Mainland Regional High School

Set in LINWOOD, New Jersey, Mainland Regional High School is a reasonably sized secondary school, one of the schools within Mainland Regional High School. It teaches 1,160 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Mainland Regional High School sits 25% larger than that benchmark.

Mainland Regional High School sits inside Mainland Regional High School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Mainland Regional High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 22% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 27% of students at Mainland Regional High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Atlantic County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mainland Regional High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.6%; this one delivers 39.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Atlantic County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,050, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Atlantic County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), Mainland Regional High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Belhaven Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mainland Regional High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mainland Regional High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mainland Regional High School's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,267 (now 1,160). The White share of enrollment fell from 69% to 62% over that span.

On the community side, the feed for Mainland Regional High School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.