Pitman Jr./Sr. High School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pitman Jr./Sr. High School
Pitman Jr./Sr. High School, a modestly sized senior high in Pitman, New Jersey, run under Pitman Boro School District, works with 471 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Pitman Jr./Sr. High School sits 49% leaner than that benchmark.
Across the 3 schools in Pitman Boro School District (1,170 students total), Pitman Jr./Sr. High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Pitman Jr./Sr. High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Pitman Jr./Sr. High School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Pitman Jr./Sr. High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at Pitman Jr./Sr. High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Gloucester County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Pitman Jr./Sr. High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.8%; this one comes in at 39.2%, -14.6 points off the demographic line.
Across the wider county, census data for Gloucester County shows median household income runs about $105,115, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Gloucester County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students), of which Pitman Jr./Sr. High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Pitman Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pitman Jr./Sr. High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.8%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pitman Jr./Sr. High School has grew 18%, going from 400 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025.
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