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Camden Prep Inc.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Camden Prep Inc.
Camden Prep Inc., a heavily attended all-grades campus in Camden, New Jersey, run under Camden Prep Inc., works with 1,498 students, covering grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 934 students per school, that is 60% larger than typical.
Camden Prep Inc. sits inside Camden Prep Inc., the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
Demographically, Camden Prep Inc. lists that Black students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder looks like 37% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Camden County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 99.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Camden Prep Inc. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Camden County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Camden Prep Inc. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.9%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of +9.1 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Camden County) logs that median household income runs about $88,755, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Camden County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), Camden Prep Inc. is one campus in the mix.
Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Camden Prep Inc.. On composite proficiency, Camden Prep Inc. comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 11.4%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Camden Prep Inc. has increased 154%, going from 589 students in 2018 to 1,498 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 93% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 99.9:1 in 2025.
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Camden County at a glance
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