M. Joan Pearson School

M. Joan Pearson School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in DELANCO, New Jersey, operated by Delanco Township School District. The school caters to 355 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Delanco Township School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 483 students. M. Joan Pearson School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, M. Joan Pearson School records that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 25% Black, 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Burlington County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting M. Joan Pearson School higher than the state norm the norm. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Burlington County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, M. Joan Pearson School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.7%; actual is 19.6%, a gap of -21.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Burlington County indicate median household earnings sit near $108,111, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Burlington County's 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), M. Joan Pearson School is one campus in the mix.

Walnut Street School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), M. Joan Pearson School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.9%.

M. Joan Pearson School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. M. Joan Pearson School's enrollment has increased 31% since 2018, when it stood at 271 (now 355). Over the same period, the White share declined from 62% to 46%.

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