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Enrollment
566
Elementary
DISTRICT 461 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ATLANTIC CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340096000026
Pennsylvania Ave School
201 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ 08401 · (609) 343-7290 · Atlantic County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL566 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
485 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 74 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 39 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 43 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 63% larger than its 8th grade class (43).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Pennsylvania Ave School→Atlantic City High School
Based on grade levels within Atlantic City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
29.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
8.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.2% | 8.6% |
| 2023-24 | 26.8% | 8.1% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
15.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pennsylvania Ave School
Pennsylvania Ave School's state test result (15.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Ave School this school | 566 | 85.7% | 15.7% |
| Whitney M. Young Jr. School JERSEY CITY | 623 | 86.7% | 6.5% |
| Jersey City Community Charter School JERSEY CITY | 561 | 82.5% | 28.5% |
| New York Avenue School Atlantic City | 550 | 91.8% | 7.6% |
| Uptown School Complex Atlantic City | 518 | 90.3% | 10.4% |
| Quitman Street School NEWARK | 706 | 84.4% | 9.7% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pennsylvania Ave School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Atlantic County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.7% | #1,189 of 1,290 | #32 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.6% | #1,272 of 1,319 ▲ 2 | #33 of 38 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.2% | #1,115 of 1,319 ▼ 1 | #28 of 38 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 566 | #282 of 1,562 | #13 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #491 of 1,390 | #26 of 38 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.3% | #685 of 1,392 | #23 of 38 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.7% | #118 of 1,481 | #12 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.3% | #497 of 545 | #8 of 9 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
566
+17 (+3%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 693
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 9.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 566 | 53.8 | 10.5:1 | 86% (485) |
| 2023-24 | 541 | 56.3 | 9.6:1 | 83% (451) |
| 2022-23 | 531 | 55.7 | 9.5:1 | 89% (473) |
| 2020-21 | 549 | 59 | 9.3:1 | 85% (464) |
| 2017-18 | 559 | 53.1 | 10.5:1 | 95% (531) |
| 2015-16 | 570 | 50 | 11.4:1 | 87% (495) |
| 2010-11 | 347 | 39 | 8.9:1 | 86% (298) |
| 2000-01 | 661 | 56 | 11.8:1 | 94% (619) |
| 1990-91 | 693 | 41 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pennsylvania Ave School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (559 to 566); teachers up 1% (53.1 to 53.8).
About Pennsylvania Ave School
Pennsylvania Ave School is a medium-sized elementary school in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The school reports 566 students in pre-K through 8. The typical figure for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405 students.
Pennsylvania Ave School is among 11 schools run by Atlantic City School District, which serves 6,339 students.
At 58%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Pennsylvania Ave School combined. Other students are 34% Hispanic and 4% Asian. By comparison, Atlantic County residents are about 13% Black. Pennsylvania Ave School has a diversity index of 54%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at Pennsylvania Ave School is 53.8 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 10.5:1. Among elementary schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 11.4:1. The school counts 485 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 86%. The rate at public schools in Atlantic County averages 59%, lower than here.
Pennsylvania Ave School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 10% of New Jersey public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Pennsylvania Ave School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 15.7%, compared with a predicted 19.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Atlantic County this way: median household income is about $78,050, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Federal data list 77 public schools in Atlantic County, with a combined enrollment of about 41,964.
The nearest other public school, Uptown School Complex, is about 0.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Pennsylvania Ave School is 5th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around Pennsylvania Ave School as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Pennsylvania Ave School saw enrollment rise 3% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. The school's ratio rose from 9.3:1 to 10.5:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The Pennsylvania Ave School community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Atlantic County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
276,270
Census ACS
Median income
$78,050
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
41,964 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Atlantic City School District
- Atlantic City High SchoolHigh · 1,731 students
- Sovereign Avenue SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Richmond Avenue SchoolElementary · 609 students
- New York Avenue SchoolElementary · 550 students
- Dr Martin Luther King Jr School ComplexElementary · 544 students
- Uptown School ComplexElementary · 518 students
Other schools in Atlantic City
- Atlantic City High SchoolHigh · 1,731 students
- Sovereign Avenue SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Richmond Avenue SchoolElementary · 609 students
- New York Avenue SchoolElementary · 550 students
- Dr Martin Luther King Jr School ComplexElementary · 544 students
- Uptown School ComplexElementary · 518 students
Nearby schools
- Uptown School Complex0.3 mi · 518
- New York Avenue School0.7 mi · 550
- Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Complex1.0 mi · 544
- Texas Avenue School1.4 mi · 496
- Venice Park School1.7 mi · 39
- Brighton Avenue School1.7 mi · 302
Frequently asked questions
About Pennsylvania Ave SchoolHow many students attend Pennsylvania Ave School?
Pennsylvania Ave School enrolls approximately 566 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Pennsylvania Ave School serve?
Pennsylvania Ave School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Pennsylvania Ave School?
Approximately 10.5:1 students per teacher at Pennsylvania Ave School.
What is the student diversity at Pennsylvania Ave School?
Student demographics at Pennsylvania Ave School are roughly 2% White, 34% Hispanic, 58% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Pennsylvania Ave School public or private?
Pennsylvania Ave School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Atlantic City School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.