Maple Shade High School

Maple Shade High School is a four-year high school of average-sized scale in MAPLE SHADE, New Jersey, one of the schools within Maple Shade School District, serveing 944 students in grades 7 through 12.

Maple Shade School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,360 students. Maple Shade High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Maple Shade High School logs that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Maple Shade High School shows 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Maple Shade High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Burlington County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Maple Shade High School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.1%; Maple Shade High School posts 21.0%, -16.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Burlington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $108,111 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Burlington County runs 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), of which Maple Shade High School is one.

Maude M. Wilkins Elementary 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 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maple Shade High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 35.1%.

Maple Shade High School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maple Shade High School has ticked up 10%, going from 859 students in 2018 to 944 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 45% across the same window.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.