South Main Street Elementary School

South Main Street Elementary School is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in PLEASANTVILLE, New Jersey, overseen by Pleasantville Public School District, teacheing 455 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Pleasantville Public School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,619 students. South Main Street Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, South Main Street Elementary School reports that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 31% Black. By comparison, Atlantic County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Atlantic County's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South Main Street Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.7%, the actual is 22.0%, a residual of +1.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Atlantic County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,050, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Atlantic County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), South Main Street Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Washington Avenue Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, South Main Street Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 489 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 38% to 31% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, members of the South Main Street Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.