Cherry Hill High School West

Located at 2101 Chapel Ave., in CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, Cherry Hill High School West is a reasonably sized senior high that hosts 1,287 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Cherry Hill School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Cherry Hill High School West sits 39% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 19 schools in Cherry Hill School District (10,653 students total), Cherry Hill High School West accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Cherry Hill High School West reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 15% Black, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Camden County's rate of about 50%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cherry Hill High School West is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.4%; Cherry Hill High School West posts 32.5%, -14.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Camden County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Cherry Hill High School West is one of 158 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students).

Nearest neighbor: Clara Barton Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cherry Hill High School West. On composite proficiency, Cherry Hill High School West comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cherry Hill High School West has declined 3%, going from 1,321 students in 2018 to 1,287 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 56% to 47% across the same window.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.