Mannington Township Elementary School

Mannington Township Elementary School is a modestly sized K-5 school in SALEM, New Jersey, one of the schools within Mannington Township School District. The school instructs 170 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 58% smaller than typical.

Mannington Township School District is the operating authority for Mannington Township Elementary School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Mannington Township Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 14% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Salem County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mannington Township Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.0%; this one delivers 60.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Salem County) records that median household income runs about $79,960, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Salem County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,156 students), Mannington Township Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Salem Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mannington Township Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mannington Township Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.8%.

Mannington Township Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 12%: 152 students in 2018 compared to 170 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Mannington Township Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.