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Enrollment
693
Elementary
DISTRICT 589 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRIDGETON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340225001800
Quarter Mile Lane School
300 QUARTER MILE LANE, BRIDGETON, NJ 08302 · (856) 455-8030 · Cumberland County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL693 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
12.1:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
641 students
DISTRICT 91% · 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 | 51 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 56 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 61 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 15% larger than its 8th grade class (61).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
Quarter Mile Lane School→Bridgeton High School
Based on grade levels within Bridgeton City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
15.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
8.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.1% | 8.4% |
| 2023-24 | 10.2% | 6.8% |
% 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
8.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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 Quarter Mile Lane School
Quarter Mile Lane School's state test result (8.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quarter Mile Lane School this school | 693 | 92.5% | 8.8% |
| Buckshutem Road School BRIDGETON | 653 | 92.0% | 7.5% |
| Dr. William H. Horton Elementary School NEWARK | 690 | 88.3% | 14.8% |
| Lindenwold School Four LINDENWOLD | 657 | 88.9% | 13.8% |
| Dr. E. Alma Flagg School NEWARK | 570 | 94.2% | 11.8% |
| LUIS MUNOZ MARIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Newark | 818 | 86.7% | 19.6% |
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 Quarter Mile Lane School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Cumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.8% | #1,264 of 1,290 | #29 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.4% | #1,276 of 1,319 ▲ 12 | #27 of 32 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.1% | #1,273 of 1,319 ▲ 17 | #25 of 32 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 693 | #121 of 1,562 | #2 of 37 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #899 of 1,390 | #19 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.0% | #1,114 of 1,392 | #27 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.5% | #34 of 1,481 | #4 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.5% | #591 of 798 | #16 of 24 |
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
693
-51 (-7%) vs 2020
+503% since 1990-91, when it was 115
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 693 | 57.5 | 12.1:1 | 92% (641) |
| 2023-24 | 667 | 54.5 | 12.2:1 | 66% (441) |
| 2022-23 | 699 | 56.5 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 744 | 65 | 11.4:1 | 76% (565) |
| 2017-18 | 733 | 61.5 | 11.9:1 | 64% (466) |
| 2015-16 | 338 | 34 | 9.9:1 | 7% (25) |
| 2010-11 | 282 | 24 | 11.8:1 | 84% (237) |
| 2000-01 | 283 | 16 | 17.7:1 | 77% (217) |
| 1990-91 | 115 | 8 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Quarter Mile Lane School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (733 to 693); teachers down 7% (61.5 to 57.5).
About Quarter Mile Lane School
Quarter Mile Lane School serves students in BRIDGETON, New Jersey, as a high-enrollment elementary school. The school enrolls 693 students in pre-K through 8. Elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students, which makes this school 71% larger than average.
Quarter Mile Lane School belongs to Bridgeton City School District, a district of 8 schools and 5,764 students.
About 77% of the student body at Quarter Mile Lane School is Hispanic. Other groups include 19% Black and 2% White. By comparison, Cumberland County residents are about 36% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 37, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.1:1. The school has 57.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is close to this figure. In all, 92% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 67% average for public schools in Cumberland County is 25 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Quarter Mile Lane School lands at D, ahead of 5% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Quarter Mile Lane School would score about 15.5%. It scores 8.8%, 6.8 points below that figure.
In the surrounding county, Cumberland County, the median household earns about $67,436 a year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Quarter Mile Lane School, Cumberland County has 52 public schools.
Broad Street School is about 0.8 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Quarter Mile Lane School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Quarter Mile Lane School ranks 5th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 8.8% against a local average of 10.9%.
Quarter Mile Lane School is coded as Town: Fringe in federal locale data.
The school's enrollment fell 7% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Cumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
153,305
Census ACS
Median income
$67,436
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
27,803 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bridgeton City School District
- Bridgeton High SchoolHigh · 1,641 students
- Broad Street SchoolElementary · 784 students
- Buckshutem Road SchoolElementary · 653 students
- Indian Ave SchoolElementary · 627 students
- West Avenue SchoolElementary · 528 students
- Cherry Street SchoolElementary · 522 students
Other schools in BRIDGETON
- Bridgeton High SchoolHigh · 1,641 students
- Cumberland Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Broad Street SchoolElementary · 784 students
- Buckshutem Road SchoolElementary · 653 students
- Indian Ave SchoolElementary · 627 students
- West Avenue SchoolElementary · 528 students
Nearby schools
- Broad Street School0.8 mi · 784
- West Avenue School1.0 mi · 528
- Bridgeton High School1.3 mi · 1,641
- Cherry Street School1.5 mi · 522
- Geraldyn O Foster Early Childhood Center1.8 mi · 316
- Buckshutem Road School1.8 mi · 653
Frequently asked questions
About Quarter Mile Lane SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Quarter Mile Lane School?
Quarter Mile Lane School enrolls approximately 693 students in grades PK-08.
Is Quarter Mile Lane School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Quarter Mile Lane School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Quarter Mile Lane School have?
Quarter Mile Lane School employs 58 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Quarter Mile Lane School?
At Quarter Mile Lane School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 77% Hispanic, 19% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Quarter Mile Lane School?
Quarter Mile Lane School is overseen by Bridgeton City School District in Cumberland County.
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