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Springville Elementary School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Springville Elementary School
Set in MT LAUREL, New Jersey, Springville Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary campus, overseen by Mount Laurel Township School District. It works with 480 students across grades pre-K through 4.
Mount Laurel Township School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,173 students. Springville Elementary School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Springville Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 24% Asian, 13% multiracial, 12% Black, 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Burlington County's rate of about 32%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Springville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.3%, the actual is 56.4%, a residual of -0.8 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Burlington County shows the typical household earns roughly $108,111 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Burlington County's 139 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students), Springville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
T. E. Harrington Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Springville Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Springville Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 494 (now 480). Over the same period, the White share declined from 53% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.
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