Charles W. Lewis Middle School

Charles W. Lewis Middle School operates as an average-sized middle-grades school in BLACKWOOD, New Jersey, one of the schools within Gloucester Township Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 704 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 22% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Gloucester Township Public Schools runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,502 students. Charles W. Lewis Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Charles W. Lewis Middle School reports that the largest single group is White at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 31% Black, 24% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 61% of students at Charles W. Lewis Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Camden County's rate of about 50%.

After controlling for student poverty, Charles W. Lewis Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Across the wider county, 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%. In all, Camden County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), of which Charles W. Lewis Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Highland Regional High School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Charles W. Lewis Middle School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Charles W. Lewis Middle School has rose 11%, going from 637 students in 2018 to 704 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 42% to 31% over that span.

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