Smithville Elementary School

Smithville Elementary School operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in GALLOWAY, New Jersey, one of the schools within Galloway Township Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 572 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 41% above typical.

Galloway Township Public School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,119 students. Smithville Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Smithville Elementary School lists that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic, 19% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Atlantic County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Smithville Elementary School logs 55 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 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Atlantic County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Smithville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.0%, the actual is 33.8%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Atlantic County put median household income runs about $78,050, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Atlantic County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), of which Smithville Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Atlantic Community Charter School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Smithville Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.3%.

Smithville Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 692 students in 2018 compared to 572 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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