Helen A. Fort Middle School

Helen A. Fort Middle School, a mid-sized 6-8 campus in PEMBERTON, New Jersey, operated by Pemberton Township School District, works with 584 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

Within Pemberton Township School District, which oversees 9 schools and 4,261 students, Helen A. Fort Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Helen A. Fort Middle School shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 24% Hispanic, 19% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Helen A. Fort Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Burlington County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Helen A. Fort Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 28.2%, a residual of -9.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Burlington County put the typical household earns roughly $108,111 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Helen A. Fort Middle School is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).

Marcus W. Newcomb Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Helen A. Fort Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Helen A. Fort Middle School's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 658 (now 584). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 16% to 24%. Class-load math has grew: from 6.8:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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