Octavius V. Catto Community Family School

Octavius V. Catto Community Family School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in CAMDEN, New Jersey, overseen by Camden City School District. The school caters to 593 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 46% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Within Camden City School District, which oversees 16 schools and 5,871 students, Octavius V. Catto Community Family School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Octavius V. Catto Community Family School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Black. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 56% 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, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Octavius V. Catto Community Family School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.2%; actual is 16.7%, a gap of -18.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Camden County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Octavius V. Catto Community Family School is one of 158 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students).

The closest other public school is Eastside High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Octavius V. Catto Community Family School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Octavius V. Catto Community Family School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 13.7%.

Octavius V. Catto Community Family School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Octavius V. Catto Community Family School's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 638 (now 593). Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 79% to 74%.

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