On October 21, 2005, the New Jersey Department of Education announced that the Freehold Regional High School District had for the second consecutive year failed to meet the minimum education standards promulgated under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group 'GH', the third-highest of eight groupings. The district holds events such as Battle of the Classes/Champions, which pits each of the six schools against each other in a series of events.Īs of the 2014-15 school year, the district and its six schools had an enrollment of 11,310 students and 770.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.7:1. The Battle of Monmouth was fought in June 1778 in what has been preserved as Monmouth Battlefield State Park, which is in Freehold Township and Manalapan Township.Each of the six high schools is located in their respective communities: Howell High School resides in Howell Township, Manalapan High School in Manalapan Township, Marlboro High School in Marlboro Township, Colts Neck High School in Colts Neck Township, and Freehold Township High School & Freehold (Borough) High School are both in Freehold. Freehold town was formed within the township on March 25, 1869, and formally separated when it was reconstituted as a borough on April 15, 1919, including additional portions of the township.

Additional portions formed Millstone Township (February 28, 1844), Jackson Township (March 6, 1844), Atlantic Township (Februnow Colts Neck Township), Marlboro Township (February 17, 1848) and Manalapan Township (March 9, 1848). 1731), so some wills and official records following the split referred to 'Lower Freehold Township' although the official name has always been Freehold Township. Portions of Freehold Township were taken to form Upper Freehold Township ( c. Freehold Township was first formed on October 31, 1693, and was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

Map of freehold township high school