Penn Beach Elementary

Located at 96 KANSAS RD, in PENNSVILLE, New Jersey, Penn Beach Elementary is a small primary school that serves 263 students (grades 3 through 5), part of Pennsville School District. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 35% smaller than typical.

Pennsville School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,846 students; Penn Beach Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Penn Beach Elementary logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 15% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Penn Beach Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Salem County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,960 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Salem County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,156 students), of which Penn Beach Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Pennsville Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Penn Beach Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Penn Beach Elementary has contracted 8%, going from 285 students in 2018 to 263 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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