Summary:
ZIP code 08021 has six elementary schools enrolling 2,851 students, or about 475 per school on average; grades range from grade 2 at the youngest entry point to grade 8, with some schools serving pre-K or kindergarten and others covering narrower spans. The clearest area-wide concern is mathematics: all 15 reported grade 3–5 school scores were below the state, averaging 23 percentage points below it, compared with an average 13-point shortfall in ELA.
Laurel Springs School stands out in ELA, scoring 59% in grade 3, 58% in grade 5 and 59% in grade 6—about 11, 6 and 8 points above the state, respectively. Clementon Elementary School led the matched schools in grade 3 and grade 5 math, at 46% and 39%, though both results were below state levels; its Algebra I score was a striking 93%, 54 points above the state’s End-of-Course result. At the lower end, Lindenwold School Five had the lowest grade 5 ELA and math scores, 19% and 11%, while Dr. Albert M. Bean School had the lowest grade 4 ELA and grade 3 math results, 17% and 14%. In grade 3 ELA, John H. Glenn School scored 57%, close behind Laurel Springs’ 59%.
Recent results are mixed: John H. Glenn’s grade 3 ELA rose 35 points year over year, and Lindenwold School Four gained 16 points in that grade, while Laurel Springs’ ELA fell in each of its four grades with comparable results, including 31 points in grade 3. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Laurel Springs also declined from 66 to 40 across the listed years; John H. Glenn rose from 15 to 27, while Clementon stayed near 43. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligibility ranged from 25% at Laurel Springs to 89% at School Four; student–teacher ratios ranged from 9.5 at Clementon to 13.2 at Laurel Springs.
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