Broad Street School

Set in BRIDGETON, New Jersey, Broad Street School is an expansive elementary-level community, part of Bridgeton City School District. It works with 784 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Broad Street School sits 94% larger than that benchmark.

Within Bridgeton City School District, which oversees 8 schools and 5,764 students, Broad Street School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Broad Street School reports that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 7% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 36% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Broad Street School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Cumberland County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, Broad Street School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 14.2%; this one delivers 10.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cumberland County put the typical household earns roughly $67,436 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Cumberland County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,803 students), Broad Street School is one campus in the mix.

West Avenue School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Broad Street School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 12.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Broad Street School has decreased 17%, going from 945 students in 2018 to 784 in 2025.

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