Lenape High School

Located at 235 HARTFORD ROAD, in MEDFORD, New Jersey, Lenape High School is a sprawling 9-12 campus that teaches 1,912 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Lenape Regional High School District. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 106% bigger than typical.

Lenape High School is one of 4 schools operated by Lenape Regional High School District, a district that instructs 6,439 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lenape High School reports that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 15% Black, 15% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 148 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Burlington County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lenape High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the area at large, Burlington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $108,111 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Lenape High School is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kirby's Mill Elementary School, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lenape High School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Lenape High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 1,876 (now 1,912). The White share of enrollment contracted from 61% to 51% over that span.

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