Upper Pittsgrove School

Upper Pittsgrove School operates as an intimate elementary-level community in MONROEVILLE, New Jersey, overseen by UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP School District. Current enrollment sits at 340 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

Operationally, Upper Pittsgrove School answers to UPPER PITTSGROVE TWP School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Upper Pittsgrove School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Upper Pittsgrove School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Salem County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Upper Pittsgrove School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.1%; this one delivers 53.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Salem County) shows that median household income runs about $79,960, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Salem County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,156 students), of which Upper Pittsgrove School is one.

Elmer Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Upper Pittsgrove School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Upper Pittsgrove School has showed little movement, going from 336 students in 2018 to 340 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 336.0:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

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