Swift-Slaybaugh Complex

Swift-Slaybaugh Complex is an elementary campus of big scale in EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, New Jersey, overseen by Egg Harbor Township School District, serveing 1,422 students in grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 251% above the state mean of about 405.

Egg Harbor Township School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 7,346 students. Swift-Slaybaugh Complex is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Swift-Slaybaugh Complex shows that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Atlantic County as a whole.

On the resource side, Swift-Slaybaugh Complex records 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Atlantic County (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Swift-Slaybaugh Complex tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Atlantic County put median household earnings sit near $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 Swift-Slaybaugh Complex is one.

Egg Harbor Township High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Swift-Slaybaugh Complex comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 62%: 877 students in 2018 compared to 1,422 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 53% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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