Summary:
Absecon has two schools: H Ashton Marsh, serving prekindergarten through grade 4, and Emma C Attales, serving grades 5–8; the list includes no high school. The available proficiency results cover 2024–25 and 2025–26. Because the schools serve different grades, their results are best understood against state results for the same grades. The most important area-wide concern is math: both schools’ grade-averaged 2025–26 math results were below their state comparisons.
Attales stands out for ELA: its 2025–26 average was 59%, compared with 53% statewide, and it was above the state in grades 5–7 by 7, 8 and 11 percentage points, respectively. Its grade 8 ELA result was 3 points below the state. Attales’ math average was 31%, versus 37% statewide, though grade 7 was 10 points above the state and grade 5 was 19 points below. Its 97% Algebra I proficiency was 23 points above the state comparison. Marsh was below the state in both subjects: its ELA average was 41% versus 47%, and its math average was 32% versus 48%. Its largest listed gap was grade 3 math, 18 points below the state.
Math results weakened relative to the state overall: the average gap widened from 3 points below in 2024–25 to 11 points below in 2025–26, with the gap growing at both schools. ELA averages were roughly at the state level in both years, masking different school trends: Attales moved from below to above the state, while Marsh fell further behind. SchoolDigger gives Attales 3 stars and Marsh 2; their 2025–26 percentiles were 56 and 31, respectively, but the schools belong to different ranking groups. In 2024–25, Marsh had a student-teacher ratio of 8.5 versus 11.1 at Attales, and free/reduced lunch eligible shares of 53% and 57%, respectively; these are contextual differences, not explanations for test results. The schools’ different grade spans limit direct school-to-school comparisons.
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