Jersey has published a summative rating for Land O’Pines Elementary School in one school year under ESSA. The rating is a percentile inside a group of schools NJDOE considers comparable — where the school placed among them, not a score and not a grade.

There is one rating here, for 2024-25. One rating is a reading, not a direction.

Every ESSA accountability workbook that carries a row for Land O’Pines Elementary School, most recent first, exactly as NJDOE published it.
School yearPercentile in groupSummative scoreNJDOE’s groupIdentification
2024-2538.5443.23ElementaryNot an identification year
2023-24Not ranked this yearElementaryNot an identification year
2022-23Not ranked this yearElementaryNo comprehensive or targeted status published for this school
2021-22Not ranked this yearElementaryNo comprehensive or targeted status published for this school

Inside 2024-25 · what produced the most recent rating

For 2024-25 New Jersey weighted six indicators to add to 100 and gave this school 43.23 of those 100 points. It then ranked that total against the 1,659 New Jersey schools it grouped as Elementary for the year, which puts this school above 38.54% of them. That ranking is a place in a line-up of similar schools, not a grade and not a status.

points of the 100-point summative score0255075100ELA proficiency4.89 of 15 pointsMath proficiency6.77 of 15 pointsELA growth9.85 of 20 pointsMath growth11.23 of 20 pointsProgress toward English proficiency8.23 of 20 pointsStudents not chronically absent2.26 of 10 pointsSummative score43.23 of 100 points

Each bar’s light track is the points that indicator was worth at this school; the filled part is the points it earned. NJDOE converts each result into a 0–100 indicator score — built from the standardised results of each student group large enough to report, not from the school-wide number alone — then multiplies that score by the weight. The tracks add to 100 and the filled bars add to the summative score, within the publisher’s own rounding.

Every indicator NJDOE applied to this school, exactly as the 2024-25 workbook published it.
IndicatorResultIndicator scoreWeightPoints
ELA proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state ELA test44.9%32.6215%4.89
Math proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state math test43.9%45.1515%6.77
ELA growththe school’s median student growth percentile in ELA48.549.2420%9.85
Math growththe school’s median student growth percentile in math5456.1620%11.23
Progress toward English proficiencyNJDOE’s published Progress Toward ELP rate, for English learners34.1%41.1320%8.23
Students not chronically absentstudents who were not chronically absent — 100 minus the chronic-absenteeism rate, so a higher number is better85.6%22.5810%2.26

Four-year graduation rate, Five-year graduation rate, Six-year graduation rate, High school persistence are not part of the calculation for a school NJDOE groups as Elementary.

NJDOE’s Targeted Summary published no student-group flag for this school for 2026-27.

These are policy-defined values: which indicators count, and how much each counts, is set by New Jersey’s ESSA plan, not by any measure of school quality. The weights are specific to this school — an indicator that drops out shifts weight onto the rest, so the same indicator is worth different points at different schools. The workbooks measure 2024-25 and were published on April 2, 2026; 2024-25 was not a year New Jersey identified schools for comprehensive or targeted support, so these files carry no CSI or ATSI status. These weights are 2024-25’s: the indicator set and the weighting have both moved across the eight editions above, and for some school types they moved in this one. Row 2024_25_Accountability_Workbook_File_Comprehensive_Support_and_Improvement.xlsx#Summative!1356:AU of the workbook, and the method in NJDOE’s accountability technical guide.

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.

2015 – 2016 · participation only, on PARCC

New Jersey set no performance target and published no performance determination in these two editions — not for this school, and not for any school in the state. The tests changed to PARCC and the profiles print five columns where the earlier ones print seven, so what the state judged here is test participation and, below it, graduation and attendance. These two years are comparable with each other. Nothing here is a performance verdict, and the missing column is the state’s decision, not a gap in this record. YES* means something else here than it did through 2014. With no performance column to sit in, it appears in the participation column and marks a group whose participation rate was met with participation averaging applied.

2015 preliminary

New Jersey labelled this edition preliminary, and never published a final one. A dash means the group was below the state’s own minimum size — 40 students for participation, 30 for performance — so nothing was determined for it at all.

What New Jersey determined about Land O’Pines Elementary School in the 2015 edition. There is no performance column because the state published none.
Student groupEnglish Language ArtsMathematics
Participation% meeting standardsParticipation% meeting standards
SchoolwideMet, with participation averaging applied YES*63.1%195 scoredMet, with participation averaging applied YES*51.8%195 scored
American IndianToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
AsianToo few students -70%10 scoredToo few students -70%10 scored
BlackToo few students -43.8%16 scoredToo few students -37.5%16 scored
Economically DisadvantagedMissed NO34%44 scoredMissed NO27.3%44 scored
HispanicToo few students -40.7%27 scoredToo few students -25.9%27 scored
Limited English ProficiencyToo few students -0%1 scoredToo few students -0%1 scored
Students with DisabilitiesMet, with participation averaging applied YES*28.8%45 scoredMet, with participation averaging applied YES*22.2%45 scored
Two or More RacesToo few students -100%1 scoredToo few students -0%1 scored
WhiteMet, with participation averaging applied YES*68.8%141 scoredMet, with participation averaging applied YES*57.4%141 scored

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2014 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.

