North Main Street Elementary School

North Main Street Elementary School is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in PLEASANTVILLE, New Jersey, one of the schools within Pleasantville Public School District, with 318 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so North Main Street Elementary School sits 21% smaller than that benchmark.

Pleasantville Public School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,619 students. North Main Street Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, North Main Street Elementary School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%; the rest breaks down as 36% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 85% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, North Main Street Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.7%, the actual is 24.4%, a residual of +4.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Atlantic County put the typical household earns roughly $78,050 per year, 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), North Main Street Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Washington Avenue Elementary School 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. On composite proficiency, North Main Street Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 22.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Main Street Elementary School has declined 18%, going from 386 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 today.

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