H Ashton Marsh

Set in ABSECON, New Jersey, H Ashton Marsh is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within Absecon Public Schools District. It hosts 516 students across grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so H Ashton Marsh sits 27% larger than that benchmark.

Within Absecon Public Schools District, which oversees 2 schools and 908 students, H Ashton Marsh is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, H Ashton Marsh reports that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, H Ashton Marsh reports 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.6:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at H Ashton Marsh qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, H Ashton Marsh performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Across the wider county, Atlantic County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,050 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. H Ashton Marsh is one of 77 public schools in Atlantic County (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students).

Emma C Attales is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, H Ashton Marsh comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at H Ashton Marsh has expanded 5%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 516 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 16% to 33%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

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