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If you had an hour of school board time for Charles Street School, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
417
Elementary
DISTRICT 258 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALMYRA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341239001190
Charles Street School
100 W CHARLES STREET, PALMYRA, NJ 08065 · (856) 786-9300 · Burlington County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL417 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
194 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Palmyra Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
40.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
36.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 36.6% |
| 2023-24 | 38.4% | 33.7% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Charles Street School
Charles Street School's state test result (35.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Street School this school | 417 | 46.5% | 35.9% |
| John F Kennedy Elementary School West Berlin | 357 | 47.9% | 29.4% |
| Valley Park Elementary School PENNSVILLE | 365 | 49.9% | N/A |
| Ocean Township Elementary School OAKHURST | 410 | 50.0% | 48.6% |
| Whitehall Elementary School WILLIAMSTOWN | 390 | 38.5% | 50.3% |
| Pemberton Early Childhood Education Center Pemberton | 447 | 49.7% | N/A |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Charles Street School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Burlington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.9% | #837 of 1,290 | #40 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #858 of 1,319 ▼ 6 | #43 of 56 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #934 of 1,319 ▼ 19 | #41 of 56 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 417 | #645 of 1,562 | #29 of 76 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #389 of 1,390 | #20 of 70 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #324 of 1,392 | #29 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.5% | #637 of 1,481 | #22 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #317 of 798 | #12 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
417
+65 (+18%) vs 2020
+56% since 1990-91, when it was 267
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 417 | 41 | 10.2:1 | 47% (194) |
| 2023-24 | 394 | 38 | 10.4:1 | 36% (143) |
| 2022-23 | 408 | 39 | 10.5:1 | 24% (98) |
| 2020-21 | 352 | 31 | 11.3:1 | 36% (126) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 37.8 | 12.7:1 | 41% (198) |
| 2015-16 | 514 | 41 | 12.5:1 | 46% (237) |
| 2010-11 | 479 | 31 | 15.4:1 | 41% (195) |
| 2000-01 | 521 | 36 | 14.5:1 | 26% (135) |
| 1990-91 | 267 | 20 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Charles Street School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (480 to 417); teachers up 9% (37.8 to 41).
About Charles Street School
Charles Street School sits in PALMYRA, New Jersey, and is classified as an elementary school. Federal data show 417 students enrolled in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25.
Palmyra Public School District is made up of 4 schools with 1,035 students in all.
Of every 100 students at Charles Street School, about 53 are White. Other reported shares: 17% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, and 13% Black. Burlington County's residents are about 64% White, 11 points above the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Charles Street School scores 65%.
Staffing at Charles Street School comes to 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.2:1. The school's 10.2:1 compares with an average of 11.4:1 for elementary schools in New Jersey. On the income side, 47% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 32% average for public schools in Burlington County is 15 points.
Charles Street School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 26% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Charles Street School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (35.9%) and its predicted rate (40.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools.
For Burlington County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $108,111 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Burlington County number 139, with about 69,020 students.
Charles Street School's nearest public school is Palmyra Middle School (about 0.5 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Charles Street School. Charles Street School places 5th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The school's student count rose 18% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 10.2:1, from 11.3:1.
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Burlington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
467,805
Census ACS
Median income
$108,111
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
139
69,020 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Palmyra Public School District
- Palmyra High SchoolHigh · 385 students
- Palmyra Middle SchoolMiddle · 134 students
- Delaware Avenue SchoolElementary · 99 students
Other schools in PALMYRA
- Palmyra High SchoolHigh · 385 students
- Palmyra Middle SchoolMiddle · 134 students
- Delaware Avenue SchoolElementary · 99 students
Nearby schools
- Palmyra Middle School0.5 mi · 134
- Palmyra High School0.5 mi · 385
- Delaware Avenue School0.6 mi · 99
- Pennsauken High School0.8 mi · 1,588
- Riverton School District1.1 mi · 252
- Cinnaminson High School1.5 mi · 929
Frequently asked questions
About Charles Street SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Charles Street School?
Charles Street School enrolls approximately 417 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Charles Street School serve?
Charles Street School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Charles Street School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Charles Street School is approximately 10.2:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Charles Street School?
At Charles Street School, the student body is approximately 53% White, 17% Hispanic, 13% Black, 2% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Charles Street School public or private?
Charles Street School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Palmyra Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.