Morgan Village Middle 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 6 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 7 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 5% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 28% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About Morgan Village Middle School
Morgan Village Middle School is one of the minimally staffed middle-grades schools in Camden, New Jersey, one of the schools within Camden City School District, with 203 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 65% leaner than the state mean of about 578.
Across the 16 schools in Camden City School District (5,871 students total), Morgan Village Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Morgan Village Middle School reports that 65% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 33% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
On the resource side, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.1:1. The state averages around 10.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Camden County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Morgan Village Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 28.4%; this one comes in at 5.0%, -23.4 points off the demographic line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Camden County) shows that median household earnings sit near $88,755, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Camden County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), of which Morgan Village Middle School is one.
Henry B. Wilson Family School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Morgan Village Middle School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.4%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
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