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Pemberton Township High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pemberton Township High School
Set in PEMBERTON, New Jersey, Pemberton Township High School is an average-sized senior high, one of the schools within Pemberton Township School District. It instructs 972 students across grades 9 through 12.
Across the 9 schools in Pemberton Township School District (4,261 students total), Pemberton Township High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Pemberton Township High School logs that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Black, 20% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Burlington County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Pemberton Township High School has 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Burlington County's rate of about 32%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pemberton Township High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.3%; this one comes in at 18.9%, -20.4 points off the demographic line.
Around the school, census data for Burlington County shows median household income runs about $108,111, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Burlington County runs 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), of which Pemberton Township High School is one.
Pemberton Early Childhood Education Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pemberton Township High School. On composite proficiency, Pemberton Township High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 1,006 students in 2018 compared to 972 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 53% to 46%. Class-load math has grew: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.
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