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Public school / Primary

Wayside Elementary School

Ocean, New Jersey

NCES ID
341206004068
District
Township of Ocean School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Wayside Elementary School is a public primary school in Ocean, New Jersey, run by Township of Ocean School District. It enrols 574 students — the 29183rd 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

574students

29183rd nationally, tied with 90

Teachers

62.0FTE

8957th nationally, tied with 373

Students per teacher

9.3students

6765th nationally, tied with 300

Free or reduced-price lunch

26.7%percent

72203rd nationally, tied with 75

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 Township of Ocean 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. 1Ocean Township High School1,021 students
  2. 2Township of Ocean Intermediate School890 students
  3. 3Wayside Elementary School574 students
  4. 4Ocean Township Elementary School385 students
  5. 5Wanamassa Elementary School322 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+23.3%
  • Teachers+63.2%
  • Students per teacher−17.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−2.6%
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Where this sits

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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.