Veterans Memorial Family School

As a mid-sized K-5 school in CAMDEN, New Jersey, Veterans Memorial Family School caters to 474 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under Camden City School District.

Camden City School District runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 5,871 students. Veterans Memorial Family School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Veterans Memorial Family School logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 14% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, Veterans Memorial Family School logs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at Veterans Memorial Family School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Veterans Memorial Family School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.3%; this one comes in at 5.0%, -35.3 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Camden County put median household earnings sit near $88,755, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Veterans Memorial Family School is one of 158 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students).

Mastery Schools of Camden Inc. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Veterans Memorial Family School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Veterans Memorial Family School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 13.6%.

Veterans Memorial Family School operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Veterans Memorial Family School's enrollment has grew 4% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 474). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.