Merchantville Elementary School

Merchantville Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in MERCHANTVILLE, New Jersey, part of Merchantville School District. The school serves 394 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Merchantville Elementary School sits inside Merchantville School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Merchantville Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 30% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Camden County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Merchantville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Camden County) reports that median household income runs about $88,755, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Camden County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), Merchantville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Roosevelt Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (ST, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Merchantville Elementary School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 34.6%.

Merchantville Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Merchantville Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 403 (now 394). White enrollment moved from 55% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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