Camden's Promise Charter School

Camden's Promise Charter School is a K-12 campus of high-enrollment scale in Camden, New Jersey, one of the schools within Camden's Promise Charter School, serveing 2,457 students in grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 163% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 934 students.

Camden's Promise Charter School is a school of Camden's Promise Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Camden's Promise Charter School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Beyond that, the school lists 13% Black. By comparison, Camden County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Camden's Promise Charter School records 202 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Camden County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Camden's Promise Charter School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.2%; this one delivers 21.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Camden County put median household income runs about $88,755, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Camden's Promise Charter School is one of 158 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students).

Nearest neighbor: Baldwin Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 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), Camden's Promise Charter School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 13.8%.

Camden's Promise Charter School operates from an urban location. Camden's Promise Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Camden's Promise Charter School has rose 18%, going from 2,080 students in 2018 to 2,457 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 23% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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