Cold Springs School

Cold Springs School is one of the sizable elementary campuss in GLOUCESTER CITY, New Jersey, part of Gloucester City Public School District, with 839 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 107% bigger than the state mean of about 405.

Gloucester City Public School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 2,394 students. Cold Springs School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Cold Springs School lists that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 25% Hispanic, 14% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Cold Springs School logs 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Camden County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Cold Springs School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.1%; this one delivers 29.7%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Camden County indicate median household income runs about $88,755, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Camden County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), Cold Springs School is one campus in the mix.

Gloucester City High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cold Springs School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 875 students in 2018 compared to 839 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 49% across the same window.

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