Chelsea Heights School

Chelsea Heights School is one of the intimate primary schools in Atlantic City, New Jersey, one of the schools within Atlantic City School District, with 267 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 34% leaner than typical.

Across the 11 schools in Atlantic City School District (6,339 students total), Chelsea Heights School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Chelsea Heights School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 30% Asian, 21% Black, 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

In terms of school funding signals, Chelsea Heights School logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at Chelsea Heights School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Atlantic County (around 59%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Chelsea Heights School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 17.4%; this one delivers 39.0%, a residual of +21.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Atlantic County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $78,050 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Atlantic County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), of which Chelsea Heights School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Richmond Avenue School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chelsea Heights School. On composite proficiency, Chelsea Heights School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 24.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Chelsea Heights School's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 267). The Hispanic share of enrollment fell from 48% to 43% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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