Alice Costello Elementary School

Alice Costello Elementary School is an elementary campus of cozy scale in BROOKLAWN, New Jersey, overseen by Brooklawn Public School District, caters to 277 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 405.

Operationally, Alice Costello Elementary School answers to Brooklawn Public School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Alice Costello Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 30% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. Compared to Camden County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Alice Costello Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Alice Costello Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Camden County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Alice Costello Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Camden County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Camden County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), Alice Costello Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Gloucester City High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alice Costello Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alice Costello Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 302 students in 2018 compared to 277 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 16% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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