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Northern Burlington County Regional High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Northern Burlington County Regional High School
Northern Burlington County Regional High School operates as a mid-tier high school in COLUMBUS, New Jersey, overseen by Northern Burlington County Regional School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,324 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 43% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.
Northern Burlington County Regional School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 2,059 students; Northern Burlington County Regional High School is among them.
Demographically, Northern Burlington County Regional High School logs that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 16% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 9% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Burlington County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 111 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Northern Burlington County Regional High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Burlington County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Northern Burlington County Regional High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.5%; actual is 42.0%, a gap of -15.5 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Burlington County indicate 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%. In all, Burlington County runs 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), of which Northern Burlington County Regional High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Mansfield Township Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northern Burlington County Regional High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northern Burlington County Regional High School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 52.2%.
Northern Burlington County Regional High School operates from a low-density location.
Five-year trend. Northern Burlington County Regional High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 1,335 (now 1,324). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 66% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.
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- Northern Burlington County Regional Middle SchoolMiddle · 735 students
- Northern Burlington County Regional Middle SchoolMiddle · 735 students
- Mansfield Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- John Hydock Elementary SchoolElementary · 245 students
- Mansfield Township Elementary School0.2 mi · 303
- Northern Burlington County Regional Middle School0.3 mi · 735
- John Hydock Elementary School2.0 mi · 245
- Bordentown Regional Middle School3.4 mi · 504
- Springfield Township School3.7 mi · 297
- Chesterfield Township Elementary School3.8 mi · 675