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Enrollment
486
Elementary
DISTRICT 487 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VINELAND PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341680000807
Pauline J. Petway Elementary School
1115 SO LINCOLN AVE, VINELAND, NJ 08361 · (856) 362-8855 · Cumberland County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL486 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
234 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
46.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
25.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 25.9% |
| 2023-24 | 44.6% | 27.4% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pauline J. Petway Elementary School
Pauline J. Petway Elementary School's state test result (33.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pauline J. Petway Elementary School this school | 486 | 48.1% | 33.0% |
| John H. Winslow Elementary School VINELAND | 472 | 52.1% | 30.7% |
| Franklin Elementary School Bloomfield | 352 | 47.7% | 51.0% |
| Sixteenth Avenue School ELMWOOD PARK | 410 | 53.2% | 32.8% |
| Gilbert Avenue School ELMWOOD PARK | 456 | 57.7% | 38.4% |
| Anthony Rossi Elementary School VINELAND | 595 | 57.1% | 34.5% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pauline J. Petway Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #906 of 1,290 | #8 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #1,055 of 1,319 ▼ 73 | #14 of 32 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #808 of 1,319 ▼ 10 | #4 of 32 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 486 | #434 of 1,562 | #16 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,051 of 1,390 | #25 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.0% | #381 of 1,392 | #13 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.1% | #607 of 1,481 | #30 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.6% | #366 of 798 | #9 of 24 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
486
-18 (-4%) vs 2020
-14% since 2010-11, when it was 562
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 11.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 486 | 38 | 12.8:1 | 48% (234) |
| 2023-24 | 494 | 40 | 12.3:1 | 45% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 499 | 40 | 12.5:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2020-21 | 504 | 44 | 11.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 550 | 42 | 13.1:1 | 44% (241) |
| 2015-16 | 551 | 46 | 12.0:1 | 53% (291) |
| 2010-11 | 562 | 45 | 12.5:1 | 61% (341) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pauline J. Petway Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (550 to 486); teachers down 10% (42 to 38).
About Pauline J. Petway Elementary School
Pauline J. Petway Elementary School serves students in VINELAND, New Jersey, as a mid-sized elementary school. The school has 486 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5.
Vineland Public School District includes 14 schools. Together they enroll 9,392 students.
The largest group at Pauline J. Petway Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 52%. Smaller groups are 27% White, 13% Black, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. County-wide, 36% of Cumberland County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for Pauline J. Petway Elementary School is 63%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 12.8 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey, 11.4:1, is lower. Pauline J. Petway Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 48%. Among public schools in Cumberland County, the average eligibility rate is 67%.
On the allk12 Grade, Pauline J. Petway Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 18% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Pauline J. Petway Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools: 33.0% actual against 39.8% predicted.
The county, Cumberland County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $67,436, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. The county's public schools total 52, with about 27,803 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Vineland Senior High School, is about 0.7 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Pauline J. Petway Elementary School is 3rd among 9 schools close by.
Pauline J. Petway Elementary School is coded as Rural: Fringe in federal locale data.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 486, compared with 504 in 2020-21. Students per teacher increased from 11.4 in 2020-21 to 12.8 in 2024-25.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
153,305
Census ACS
Median income
$67,436
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
27,803 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Vineland Public School District
- Vineland Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,736 students
- Thomas W. Wallace Jr. Middle SchoolMiddle · 695 students
- Gloria M Sabater Elementary SchoolElementary · 678 students
- Sgt. Dominick Pilla Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
- Veterans Memorial MiddleMiddle · 603 students
- Anthony Rossi Elementary SchoolElementary · 595 students
Other schools in VINELAND
- Vineland Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,736 students
- Thomas W. Wallace Jr. Middle SchoolMiddle · 695 students
- Gloria M Sabater Elementary SchoolElementary · 678 students
- Sgt. Dominick Pilla Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
- Veterans Memorial MiddleMiddle · 603 students
- Anthony Rossi Elementary SchoolElementary · 595 students
Nearby schools
- Vineland Senior High School0.7 mi · 2,736
- Edward Johnstone Middle School1.0 mi · 355
- Anthony Rossi Elementary School1.4 mi · 595
- John H. Winslow Elementary School1.6 mi · 472
- Veterans Memorial Middle1.7 mi · 603
- Sgt. Dominick Pilla Middle School2.5 mi · 620
Frequently asked questions
About Pauline J. Petway Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Pauline J. Petway Elementary School?
Pauline J. Petway Elementary School enrolls approximately 486 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Pauline J. Petway Elementary School serve?
Pauline J. Petway Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pauline J. Petway Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pauline J. Petway Elementary School is approximately 12.8:1 (38 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Pauline J. Petway Elementary School?
Pauline J. Petway Elementary School reports a student body of 27% White, 52% Hispanic, 13% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Pauline J. Petway Elementary School?
Pauline J. Petway Elementary School is overseen by Vineland Public School District in Cumberland County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.