Shawnee High School

Located at 600 TABERNACLE ROAD, in MEDFORD, New Jersey, Shawnee High School is a reasonably sized secondary school that instructs 1,387 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Lenape Regional High School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Shawnee High School sits 49% above that benchmark.

Lenape Regional High School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 6,439 students. Shawnee High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Shawnee High School lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Burlington County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 105 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Burlington County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Shawnee High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 61.0%; this one comes in at 46.1%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Burlington County indicate median household earnings sit near $108,111, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Shawnee High School is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).

Nearest neighbor: Nokomis School, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shawnee High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shawnee High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 52.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Shawnee High School's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,567 (now 1,387). White enrollment moved from 89% to 81% across the same window.

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