Samuel T. Busansky School

Samuel T. Busansky School operates as a tight-knit primary school in PEMBERTON, New Jersey, part of Pemberton Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 283 students spanning grades 3 through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Samuel T. Busansky School sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Pemberton Township School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,261 students; Samuel T. Busansky School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Samuel T. Busansky School lists that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 22% Black, 15% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Burlington County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Samuel T. Busansky School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.0%; actual is 22.9%, a gap of -17.1 points.

In the area at large, Burlington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $108,111 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Samuel T. Busansky School is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).

Nearest neighbor: Howard L. Emmons, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Samuel T. Busansky School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Samuel T. Busansky School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 33.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Samuel T. Busansky School has ticked down 14%, going from 330 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 53% to 38% over that span.

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