Camden Big Picture Learning Academy

As a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in CAMDEN, New Jersey, Camden Big Picture Learning Academy serves 150 students from grades 7 through 12, overseen by Camden City School District. Enrollment runs roughly 84% leaner than the state mean of about 929.

Camden Big Picture Learning Academy is one of 16 schools operated by Camden City School District, a district that works with 5,871 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Camden Big Picture Learning Academy lists that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 31% Hispanic. By comparison, Camden County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Camden Big Picture Learning Academy shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at Camden Big Picture Learning Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Camden Big Picture Learning Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.2%; actual is 8.4%, a gap of -30.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Camden County put 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%. Camden Big Picture Learning Academy is one of 158 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students).

Creative Arts High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Camden Big Picture Learning Academy. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Camden Big Picture Learning Academy ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 12.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 40%: 249 students in 2018 compared to 150 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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