Principle Academy Charter School

Principle Academy Charter School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, part of Principle Academy Charter School. Current enrollment sits at 434 students spanning grades K through 6.

Principle Academy Charter School is the operating authority for Principle Academy Charter School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Principle Academy Charter School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 37% Black, 3% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Atlantic County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Atlantic County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Principle Academy Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Atlantic County put the typical household earns roughly $78,050 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Atlantic County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), of which Principle Academy Charter School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pleasantville High School, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Principle Academy Charter School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. Principle Academy Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 15%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 434 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 57% to 37%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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