The district serves students for pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from the communities of Aberdeen Township and Matawan Borough.
From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
[5] The Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District Central Offices are located at 1 Crest Way, in Aberdeen.
In 2015, New Jersey Superior Court judge David F. Bauman dismissed a case filed against the district filed by a student of the district and by the American Humanist Association that argued that a discriminatory climate was created by the inclusion of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance recited by students, making non-believers "second-class citizens" by elevating religious belief.
[29][30] Seats on the district's board of education are allocated based on the population of the constituent municipalities, with six assigned to Aberdeen Township and three to Matawan.