Charles L. Spragg School

Charles L. Spragg School operates as a small primary school in EGG HARBOR CITY, New Jersey, one of the schools within Egg Harbor City School District. Current enrollment sits at 285 students spanning grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 30% leaner than the state mean of about 405.

Egg Harbor City School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 551 students; Charles L. Spragg School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Charles L. Spragg School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 23% White, 22% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Atlantic County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Charles L. Spragg School records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Atlantic County's rate of about 59%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Charles L. Spragg School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.0%; actual is 9.0%, a gap of -17.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Atlantic County) logs that median household income runs about $78,050, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Atlantic County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), Charles L. Spragg School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Egg Harbor City Community School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Charles L. Spragg School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 274 students in 2018 compared to 285 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 39% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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