Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School

Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School is a high-enrollment K-5 school in HAMMONTON, New Jersey, overseen by Hammonton School District. The school enrolls 696 students in grades 2 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 72% bigger than typical.

Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Hammonton School District, a district that serves 3,278 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest looks like 34% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School has 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Atlantic County's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 37.6%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Atlantic County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,050 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Atlantic County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hammonton Early Childhood Educational Center, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Warren E. Sooy Jr. Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 884 students in 2018 compared to 696 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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