Pitman Elementary School

Pitman Elementary School is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in Pitman, New Jersey, run under Pitman Boro School District, with 430 students on its rolls from grades 2 through 6.

Within Pitman Boro School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,170 students, Pitman Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Pitman Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder comes out to 9% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Gloucester County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Pitman Elementary School reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pitman Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Gloucester County indicate median household earnings sit near $105,115, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Gloucester County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students), of which Pitman Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Pitman Jr./Sr. High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pitman Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

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