Enrollment
305
Elementary
DISTRICT 263 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BARRINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340117001308
Avon Elementary School
862 MERCER DR, HADDONFIELD, NJ 08033 · (856) 547-6632 · Camden County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL305 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
102 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 13 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (60).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Avon Elementary School→Woodland Middle School
Based on grade levels within Barrington School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
47.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
49.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.7% | 49.5% |
| 2023-24 | 45.5% | 47.3% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Avon Elementary School
Avon Elementary School's state test result (47.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avon Elementary School this school | 305 | 33.4% | 47.5% |
| Broad Street Elementary School GIBBSTOWN | 290 | 32.8% | 30.4% |
| Oak Valley Elementary School WENONAH | 337 | 33.5% | 36.8% |
| Main Road School NEWFIELD | 345 | 32.2% | 42.3% |
| Oaklyn Public School OAKLYN | 273 | 29.7% | 40.7% |
| Pohatcong Township School PHILLIPSBURG | 318 | 31.4% | 37.2% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Avon Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Camden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #582 of 1,290 | #35 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #593 of 1,319 ▲ 10 | #35 of 85 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #774 of 1,319 ▲ 5 | #45 of 85 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 305 | #1,085 of 1,562 | #59 of 95 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #90 of 1,390 | #8 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.1% | #891 of 1,392 | #57 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.4% | #803 of 1,481 | #51 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.0% | #426 of 798 | #18 of 37 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
305
-7 (-2%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 257
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 8.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 305 | 35.3 | 8.6:1 | 33% (102) |
| 2023-24 | 297 | 36.3 | 8.2:1 | 37% (111) |
| 2022-23 | 310 | 36.3 | 8.5:1 | 26% (80) |
| 2020-21 | 312 | 35 | 8.9:1 | 22% (69) |
| 2017-18 | 339 | 27.5 | 12.3:1 | 26% (87) |
| 2015-16 | 364 | 24 | 15.2:1 | 24% (88) |
| 2010-11 | 357 | 18 | 19.8:1 | 23% (83) |
| 2000-01 | 253 | 13 | 19.5:1 | 17% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 257 | 14 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Avon Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (339 to 305); teachers up 28% (27.5 to 35.3).
About Avon Elementary School
In HADDONFIELD, New Jersey, part of Camden County, Avon Elementary School is an elementary school. The grade span is pre-K through 4, and enrollment is 305 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New Jersey) has about 405 students.
Barrington School District operates 2 schools. Combined enrollment is 525 students.
Roughly 71% of students at Avon Elementary School are White. Other groups make up 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Black, and 3% Asian. County-wide, 55% of Camden County residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 47% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 8.6:1, with 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is lower than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Avon Elementary School is 33%. On average, public schools in Camden County report 50%.
Avon Elementary School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 49% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at Avon Elementary School are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (47.5% actual, 47.9% predicted).
Within Camden County, the median household income is $88,755, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. In all, Camden County has 158 public schools and roughly 82,104 students.
Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Avon Elementary School at 7th of 8.
NCES assigns Avon Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 312 to 305.
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Camden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
527,257
Census ACS
Median income
$88,755
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
158
82,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Barrington School District
- Woodland Middle SchoolMiddle · 220 students
Other schools in HADDONFIELD
- Haddonfield Memorial High SchoolHigh · 827 students
- Haddonfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 631 students
- Central SchoolElementary · 447 students
- J. Fithian Tatem SchoolElementary · 433 students
- Elizabeth Haddon SchoolElementary · 402 students
- Van Sciver Elementary SchoolElementary · 345 students
Other Avon Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Avon Elementary. Avon Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 7.
- Avon Elementary SchoolAVON, NJ · 112 students
- AVON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLAVON PARK, FL · 503 students
- AVON ELEMENTARYAVON, MN · 264 students
- Avon Elementary SchoolAVON, CO · 242 students
- Avon Elementary - 02Avon, SD · 74 students
Nearby schools
- Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School0.4 mi · 926
- Seventh Avenue0.7 mi · 145
- Woodland Middle School0.8 mi · 220
- Atlantic Avenue0.9 mi · 125
- Elizabeth Haddon School1.1 mi · 402
- Central School1.1 mi · 447
Frequently asked questions
About Avon Elementary SchoolHow large is Avon Elementary School?
Avon Elementary School enrolls approximately 305 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Avon Elementary School serve?
Avon Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Avon Elementary School?
Approximately 8.6:1 students per teacher at Avon Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Avon Elementary School?
At Avon Elementary School, the student body is approximately 71% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Avon Elementary School public or private?
Avon Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Barrington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.