Leeds Avenue Elementary School

Leeds Avenue Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in PLEASANTVILLE, New Jersey, operated by Pleasantville Public School District, with 570 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% above the state mean of about 405.

Across the 6 schools in Pleasantville Public School District (3,619 students total), Leeds Avenue Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Leeds Avenue Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 38% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Atlantic County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Leeds Avenue Elementary School has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Leeds Avenue Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Atlantic County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Leeds Avenue Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.8%, the actual is 19.4%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Atlantic County) shows that median household income runs about $78,050, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Leeds Avenue Elementary School is one of 77 public schools in Atlantic County (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students).

The closest other public school is Pleasantville Middle School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Leeds Avenue Elementary School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 23.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Leeds Avenue Elementary School has shrank 5%, going from 602 students in 2018 to 570 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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