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Lindenwold School Four
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% 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 Lindenwold School Four
Lindenwold School Four operates as a high-enrollment primary school in LINDENWOLD, New Jersey, run under Lindenwold Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 657 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Lindenwold School Four sits 62% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 5 schools in Lindenwold Public School District (3,112 students total), Lindenwold School Four accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Lindenwold School Four logs that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic; the rest reads as 14% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school employs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 89% of students at Lindenwold School Four qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Camden County's rate of about 50%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lindenwold School Four tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 17.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 13.8%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Camden County indicate median household earnings sit near $88,755, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Lindenwold School Four is one campus in the mix.
Lindenwold High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lindenwold School Four. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lindenwold School Four ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 720 students in 2018 compared to 657 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 65% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.
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