Caroline L. Reutter School

Caroline L. Reutter School is a small middle school in FRANKLINVILLE, New Jersey, operated by Township of Franklin School District. The school teaches 388 students in grades 5 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 578.

Within Township of Franklin School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,312 students, Caroline L. Reutter School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Caroline L. Reutter School shows that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Caroline L. Reutter School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 27% of students at Caroline L. Reutter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Caroline L. Reutter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Gloucester County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,115, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Gloucester County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students), of which Caroline L. Reutter School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Delsea Regional High School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Caroline L. Reutter School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 32.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Caroline L. Reutter School's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 415 (now 388).

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