Wedgwood Elementary School

Wedgwood Elementary School is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in SEWELL, New Jersey, one of the schools within Washington Township School District, instructing 465 students in grades K through 5.

Washington Township School District comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 9,381 students; Wedgwood Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wedgwood Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder comes out to 20% Black, 12% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Gloucester County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Wedgwood Elementary School records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wedgwood Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.9%.

In the surrounding community, Gloucester County reports that median household earnings sit near $105,115, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Wedgwood Elementary School is one of 86 public schools in Gloucester County (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students).

Bells Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wedgwood Elementary School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Wedgwood Elementary School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 460 (now 465). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 72% to 64%.

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