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.

2012 – 2014 · progress targets, on NJASK and HSPA

Each group large enough to score was measured against a progress target set for it individually, on NJASK and HSPA. These three years are comparable with each other. Most cells are empty by design — a group below the state’s minimum size got no determination at all. YES* never means the target was met. In these editions it marks a group that missed the printed target and was credited inside a 95% confidence interval, and it appears in the performance column.

2014 unmarked

This edition asserts nothing about whether it is preliminary or final, so neither does this page. A dash means the group was below the state’s own minimum size — 40 students for participation, 30 for performance — so nothing was determined for it at all.

What New Jersey determined about Land O’Pines Elementary School in the 2014 edition, group by group and subject by subject, exactly as it printed it.
Student groupEnglish Language ArtsMathematics
Participation% proficientPerformanceParticipation% proficientPerformance
SchoolwideMet YES76.1%247 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 80.8Met YES87.1%247 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 90
American IndianToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
AsianToo few students -100%13 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -100%13 scoredToo few students to determine -
BlackToo few students -76.9%13 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -92.3%13 scoredToo few students to determine -
Economically DisadvantagedMet YES52.6%59 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 60Met YES67.8%59 scoredMissed its target NOtarget 80.7
HispanicToo few students -46.4%28 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -60.7%28 scoredToo few students to determine -
Limited English ProficiencyToo few students -0%3 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%3 scoredToo few students to determine -
Students with DisabilitiesMet YES46.3%54 scoredMissed its target NOtarget 64.8Met YES74.1%54 scoredMissed its target NOtarget 88.3
Two or More RacesToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
WhiteMet YES78.8%193 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 83.8Met YES89.6%193 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 90

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2013 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.

2013 final

New Jersey labelled this edition final. A dash means the group was below the state’s own minimum size — 40 students for participation, 30 for performance — so nothing was determined for it at all.

What New Jersey determined about Land O’Pines Elementary School in the 2013 edition, group by group and subject by subject, exactly as it printed it.
Student groupEnglish Language ArtsMathematics
Participation% proficientPerformanceParticipation% proficientPerformance
SchoolwideMet YES80.5%261 scoredMet its target YEStarget 78.6Met YES90%260 scoredAt or above the statewide 90% goal MET GOALtarget 90
American IndianToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
AsianToo few students -100%11 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -100%11 scoredToo few students to determine -
BlackToo few students -66.7%12 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -58.3%12 scoredToo few students to determine -
Economically DisadvantagedMet YES65.2%46 scoredMet its target YEStarget 55.5Met YES82.6%46 scoredMet its target YEStarget 78.6
HispanicToo few students -48%25 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -80%25 scoredToo few students to determine -
Limited English ProficiencyToo few students -33.3%3 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -33.3%3 scoredToo few students to determine -
Students with DisabilitiesMet YES53.1%49 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 60.9Met YES83.7%49 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 87
Two or More RacesToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
WhiteMet YES84%213 scoredMet its target YEStarget 82Met YES92.4%212 scoredAt or above the statewide 90% goal MET GOALtarget 90

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2012 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.

2012 preliminary

New Jersey labelled this edition preliminary, and never published a final one. A dash means the group was below the state’s own minimum size — 40 students for participation, 30 for performance — so nothing was determined for it at all.

What New Jersey determined about Land O’Pines Elementary School in the 2012 edition, group by group and subject by subject, exactly as it printed it.
Student groupLanguage Arts LiteracyMathematics
Participation% proficientPerformanceParticipation% proficientPerformance
SchoolwideMet YES74%277 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 76.4Met YES86.7%277 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 90
American IndianToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
AsianToo few students -89.5%19 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -100%19 scoredToo few students to determine -
BlackToo few students -45.5%11 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -63.6%11 scoredToo few students to determine -
Economically DisadvantagedMet YES64%50 scoredMet its target YEStarget 51Met YES74%50 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 76.5
HispanicToo few students -66.7%21 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -76.2%21 scoredToo few students to determine -
Limited English ProficiencyToo few students -25%4 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -75%4 scoredToo few students to determine -
Students with DisabilitiesMet YES49.3%65 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 57Met YES67.7%65 scoredMissed its target NOtarget 85.7
Two or More RacesToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -Too few students -0%0 scoredToo few students to determine -
WhiteMet YES74.8%226 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 80.2Met YES87.6%226 scoredMissed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 90

The waiver determinations are what New Jersey printed on this school’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 school 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 →

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →