SCHOOL

The Holmdel Township Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Holmdel Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey United States.

NJ Transit and Academy Bus provide service in the area.

TRANSPORTATION

Ferry service is available through the Sea Streak service in nearby Highlands, a trip that involves about a 20-minute drive from Holmdel Township to reach the departing terminal. Sea Streak offers ferry service to NYC with trips to Pier (on the East River at Wall Street) and East 35th Street in Manhattan. The ferry service also offers seasonal travel, such as to the public beaches on Sandy Hook, baseball games at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, trips to Broadway matinees, Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, college football games at West Point, fall foliage in the Hudson Valley, and to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, among other excursions.

PARK & RECREATION

Holmdel Park initially established in 1962, covers 565 acres and includes the Historic Longstreet Farm, which offers a recreations of farm life in the 1980’s, along with athletic facilities and other amenities. The park also has the Holmdel Arboretum (formally the David C. Shaw Arboretum), covering 22 acres and established in 1963, which offers examples of the trees, shrubs, and plant life of Monmouth County.