{"id":8607,"date":"2016-05-31T03:10:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2016-05-31T03:12:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:12:17","slug":"percentages-of-low-income-students-in-brick-schools-vary-greatly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/05\/percentages-of-low-income-students-in-brick-schools-vary-greatly\/","title":{"rendered":"Percentages of Low-Income Students in Brick Schools Vary Greatly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brick Township\u2019s real estate offerings include one of the widest ranges of options in New Jersey, from $60,000 condominiums to $5 million oceanfront estates. That economic reality is\u00a0reflected in the township\u2019s school system, a recent report from the state shows.<\/p>\n

Included in the state Department of Education\u2019s annual School Performance Reports for the 2014-15 school year are statistics on economic diversity and even the languages spoken at home by students\u2019 families. What the reports show is a student body \u2013 depending on the school \u2013 that includes students from all walks of life.<\/p>\n

Warren H. Wolf Elementary School has the highest percentage of economically disadvantaged students in the district, with a full 59 percent of the study body categorized\u00a0that way. In state parlance, \u201ceconomically disadvantaged\u201d means the student is eligible for free or reduced price lunch due to the low income level of the student\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

As the township\u2019s student body becomes more mixed at the\u00a0middle and high school levels, elementary school reports are the best to glean information on the economic divide. The data shows that, while the Warren Wolf school is a relative outlier in terms of percentages, other schools have a significant share of their student bodies coming from economically disadvantaged homes, doubling that of other schools in the district.<\/p>\n

Next to Warren Wolf, Osbornville Elementary School has the next-highest percentage of economically disadvantaged students, at 47.9 percent. Veterans Memorial Elementary School\u00a0is similar, with 41.5 percent, and fourth is Emma Havens Young, with 41.1 percent.<\/p>\n

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Economic disadvantage in Brick schools. (Chart: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n

At a midpoint is Lanes Mill Elementary School, with 33.8 percent of students coming from low-income families, and Drum Point Road, with 31.7 percent.<\/p>\n

The district\u2019s two remaining elementary schools have much lower rates of economic disadvantage. Students at Midstreams Elementary School were the least likely to be economically disadvantaged \u2013 20.2 percent of the student body is so classified \u2013 with a similar percentage of Herbertsville Elementary School student, at 21.2 percent.<\/p>\n

Economic disadvantage, the data shows, does not always translate to the number of children who come from immigrant families that speak a language other than English at home. The school with the lowest\u00a0percentage of students from English speaking families was Osbornville, at 82.9 percent, followed by Emma Havens Young, at 87 percent. All of the remaining schools ranged from 97 to 99 percent of students coming from English-speaking homes.<\/p>\n

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