Thomas H. Dudley Family School

Thomas H. Dudley Family School is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Camden, New Jersey, run under Camden City School District, hosting 549 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 36% larger than the state mean of about 405.

Across the 16 schools in Camden City School District (5,871 students total), Thomas H. Dudley Family School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Thomas H. Dudley Family School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%; the rest breaks down as 24% Black, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Thomas H. Dudley Family School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.2%; Thomas H. Dudley Family School posts 8.9%, -30.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Camden County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Camden County runs 158 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students), of which Thomas H. Dudley Family School is one.

Mastery Schools of Camden Inc. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thomas H. Dudley Family School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 10.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas H. Dudley Family School has rose 3%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 549 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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