Bellmawr Park Elementary School

Bellmawr Park Elementary School, a mid-tier K-5 school in BELLMAWR, New Jersey, overseen by Bellmawr Public School District, hosts 496 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Bellmawr Park Elementary School sits 22% larger than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, Bellmawr Park Elementary School logs that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. Compared to Camden County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Camden County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bellmawr Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of +8.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Camden County shows median household earnings sit near $88,755, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bellmawr Park Elementary School is one of 158 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students).

Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bellmawr Park Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bellmawr Park Elementary School has rose 4%, going from 477 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 64% to 57%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Bellmawr Park Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.