Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CAMDEN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340264001408
Yorkship Elementary School
1251 Collings Road, CAMDEN, NJ 08104 · (856) 966-5110 · Camden County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
7.8:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
176 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 59 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 8% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 69% larger than its 5th grade class (26).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Yorkship Elementary School→Morgan Village Middle School
Based on grade levels within Camden City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
20.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +8.7pp since 2023
Math
7.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 20.2% | 7.9% |
| 2023-24 | 11.5% | 9.7% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
10.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% 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.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Yorkship Elementary School
Yorkship Elementary School's state test result (10.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkship Elementary School this school | 310 | 56.8% | 10.4% |
| Norman S. Weir PATERSON | 272 | 59.2% | 34.9% |
| Garfield ECDC Willingboro | 294 | 56.1% | N/A |
| Forest Hill School CAMDEN | 339 | 63.7% | 11.9% |
| Lawnside School District LAWNSIDE | 333 | 48.9% | 16.3% |
| Henry B. Wilson Family School CAMDEN | 377 | 66.8% | 6.6% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Yorkship Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Camden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.4% | #1,249 of 1,290 | #81 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.9% | #1,282 of 1,319 ▼ 27 | #83 of 85 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #1,225 of 1,319 ▲ 49 | #78 of 85 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #1,065 of 1,562 | #57 of 95 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.8:1 | #33 of 1,390 | #3 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.3% | #851 of 1,392 | #52 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.8% | #499 of 1,481 | #25 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.6% | #51 of 798 | #5 of 37 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
310
-124 (-29%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 497
Student : Teacher
7.8:1
was 12.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 310 | 39.5 | 7.8:1 | 57% (176) |
| 2023-24 | 319 | 37 | 8.6:1 | 56% (180) |
| 2022-23 | 320 | 40 | 8.0:1 | 80% (256) |
| 2020-21 | 434 | 34 | 12.8:1 | 65% (281) |
| 2017-18 | 453 | 40 | 11.3:1 | 72% (324) |
| 2015-16 | 561 | 43 | 13.1:1 | 64% (360) |
| 2010-11 | 650 | 46 | 14.1:1 | 84% (544) |
| 2000-01 | 885 | 56 | 15.8:1 | 70% (623) |
| 1990-91 | 497 | 26 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Yorkship Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (453 to 310); teachers down 1% (40 to 39.5).
About Yorkship Elementary School
Yorkship Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school located in CAMDEN, New Jersey. It reported 310 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in New Jersey have about 405 students on average; enrollment here is 23% lower.
Federal data list 16 schools in Camden City School District, with 5,871 students enrolled.
The student body at Yorkship Elementary School is 64% Black. Other reported shares: 33% Hispanic. Camden County's residents are about 19% Black, 45 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 48, compared with 70 nationally.
Classroom staffing at Yorkship Elementary School totals 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 7.8:1. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey, 11.4:1, is higher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Yorkship Elementary School is about 57%.
Yorkship Elementary School holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 1% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Yorkship Elementary School would score about 35.1%. It scores 10.4%, a bottom-10% result among New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is Camden County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $88,755 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Camden County number 158, with about 82,104 students.
The closest school to Yorkship Elementary School is Morgan Village Middle School, located about 0.7 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 10.4% is below the 20.5% average for nearby schools.
Yorkship Elementary School falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 29% decline, from 434 to 310. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.8:1 in 2020-21, and 7.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Camden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
527,257
Census ACS
Median income
$88,755
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
158
82,104 students
Quick facts
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Nearby schools
- Morgan Village Middle School0.7 mi · 203
- Henry B. Wilson Family School0.9 mi · 377
- Thomas Sharp Elementary School1.0 mi · 211
- Riletta Twyne Cream Early Childhood Center1.1 mi · 349
- Woodlynne Boro Public School1.2 mi · 407
- Collingswood Pre School at Oaklyn1.2 mi · 43
Frequently asked questions
About Yorkship Elementary SchoolHow large is Yorkship Elementary School?
Yorkship Elementary School enrolls approximately 310 students in grades PK-05.
Is Yorkship Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Yorkship Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Yorkship Elementary School have?
Yorkship Elementary School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 7.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Yorkship Elementary School?
Student demographics at Yorkship Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 33% Hispanic, 64% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Yorkship Elementary School?
Yorkship Elementary School is overseen by Camden City School District in Camden County.
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