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Lakewood Information
Lakewood Township is a Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of
60,352. Lakewood is an urban center serving Northern Ocean and Southern Monmouth
Counties.
Lakewood is one of the hubs of Orthodox Judaism and is home to one of the
largest yeshivas in the world. The large Orthodox population wields considerable
political clout in Lakewood Township, commanding a block of about 10,000 votes.
Lakewood CDP (2000 Census population of 36,065), Leisure Village (1,785) and
Leisure Village East (1,594) are census-designated places and unincorporated
areas located within Lakewood Township.
Lakewood was known as one of the New York City region's winter resorts at the
turn of the 1900's. This was due to a pocket of climate that was 5 to 10 degrees
warmer than the City. Its Lake Carasaljo and surrounding pine tree made for a
picturesque holiday. The Rockefeller family had an estate which has been turned
into Ocean County Park. The Jay Gould Estate is now Georgian Court College.
Parts of The Amityville Horror was also filmed there.
The Lakewood School District is broken up into three different stages of
schooling. (2004-05 enrollment data is from the National Center for Education
Statistics). Students from K-6 attend one of the district's four Elementary
Schools: Oak Street School, with 941 students; Spruce Street School, with 637
students; Clifton Avenue School, with 763 students; and Ella G. Clarke School,
with 963 students (including pre-K). In grades 7 and 8 children attend Lakewood
Middle School, which has 739 students. For grades 9-12 students attend Lakewood
High School, with an enrollment of 1,317 students.
Georgian Court University is a private university located on the shores of Lake
Carasaljo.
There are many Yeshivas and Jewish day schools catering to the Orthodox Jewish
community, with thousands of children enrolled. Beis Medrash Gevoha, the largest
Yeshiva (Rabbinical Academy) in North America, is also located in Lakewood. In
addition, there are at least two Christian schools in Lakewood - the
non-denominational Calvary Academy, and the Roman Catholic affiliated Holy
Family School. The former serves grades K-12, while the latter serves youth from
pre-school through 8th grade.