Oak Valley Elementary School

Oak Valley Elementary School is one of the cozy primary schools in WENONAH, New Jersey, one of the schools within Deptford Township Public School District, with 337 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5.

Across the 8 schools in Deptford Township Public School District (4,096 students total), Oak Valley Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Oak Valley Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest is composed of 12% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Oak Valley Elementary School shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Valley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Gloucester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,115 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Oak Valley Elementary School is one of 86 public schools in Gloucester County (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students).

The closest other public school is Pine Acres Early Childhood Center, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Valley Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Oak Valley Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

Oak Valley Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Oak Valley Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 337). Black enrollment moved from 15% to 10% across the same window.

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