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KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 13% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation
KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation operates as a well-populated all-grades campus in Camden, New Jersey, one of the schools within KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation. Current enrollment sits at 2,280 students spanning grades K through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 934 students each, so KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation sits 144% bigger than that benchmark.
KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation sits inside KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On demographics, KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation records that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 42% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the resource side, The school reports having 125 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.0%, the actual is 19.4%, a residual of +6.4 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Camden County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Camden County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Hope Community Charter School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 11.3%.
KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation operates from a city-core location.
Over the past 7-year window. KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation's enrollment has rose 104% since 2018, when it stood at 1,120 (now 2,280). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 35% to 42%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for KIPP: Cooper Norcross A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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