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Enrollment
583
Elementary
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDGEWATER PARK TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340447001062
Mildred Magowan Elementary School
405 CHERRIX AVENUE, EDGEWATER PARK, NJ 08010 · (609) 877-1430 · Burlington County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 58% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
395 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 69 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 126 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 22% larger than its 4th grade class (85).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Mildred Magowan Elementary School→Samuel M Ridgway Middle School
Based on grade levels within Edgewater Park Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
40.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
42.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.2% | 42.1% |
| 2023-24 | 35.5% | 39.6% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mildred Magowan Elementary School
Mildred Magowan Elementary School's state test result (39.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mildred Magowan Elementary School this school | 583 | 67.8% | 39.5% |
| John H. Glenn School PINE HILL | 469 | 69.5% | 22.5% |
| Clementon Elementary School CLEMENTON | 586 | 70.6% | 42.0% |
| Blackwood Elementary School BLACKWOOD | 574 | 60.3% | 28.3% |
| Phillipsburg Elementary School PHILLIPSBURG | 621 | 77.0% | 26.3% |
| Roland Rogers Elementary School GALLOWAY | 578 | 61.2% | 31.6% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mildred Magowan Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Burlington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #759 of 1,290 | #35 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #737 of 1,319 ▲ 15 | #33 of 56 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.2% | #929 of 1,319 ▲ 50 | #40 of 56 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #253 of 1,562 | #13 of 76 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #449 of 1,390 | #24 of 70 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #105 of 1,392 | #16 of 70 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.8% | #383 of 1,481 | #6 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.2% | #244 of 545 | #21 of 32 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
583
+71 (+14%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 614
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 11.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 583 | 56.1 | 10.4:1 | 68% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 563 | 51.1 | 11.0:1 | 58% (324) |
| 2022-23 | 525 | 48.9 | 10.7:1 | 52% (272) |
| 2020-21 | 512 | 44 | 11.6:1 | 51% (260) |
| 2017-18 | 529 | 40.2 | 13.2:1 | 50% (264) |
| 2015-16 | 522 | 41 | 12.7:1 | 54% (284) |
| 2010-11 | 516 | 36 | 14.3:1 | 42% (215) |
| 2000-01 | 549 | 36 | 15.3:1 | 31% (172) |
| 1990-91 | 614 | 38 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mildred Magowan Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (529 to 583); teachers up 40% (40.2 to 56.1).
About Mildred Magowan Elementary School
Mildred Magowan Elementary School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in EDGEWATER PARK, New Jersey. The school's enrollment of 583 students covers pre-K through 4. Enrollment is 44% higher than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey, which is about 405.
Enrollment across the 2 schools in Edgewater Park Township School District totals 1,000 students.
Enrollment at Mildred Magowan Elementary School is mixed, with White students the largest group at 34%. After that, the student body is 31% Black, 26% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census figures show Burlington County is about 64% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Mildred Magowan Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 72%.
With 56.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Mildred Magowan Elementary School was 10.4:1. Among elementary schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 11.4:1. Mildred Magowan Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 68%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Burlington County is 32%.
allk12 grades Mildred Magowan Elementary School a B. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mildred Magowan Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 39.5% actual against 29.1% predicted.
Across Burlington County, median household income is about $108,111, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Mildred Magowan Elementary School is among the 139 public schools in Burlington County.
The closest public school to Mildred Magowan Elementary School is Beverly City School District, about 0.8 miles away. Within five miles of Mildred Magowan Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Mildred Magowan Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The student count in 2024-25 was 583, 14% above the 512 of 2020-21. The school's ratio fell from 11.6:1 to 10.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Burlington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
467,805
Census ACS
Median income
$108,111
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
139
69,020 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edgewater Park Township School District
- Samuel M Ridgway Middle SchoolMiddle · 417 students
Other schools in EDGEWATER PARK
- Samuel M Ridgway Middle SchoolMiddle · 417 students
Nearby schools
- Beverly City School District0.8 mi · 342
- Samuel M Ridgway Middle School0.9 mi · 417
- J.C.Stuart ECDC1.0 mi · 365
- Benjamin Banneker Preparatory Charter School1.1 mi · 356
- W. R. James Sr. Elementary School1.8 mi · 408
- M. Joan Pearson School2.1 mi · 355
Frequently asked questions
About Mildred Magowan Elementary SchoolHow large is Mildred Magowan Elementary School?
Mildred Magowan Elementary School enrolls approximately 583 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Mildred Magowan Elementary School serve?
Mildred Magowan Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at Mildred Magowan Elementary School?
Approximately 10.4:1 students per teacher at Mildred Magowan Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Mildred Magowan Elementary School?
Student demographics at Mildred Magowan Elementary School are roughly 34% White, 26% Hispanic, 31% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Mildred Magowan Elementary School?
Mildred Magowan Elementary School is overseen by Edgewater Park Township School District in Burlington County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.