Gloucester City Public School District

Gloucester City Public School District has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Cold Springs School (PK–3), Gloucester City Middle School (grades 4–8) and Gloucester City High School (grades 9–12); together, they enroll 2,394 students. The latest test results are generally below state results, though performance varies by grade and subject. Math is the clearest shared concern: grade 3 math at Cold Springs was 19 points below the state, middle-school math averaged 19 points below, and grade 11 NJGPA math at the high school was 21 points below. The most important takeaway is that math is the most consistent academic shortfall across the area’s schools.

SchoolDigger ranks the middle school highest locally, at the 30th percentile, just ahead of the high school at the 29th percentile; Cold Springs is at the 24th percentile. The middle school also has a notable bright spot: 8th-grade Algebra I proficiency was 79%, compared with 75% statewide, or 5 points higher. That result contrasts with its grade 5 math score of 18% versus 46% statewide, a 28-point gap. At the high school, the Algebra I End-of-Course result was 10% versus 40% statewide, 30 points lower. The middle-school Algebra End-of-Course entry reports a different state comparison from its grade 8 entry, so those figures merit clarification.

Recent trends are mixed: middle-school math improved relative to the state, with its average gap narrowing from 22 points in 2024–2025 to 19 points in 2025–2026, while high-school grade 9 ELA fell from 64% to 45% and moved from 14 points above the state to 6 points below. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile rose at Cold Springs from 17 in 2023–2024 to 24 in 2025–2026, while the high school’s fell from 39 to 29. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios ranged from 11.2 at Cold Springs to 14.7 at the high school; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 66%, 64% and 56%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism was above the 14% state figure at all three schools, ranging from 19% at the middle school to 26% at Cold Springs.