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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the J Harold Van Zant administration to hear?
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Enrollment
621
Elementary
DISTRICT 509 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVESHAM TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340489001072
J Harold Van Zant
270 CONESTOGA DRIVE, MARLTON, NJ 08053 · (856) 988-0687 · Burlington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL621 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
118 students
DISTRICT 15% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (118).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
51.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +7.4pp since 2023
Math
48.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +8.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.2% | 48.2% |
| 2023-24 | 43.8% | 39.7% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
40.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 56% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like J Harold Van Zant
J Harold Van Zant's state test result (40.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Harold Van Zant this school | 621 | 19.0% | 40.3% |
| Helen L Beeler MARLTON | 557 | 16.2% | 41.0% |
| Joseph F Brandt Elementary School HOBOKEN | 632 | 20.7% | 73.6% |
| Taylor Mills School Manalapan | 533 | 20.6% | 64.5% |
| General Charles G. Harker School Woolwich Township | 696 | 22.4% | 57.4% |
| Whiton Elementary School Neshanic Station | 617 | 13.1% | 64.0% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where J Harold Van Zant ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Burlington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #746 of 1,290 | #34 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #620 of 1,319 ▲ 125 | #28 of 56 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.2% | #678 of 1,319 ▲ 129 | #21 of 56 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 621 | #197 of 1,562 | #10 of 76 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #1,335 of 1,390 | #68 of 70 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.5% | #701 of 1,392 | #48 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.0% | #1,050 of 1,481 | #49 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.7% | #104 of 545 | #10 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
621
+98 (+19%) vs 2020
+11% since 1990-91, when it was 561
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 12.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 621 | 39.5 | 15.7:1 | 19% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 624 | 38 | 16.4:1 | 11% (70) |
| 2022-23 | 612 | 38 | 16.1:1 | 10% (61) |
| 2020-21 | 523 | 41 | 12.8:1 | 9% (45) |
| 2017-18 | 519 | 40 | 13.0:1 | 11% (55) |
| 2015-16 | 352 | 31 | 11.3:1 | 10% (35) |
| 2010-11 | 399 | 27 | 14.8:1 | 4% (17) |
| 2000-01 | 527 | 37 | 14.2:1 | 1% (6) |
| 1990-91 | 561 | 28 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for J Harold Van Zant.
Since 2017-18: students up 20% (519 to 621); teachers down 1% (40 to 39.5).
About J Harold Van Zant
J Harold Van Zant serves students in MARLTON, New Jersey, as a large elementary school. Its 621 students are spread across kindergarten through 5. The school's enrollment is 53% bigger than the 405 average for elementary schools in New Jersey.
Evesham Township School District counts 8 schools and 4,516 students, including J Harold Van Zant.
At J Harold Van Zant, White students make up 66% of the student body. It is also 11% Asian, 8% Black, 7% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. For comparison, Burlington County is about 64% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 54% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
J Harold Van Zant employs 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.7:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. J Harold Van Zant's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 19%. The rate at public schools in Burlington County averages 32%, higher than here.
J Harold Van Zant is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 21% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, J Harold Van Zant ranks in the bottom 10% in New Jersey. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 40.3%, against a prediction of 55.8%.
Burlington County has about 467,805 residents, and the median household income is $108,111, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. In all, Burlington County has 139 public schools and roughly 69,020 students.
Nearest public school: James F. Cooper Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: J Harold Van Zant ranks 9th of 9 nearby schools, at 40.3% versus a 56.8% average.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
J Harold Van Zant's enrollment climbed from 523 in 2020-21 to 621 in 2024-25. Students per teacher rose from 12.8 in 2020-21 to 15.7 in 2024-25.
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Burlington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
467,805
Census ACS
Median income
$108,111
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
139
69,020 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Evesham Township School District
- Marlton MiddleMiddle · 744 students
- Frances DeMasi Middle SchoolMiddle · 720 students
- Marlton ElementaryElementary · 567 students
- Helen L BeelerElementary · 557 students
- Richard L Rice SchoolElementary · 492 students
- Robert B Jaggard SchoolElementary · 483 students
Other schools in MARLTON
- Cherokee High SchoolHigh · 2,082 students
- Marlton MiddleMiddle · 744 students
- Frances DeMasi Middle SchoolMiddle · 720 students
- Marlton ElementaryElementary · 567 students
- Helen L BeelerElementary · 557 students
- Richard L Rice SchoolElementary · 492 students
Nearby schools
- James F. Cooper Elementary School0.8 mi · 284
- Richard Stockton Elementary School1.2 mi · 394
- Joseph D. Sharp Elementary School1.2 mi · 455
- Henry C. Beck Middle School1.5 mi · 701
- Parkway Elementary School1.7 mi · 366
- Frances DeMasi Middle School1.8 mi · 720
Frequently asked questions
About J Harold Van ZantWhat is the total enrollment at J Harold Van Zant?
J Harold Van Zant enrolls approximately 621 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does J Harold Van Zant serve?
J Harold Van Zant serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at J Harold Van Zant?
The student-to-teacher ratio at J Harold Van Zant is approximately 15.7:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at J Harold Van Zant?
At J Harold Van Zant, the student body is approximately 66% White, 7% Hispanic, 8% Black, 11% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is J Harold Van Zant public or private?
J Harold Van Zant is a public K-12 school, overseen by Evesham Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.