Denbo Crichton School

As a big elementary campus in Browns Mills, New Jersey, Denbo Crichton School caters to 855 students from grades K through 5, operated by Pemberton Township School District. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 111% bigger than typical.

Pemberton Township School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,261 students. Denbo Crichton School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Denbo Crichton School shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 10% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Burlington County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Denbo Crichton School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.8%; actual is 20.0%, a gap of -16.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Burlington County) reports that median household earnings sit near $108,111, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Denbo Crichton School is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).

Nearest neighbor: Joseph S. Stackhouse School, around 1.6 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Denbo Crichton School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

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