These Are The Highest Ranked Public Schools In Ocean County

With the New Jersey State Department of Education releasing their scores and rankings for every public school in the state, parents have a lot of data that they can pour over to see how their kids' schools match up with others in New Jersey.

There's a whole lot of stuff to dig through, and you can organize all of it by county, score (0 - 100), and percentile over at NJ.com, but in a nutshell, here are the top Ocean County schools overall:

• OCVTS - Marine Academy of Technology & Environmental Science - 95.75
• OCVTS - Performing Arts Academy - 88.45
• Bay Head Elementary - 84.81
• Island Heights Elementary - 84.15
• Elms Elementary School (Jackson) - 64.7

The highest ranked high schools in the county (aside from the previously mentioned OCVTS academies) include:

• Point Pleasant Borough High School - 55.45
• Point Pleasant Beach High School - 54.06
• Manchester Township High School - 48.79
• New Egypt High School - 47.75
• Brick Township High School - 45.77

The rankings come from a number of data points. For high schools, officials looked at:

• Four-year graduation rate: 20%
• Five-year graduation rate: 20%
• Progress toward English language proficiency: 20%
• English proficiency: 15%
• Math proficiency: 15%
• Chronic absenteeism: 10%

For elementary and middle schools, the numbers shook out like this:

• English language arts growth: 20%
• Math growth: 20%
• Progress toward English language proficiency: 20%
• English language arts proficiency: 15%
• Math proficiency: 15%
• Chronic absenteeism: 10%

You can get a lot more information (and I do mean a lot more) from the sortable and downloadable list over at NJ.com by clicking here.