Penns Grove High School

Penns Grove High School is a four-year high school of small scale in CARNEYS POINT, New Jersey, one of the schools within Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District, works with 632 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 32% smaller than typical.

Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,182 students. Penns Grove High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Penns Grove High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 35% Black, 15% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Penns Grove High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Salem County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Penns Grove High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 28.1%; actual is 11.9%, a gap of -16.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, 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%. Penns Grove High School is one of 33 public schools in Salem County (combined enrollment of about 11,156 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lafayette - Pershing, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Penns Grove High School at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 21.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Penns Grove High School has expanded 28%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 632 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 35% to 47%. Class-load math has loosened: from 9.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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