Mansfield Township Elementary School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mansfield Township Elementary School
Set in COLUMBUS, New Jersey, Mansfield Township Elementary School is a compact elementary campus, overseen by Mansfield Township School District. It works with 303 students across grades 3 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 25% smaller than the state mean of about 405.
Mansfield Township School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 548 students. Mansfield Township Elementary School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Mansfield Township Elementary School logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 12% Black, 10% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. Compared to Burlington County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, Mansfield Township Elementary School logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Mansfield Township Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Burlington County's rate of about 32%.
With demographic context factored in, Mansfield Township Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.7%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of +5.8 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Burlington County indicate median household earnings sit near $108,111, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Burlington County's 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), Mansfield Township Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Northern Burlington County Regional Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mansfield Township Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.3%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mansfield Township Elementary School has declined 16%, going from 362 students in 2018 to 303 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 67% to 62%. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.
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