Pennsville Memorial High School

Pennsville Memorial High School operates as a compact high school in PENNSVILLE, New Jersey, operated by Pennsville School District. Current enrollment sits at 483 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Pennsville Memorial High School sits 48% below that benchmark.

Pennsville School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,846 students; Pennsville Memorial High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pennsville Memorial High School reports that White students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school reports 15% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at Pennsville Memorial High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Pennsville Memorial High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.2%; this one comes in at 18.3%, -26.9 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Salem County indicate median household income runs about $79,960, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Salem County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,156 students), Pennsville Memorial High School is one campus in the mix.

Pennsville Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pennsville Memorial High School. On composite proficiency, Pennsville Memorial High School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Pennsville Memorial High School's enrollment has grew 4% since 2018, when it stood at 464 (now 483). The White share of enrollment fell from 88% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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