Atlantic Avenue

Located at 21 East Atlantic Avenue, in HADDON HEIGHTS, New Jersey, Atlantic Avenue is a minimally staffed elementary school that enrolls 125 students (grades pre-K through 2), part of HADDON HEIGHTS School District. Enrollment runs roughly 69% below the state mean of about 405.

Within HADDON HEIGHTS School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,457 students, Atlantic Avenue is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Atlantic Avenue logs that nearly all students (83%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Camden County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Atlantic Avenue reports 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Camden County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Camden County shows median household income runs about $88,755, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Camden County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), Atlantic Avenue is one campus in the mix.

Seventh Avenue is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Atlantic Avenue.

Atlantic Avenue operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 166 students in 2018 compared to 125 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 10% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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