Lindenwold School Five

Lindenwold School Five is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in LINDENWOLD, New Jersey, overseen by Lindenwold Public School District, with 596 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Lindenwold School Five sits 47% bigger than that benchmark.

Lindenwold School Five is one of 5 schools operated by Lindenwold Public School District, a district that works with 3,112 students overall.

Demographically, Lindenwold School Five reports that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 37% Black, 10% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Camden County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lindenwold School Five sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.1%; this one delivers 26.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Camden County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Lindenwold School Five is one of 158 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students).

Laurel Springs School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lindenwold School Five comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lindenwold School Five has ticked up 14%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 596 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 41% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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