1
Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Denbo Crichton School administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
855
Elementary
DISTRICT 399 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341281003495
Denbo Crichton School
Two Learning Way, Browns Mills, NJ 08015 · (609) 893-8141 · Burlington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL855 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
458 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Denbo Crichton School→Marcus W. Newcomb Middle School→Helen A. Fort Middle School→Pemberton Township High School
Based on grade levels within Pemberton Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
27.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
17.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
20.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
About 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.
On the community side, the feed for Denbo Crichton School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Burlington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
467,805
Census ACS
Median income
$108,111
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
139
69,020 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pemberton Township School District
- Pemberton Township High SchoolHigh · 972 students
- Helen A. Fort Middle SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Pemberton Early Childhood Education CenterElementary · 447 students
- Marcus W. Newcomb Middle SchoolMiddle · 309 students
- Fort Dix Elementary SchoolElementary · 296 students
- Samuel T. Busansky SchoolElementary · 283 students
Other schools in Browns Mills
- Joseph S. Stackhouse SchoolElementary · 242 students
Nearby schools
- Joseph S. Stackhouse School1.6 mi · 242
- Fort Dix Elementary School3.3 mi · 296
- Marcus W. Newcomb Middle School4.6 mi · 309
- Helen A. Fort Middle School4.7 mi · 584
- Samuel T. Busansky School4.8 mi · 283
- Howard L. Emmons4.8 mi · 273
Frequently asked questions
About Denbo Crichton SchoolHow large is Denbo Crichton School?
Denbo Crichton School enrolls approximately 855 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Denbo Crichton School serve?
Denbo Crichton School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Denbo Crichton School?
Approximately 11.7:1 students per teacher at Denbo Crichton School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Denbo Crichton School?
At Denbo Crichton School, the student body is approximately 49% White, 26% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Denbo Crichton School in?
Denbo Crichton School is part of Pemberton Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.