Point Pleasant Boro High School student scores from 1999 reflected 88.1 percent passing the high school assessment test, ranking the school eighth in Ocean County and 191st in the state. There are 14 high schools in the county and 309 in the state. The Ocean Road School ranked 14th. At Nellie Bennett, 83.6 percent passed the mathematics segment and at Ocean Road School, 80.9 percent. In the language portion, nearly half of the fourth-graders at Nellie Bennett and more than 60 percent at Ocean Road were in the lowest of the three scoring categories.
Science is the third portion of the test.
Teachers are undergoing in-house training classes to help pupils read and write better. They are being trained in areas including strength in word choice, sentence fluency, content organization and development of ideas in content. In this district teachers say they keep busy all year long striving for new means to better educate the roughly 3,120 students. Attending the summer workshop series, for example, keeps them abreast of changes in state curriculum standards, familiarizes them with new teaching trends and enhances staff development in a whole host of subjects, according to Lorraine Griffin, president of the Point Pleasant Education Association and a language arts teacher at the Memorial School. In turn, what teachers learn during the summer trickles down to their students in the fall, Griffin said.