Mary S. Shoemaker School

Located at MARY S SHOEMAKER SCHOOL, in WOODSTOWN, New Jersey, Mary S. Shoemaker School is a medium-sized elementary campus that works with 528 students (grades K through 5), run under Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District. Enrollment runs roughly 30% larger than the state mean of about 405.

Across the 4 schools in Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District (1,494 students total), Mary S. Shoemaker School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Mary S. Shoemaker School records that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Mary S. Shoemaker School records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 29% of students at Mary S. Shoemaker School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Salem County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mary S. Shoemaker School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 48.6%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Salem County put the typical household earns roughly $79,960 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Salem County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,156 students), of which Mary S. Shoemaker School is one.

Woodstown Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mary S. Shoemaker School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 44.9%.

Mary S. Shoemaker School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 15%: 459 students in 2018 compared to 528 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.3:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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