Cooper's Poynt Family School

Cooper's Poynt Family School, a medium-sized elementary school in CAMDEN, New Jersey, part of Camden City School District, teaches 381 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Camden City School District comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 5,871 students; Cooper's Poynt Family School is among them.

Demographically, Cooper's Poynt Family School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 37% Black. By comparison, Camden County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.5:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at Cooper's Poynt Family School qualify 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 north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cooper's Poynt Family School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.0%; Cooper's Poynt Family School posts 9.0%, -23.0 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Camden County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Camden County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), of which Cooper's Poynt Family School is one.

The closest other public school is Leap Academy University Charter School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cooper's Poynt Family School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.6%.

Cooper's Poynt Family School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 446 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 41% to 37% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 today.

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