Stow Creek Township School

Stow Creek Township School is one of the rural-scale elementary-level communitys in BRIDGETON, New Jersey, one of the schools within Stow Creek Township School District, with 127 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 69% smaller than the state mean of about 405.

Stow Creek Township School sits inside Stow Creek Township School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Stow Creek Township School records that nearly all students (85%) are White. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Stow Creek Township School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 38% of students at Stow Creek Township School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cumberland County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Stow Creek Township School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 58.3%, a residual of +12.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cumberland County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,436 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cumberland County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,803 students), of which Stow Creek Township School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lower Alloways Creek Elementary School, around 3.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Stow Creek Township School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stow Creek Township School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 22.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stow Creek Township School has climbed 15%, going from 110 students in 2018 to 127 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 90% to 85%. Class-load math has rose: from 5.1:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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