Henry B. Wilson Family School

Henry B. Wilson Family School is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in CAMDEN, New Jersey, run under Camden City School District, with 377 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Across the 16 schools in Camden City School District (5,871 students total), Henry B. Wilson Family School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Henry B. Wilson Family School logs that Black students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 33% Hispanic. By comparison, Camden County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Henry B. Wilson Family School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Henry B. Wilson Family School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Camden County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Henry B. Wilson Family School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 29.6%; actual is 6.6%, a gap of -23.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Camden County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Henry B. Wilson Family School is one of 158 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students).

Nearest neighbor: Morgan Village Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Henry B. Wilson Family School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Henry B. Wilson Family School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 17.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Henry B. Wilson Family School has decreased 40%, going from 630 students in 2018 to 377 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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