Milton H. Allen 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 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Milton H. Allen Elementary School
Milton H. Allen Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in MEDFORD, New Jersey, part of Medford Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 428 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Medford Township School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,901 students. Milton H. Allen Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Milton H. Allen Elementary School lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Milton H. Allen Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Burlington County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Milton H. Allen Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.8%; this one delivers 52.7%.
In the area at large, Burlington County reports that median household earnings sit near $108,111, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Milton H. Allen Elementary School is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).
Haines Sixth Grade Center 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 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Milton H. Allen Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.8%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Milton H. Allen Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 36% since 2018, when it stood at 315 (now 428). White enrollment moved from 90% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.
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