Enrollment
222
Elementary
DISTRICT 359 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLMAWR PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340138001320
Ethel M Burke Elementary School
112 SOUTH BLACK HORSE PIKE, BELLMAWR, NJ 08031 · (856) 931-6362 · Camden County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL222 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
111 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 32 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 24% |
This year's kindergarten class (32) is 40% smaller than its 4th grade class (53).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). 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
Ethel M Burke Elementary School→Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
54.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . -3.3pp since 2023
Math
67.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +20.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 20 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.2% | 67.5% |
| 2023-24 | 57.5% | 47.1% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
56.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ethel M Burke Elementary School
Ethel M Burke Elementary School's state test result (56.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethel M Burke Elementary School this school | 222 | 50.0% | 56.8% |
| Leroy Gordon Cooper Elementary School CLIFFWOOD BEACH | 216 | 50.0% | 46.9% |
| School #16 CLIFTON | 201 | 49.3% | 46.8% |
| Watchung Elementary School MIDDLESEX | 221 | 41.6% | 57.4% |
| Slackwood Elementary School LAWRENCEVILLE | 251 | 59.8% | 43.6% |
| Meadowbrook EATONTOWN | 212 | 53.8% | N/A |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ethel M Burke Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Camden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.8% | #398 of 1,290 | #24 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #285 of 1,319 ▲ 321 | #14 of 85 ▲ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #612 of 1,319 ▼ 89 | #31 of 85 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 222 | #1,350 of 1,562 | #74 of 95 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #118 of 1,390 | #10 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #123 of 1,392 | #11 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.0% | #577 of 1,481 | #30 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.3% | #177 of 798 | #9 of 37 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
222
-36 (-14%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 174
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 10.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 222 | 25 | 8.9:1 | 50% (111) |
| 2023-24 | 233 | 25 | 9.3:1 | 41% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 236 | 25 | 9.4:1 | 41% (96) |
| 2020-21 | 258 | 24 | 10.8:1 | 43% (110) |
| 2017-18 | 275 | 22.6 | 12.2:1 | 43% (117) |
| 2015-16 | 279 | 24 | 11.6:1 | 50% (139) |
| 2010-11 | 277 | 14 | 19.8:1 | 36% (99) |
| 2000-01 | 201 | 13 | 15.5:1 | 31% (63) |
| 1990-91 | 174 | 10 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ethel M Burke Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (275 to 222); teachers up 10% (22.6 to 25).
About Ethel M Burke Elementary School
Among the schools in BELLMAWR, New Jersey, is Ethel M Burke Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school. The school runs kindergarten through 4 and enrolls 222 students. Elementary schools in New Jersey have about 405 students on average; enrollment here is 45% lower.
Ethel M Burke Elementary School reports to Bellmawr Public School District, which has 3 schools and 1,159 students.
About 42% of students at Ethel M Burke Elementary School are White, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 25% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 9% multiracial, and 3% Black. Camden County's residents are about 55% White, 12 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 25 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 8.9:1. Compared with the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 50%. The average for public schools in Camden County is similar, at 50%.
Ethel M Burke Elementary School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 82% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Ethel M Burke Elementary School beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 18.0 points (56.8% versus 38.8%), a top-10% result in New Jersey on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Camden County show that median household income comes to about $88,755, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 158, with about 82,104 students.
A public school about 0.7 miles away, Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School, is the closest to Ethel M Burke Elementary School. Ethel M Burke Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 37.8%, lower than Ethel M Burke Elementary School's 56.8%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 14% decline, from 258 to 222. Its ratio of students to teachers was 10.8:1 in 2020-21, and 8.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Camden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
527,257
Census ACS
Median income
$88,755
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
158
82,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bellmawr Public School District
- Bellmawr Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
- Bell Oaks Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 441 students
Other schools in BELLMAWR
- Bellmawr Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 496 students
- Bell Oaks Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 441 students
Nearby schools
- Bell Oaks Upper Elementary School0.7 mi · 441
- Glenview Avenue0.9 mi · 261
- Mary E. Volz Elementary School0.9 mi · 510
- Grade Downing Elementary School1.0 mi · 149
- Raymond W. Kershaw School1.0 mi · 137
- Aline Bingham Elementary School1.1 mi · 186
Frequently asked questions
About Ethel M Burke Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Ethel M Burke Elementary School?
Ethel M Burke Elementary School enrolls approximately 222 students in grades KG-04.
Is Ethel M Burke Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ethel M Burke Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does Ethel M Burke Elementary School have?
Ethel M Burke Elementary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Ethel M Burke Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ethel M Burke Elementary School are roughly 42% White, 25% Hispanic, 3% Black, 20% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Ethel M Burke Elementary School?
Ethel M Burke Elementary School is overseen by Bellmawr Public School District in Camden County.
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