Hawthorne Park Elementary School

Set in WILLINGBORO, New Jersey, Hawthorne Park Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school, operated by Willingboro Public School District. It enrolls 354 students across grades 1 through 4.

Within Willingboro Public School District, which oversees 8 schools and 3,690 students, Hawthorne Park Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Hawthorne Park Elementary School reports that Black students make up the majority at 67%; the rest breaks down as 21% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Burlington County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Hawthorne Park Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at Hawthorne Park Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Burlington County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Hawthorne Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.2%, the actual is 28.6%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Burlington County put median household earnings sit near $108,111, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Burlington County runs 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), of which Hawthorne Park Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Willingboro Memorial Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hawthorne Park Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 17.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hawthorne Park Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 354). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 82% to 67%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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