Egg Harbor City Community School

Egg Harbor City Community School is a close-knit middle-grades school in EGG HARBOR CITY, New Jersey, overseen by Egg Harbor City School District. The school educates 266 students in grades 4 through 8. That puts it 54% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Egg Harbor City School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 551 students. Egg Harbor City Community School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Egg Harbor City Community School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 25% Black, 20% White, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Atlantic County's rate of about 59%.

After controlling for student poverty, Egg Harbor City Community School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Atlantic County) records that the typical household earns roughly $78,050 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Atlantic County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), Egg Harbor City Community School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Charles L. Spragg School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Egg Harbor City Community School. On composite proficiency, Egg Harbor City Community School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

Egg Harbor City Community School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Egg Harbor City Community School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 261 (now 266). Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 in 2025.

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