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Vineland Senior High School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 8 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 4 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 32% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Vineland Senior High School
Located at 2880 E CHESTNUT AVE, in VINELAND, New Jersey, Vineland Senior High School is a roomy 9-12 campus that teaches 2,736 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Vineland Public School District. That puts it 195% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.
Within Vineland Public School District, which oversees 14 schools and 9,392 students, Vineland Senior High School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Vineland Senior High School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 17% Black, 16% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 36% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 187 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at Vineland Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Vineland Senior High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.4%; actual is 9.9%, a gap of -22.5 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Cumberland County shows median household earnings sit near $67,436, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Vineland Senior High School is one of 52 public schools in Cumberland County (combined enrollment of about 27,803 students).
Nearest neighbor: Edward Johnstone Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Vineland Senior High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vineland Senior High School has expanded 7%, going from 2,554 students in 2018 to 2,736 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 54% to 63%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.
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