Education
The Middletown Township Public School District serves students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade and consists of seventeen public schools. Schools in the district (with 2010-11 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are twelve K-5 elementary schools (except as indicated) — Bayview (407 students), Fairview (328), Harmony (PreK-5; 479), Leonardo (252), Lincroft (509), Middletown Village (462), Navesink (285), New Monmouth (PreK-5; 486), Nut Swamp (549), Ocean Avenue (295), Port Monmouth (263) and River Plaza (313) — three grade 6-8 middle schools — Bayshore Middle School (698), Thompson Middle School (952) and Thorne Middle School (757) — and two high schools for grades 9-12, Middletown High School North (1,605) and Middletown High School South (1,443). Four elementary schools feed into each of the three middle schools.
Middletown also hosts two public magnet schools, High Technology High School, on the property of Brookdale Community College, located in the Lincroft section of town, and the Marine Academy of Science and Technology located on Sandy Hook, which are part of the Monmouth County Vocational School District.
Along with public education, Middletown Township is home to two private high schools. Christian Brothers Academy is an all-boys College preparatory school with a focus on Christian education run by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, located in Lincroft. Mater Dei High School is a four-year Catholic coeducational high school located in the New Monmouth section and operates under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton.
There are also three private grammar schools, Saint Mary in New Monmouth and Saint Leo the Great School in Lincroft (both of which are part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton), as well as Oak Hill Academy in Lincroft.
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