Washington Avenue Elementary School

Washington Avenue Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in PLEASANTVILLE, New Jersey, one of the schools within Pleasantville Public School District. The school educates 432 students in grades K through 5.

Pleasantville Public School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,619 students. Washington Avenue Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Washington Avenue Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest reads as 13% Black. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 88% of students at Washington Avenue Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Atlantic County (around 59%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Washington Avenue Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.9%, the actual is 14.9%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Atlantic County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,050 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Washington Avenue Elementary School is one of 77 public schools in Atlantic County (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students).

The closest other public school is North Main Street Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Washington Avenue Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Washington Avenue Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 442 students in 2018 to 432 in 2025.

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