Port Republic Elementary School District

Set in PORT REPUBLIC, New Jersey, Port Republic Elementary School District is an one-room-style elementary-level community, part of Port Republic School District. It enrolls 110 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 73% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 405 students.

Port Republic Elementary School District is a school of Port Republic School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Port Republic Elementary School District records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 56% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 3% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Atlantic County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Port Republic Elementary School District performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 57.1%, a residual of -7.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Atlantic County shows median household income runs about $78,050, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Atlantic County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), Port Republic Elementary School District is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Smithville Elementary School, roughly 2.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Port Republic Elementary School District. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Port Republic Elementary School District at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 27.8%.

Port Republic Elementary School District operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Port Republic Elementary School District has edged down 4%, going from 114 students in 2018 to 110 in 2025.

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