Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center

Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in CAMDEN, New Jersey, part of Camden City School District, caters to 349 students in grades pre-K through 3.

Within Camden City School District, which oversees 16 schools and 5,871 students, Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center shows that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at school resources, Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Camden County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 15.6%, a residual of -10.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Camden County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Camden County's 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Camden Prep Inc., around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 14.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 349 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 72% to 67% over that span.

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