Paulsboro Junior High School

Set in Paulsboro, New Jersey, Paulsboro Junior High School is a minimally staffed middle school, operated by Paulsboro School District. It educates 155 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 578 students each, so Paulsboro Junior High School sits 73% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Paulsboro School District (1,171 students total), Paulsboro Junior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Paulsboro Junior High School shows that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 29% Hispanic, 18% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Paulsboro Junior High School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.9:1, putting Paulsboro Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Gloucester County (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Paulsboro Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.3%, the actual is 7.8%, a residual of -13.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Gloucester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $105,115 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Gloucester County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students), of which Paulsboro Junior High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Paulsboro High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Paulsboro Junior High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Paulsboro Junior High School has shrank 5%, going from 163 students in 2018 to 155 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Paulsboro Junior High School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.