J. Mason Tomlin Elementary School

J. Mason Tomlin Elementary School, an average-sized middle school in MANTUA, New Jersey, overseen by Mantua Township School District, serves 558 students, covering grades 4 through 6.

Within Mantua Township School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,295 students, J. Mason Tomlin Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, J. Mason Tomlin Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 21% of students at J. Mason Tomlin Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Gloucester County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, J. Mason Tomlin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.5%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of -5.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Gloucester County shows median household income runs about $105,115, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Gloucester County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students), of which J. Mason Tomlin Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pine Acres Early Childhood Center, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts J. Mason Tomlin Elementary School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 529 students in 2018 compared to 558 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 90% to 75%.

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