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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school

Lillian M. Dunfee Elementary

Barnegat, New Jersey

NCES ID
341647004564
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Lillian M. Dunfee Elementary is a public school in Barnegat, New Jersey, run by Barnegat Township School District. It enrols 301 students — the 65460th largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

301students

65460th nationally, tied with 137

Teachers

40.0FTE

24697th nationally, tied with 1,372

Students per teacher

7.5students

3351st nationally, tied with 144

Free or reduced-price lunch

28.2%percent

71036th nationally, tied with 82

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Barnegat Township School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Barnegat High School983 students
  2. 2Cecil S. Collins Elementary784 students
  3. 3Russell O. Brackman Middle School579 students
  4. 4Robert L. Horbelt Elementary School500 students
  5. 5Joseph T. Donahue Elementary School485 students
  6. 6Lillian M. Dunfee Elementary301 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New Jersey median across 2,585 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−35.3%
  • Teachers+5.3%
  • Students per teacher−33.6%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+2.9%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.