Dr. William Mennies Elementary School

Dr. William Mennies Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus in VINELAND, New Jersey, operated by Vineland Public School District. The school hosts 558 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 38% above typical.

Vineland Public School District runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 9,392 students. Dr. William Mennies Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dr. William Mennies Elementary School lists that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% Black, 15% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Cumberland County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dr. William Mennies Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 19.3%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cumberland County) reports that median household earnings sit near $67,436, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Cumberland County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,803 students), of which Dr. William Mennies Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is John H. Winslow Elementary School, roughly 1.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dr. William Mennies Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.7%.

Dr. William Mennies Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 607 students in 2018 compared to 558 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 15% across the same window.

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