Florence Riverfront School

Florence Riverfront School is a junior high of medium-sized scale in FLORENCE, New Jersey, run under Florence Township School District, enrolling 627 students in grades 4 through 8.

Across the 3 schools in Florence Township School District (1,512 students total), Florence Riverfront School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Florence Riverfront School reports that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 24% Black, 13% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Burlington County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Florence Riverfront School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.3%; actual is 26.1%, a gap of -15.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Burlington County shows median household income runs about $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. Across Burlington County's 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), Florence Riverfront School is one campus in the mix.

Riverbank Charter School of Excellence is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Florence Riverfront School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 691 students in 2018 compared to 627 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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