Cherokee High School

Cherokee High School is a four-year high school of sizable scale in MARLTON, New Jersey, operated by Lenape Regional High School District, works with 2,082 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 124% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Cherokee High School is one of 4 schools operated by Lenape Regional High School District, a district that educates 6,439 students overall.

On demographics, Cherokee High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 11% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Burlington County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 155 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at Cherokee High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Burlington County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Cherokee High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Burlington County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $108,111 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Burlington County runs 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), of which Cherokee High School is one.

Marlton Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cherokee High School. On composite proficiency, Cherokee High School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.

Cherokee High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Cherokee High School's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 2,161 (now 2,082). The White share of enrollment shrank from 80% to 68% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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