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Best Public Schools in Delair, NJ


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Top rankedDelair Elementary School1187th of 1,347 New Jersey elementary schools
Summary:

The city of Delair, New Jersey has only one public school, Delair Elementary School, which serves students from kindergarten through 6th grade. The school is part of the Pennsauken Township Board of Education School District. Delair Elementary School has consistently ranked in the bottom 20% of New Jersey elementary schools over the past 3 school years, with a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Academically, Delair Elementary School has struggled, with proficiency rates in both English Language Arts (25.3%) and Mathematics (22.6%) for 3rd-grade students significantly lower than the district (33.3% and 35.7%, respectively) and the state of New Jersey (44.9% and 49.8%, respectively) in the 2024-2025 school year. The school's proficiency rates have also declined from the previous year. Additionally, Delair Elementary School has a higher chronic absenteeism rate (14.9%) compared to the state average.

Socioeconomic factors may be contributing to the school's challenges, as Delair Elementary School has a high percentage of students (58.74%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a relatively low-income student population. The school's spending per student for the 2018-2019 school year was $8,537, which is lower than the state average. However, the school does have a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 9.4 to 1, which is better than the state average.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Jersey Department of Education.

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