Constructed at a cost of $2 million (equivalent to $ million in ) and designed to accommodate up to 1,260 students, the district constructed its own high school that opened in September 1959 for grades 7–11 with an enrollment of 900. Students in twelfth grade that year attended
Manasquan High School, which had served Wall Township as part of a
sending/receiving relationship that was ended due to overcrowding at the Manasquan school. The district had been classified by the
New Jersey Department of Education as being in
District Factor Group "GH", the third-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common
socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J. ==Schools==