Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School

Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School is one of the small intermediate schools in BELLMAWR, New Jersey, one of the schools within Bellmawr Public School District, with 441 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

Bellmawr Public School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,159 students. Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.4%, the actual is 40.7%, a residual of +6.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Camden County put median household earnings sit near $88,755, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Camden County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), of which Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School is one.

Raymond W. Kershaw 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 Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 467 (now 441). The White share of enrollment edged down from 64% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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