Mullica Township Primary School

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in ELWOOD, New Jersey, Mullica Township Primary School caters to 371 students from grades pre-K through 4, one of the schools within Mullica Township School District.

Mullica Township School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 633 students. Mullica Township Primary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mullica Township Primary School records that White students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 56%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 47% 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, Atlantic County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Mullica Township Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 34.4%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the area at large, Atlantic County reports that median household income runs about $78,050, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Atlantic County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), Mullica Township Primary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mullica Township Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Mullica Township Primary School. On composite proficiency, Mullica Township Primary School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mullica Township Primary School's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 371). Class-load math has tightened: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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