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Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School
As a mid-tier four-year high school in HADDON HEIGHTS, New Jersey, Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School enrolls 926 students from grades 7 through 12, overseen by HADDON HEIGHTS School District.
HADDON HEIGHTS School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,457 students. Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School records that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 16% Black, 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Camden County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School lists 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Camden County's rate of about 50%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -6.3 points.
Around the school, Camden County reports that median household earnings sit near $88,755, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Camden County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Avon Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 63.0%.
Haddon Heights Jr./Sr. High School operates from an outer-ring location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 9%: 849 students in 2018 compared to 926 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 14% across the same window.
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