Schools in Zip Code 08069

Schools in ZIP code 08069 include five schools serving 2,182 students from pre-K through grade 12, from Lafayette - Pershing through Penns Grove High School. In 2024–25, chronic absenteeism averaged 24% across the schools, compared with 14% statewide. The most important finding is that every reported 2025–26 grade-level ELA, math and science result was below its matching state rate, by an average of 32, 25 and 16 percentage points, respectively.

Field Street School is the closest to state rates in the reported grade 3 results: its ELA and math results were each about 20 points below state rates, the smallest gaps among the reported elementary and secondary grade-level ELA and math results. Penns Grove High School stands out for a contrast in outcomes: its 2024–25 graduation rate was 95%, 6 points above the state, but grade 9 ELA proficiency was 12%, 39 points below the state; grade 11 NJGPA math was 39%, 22 points below. The sharpest setback was at Penns Grove Middle School, where Algebra I proficiency fell from 67% to 26% between 2024–25 and 2025–26. Because schools serve different grades, these results are not a like-for-like school ranking.

Average gaps to the state narrowed between the two years for ELA, math and science—by 4, 3 and 2 points, respectively—but the middle-school algebra decline is a major exception. SchoolDigger’s school ranking percentile rose for Field Street School from 7 to 17, while Penns Grove High School moved from 16 to 14, after dipping to 5, and Penns Grove Middle School rose from 5 to 7. SchoolDigger ranks the Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District 582nd of 607 districts, in the 4th percentile, with zero stars. The schools’ free/reduced lunch eligible rates in 2024–25 ranged from about 70% to 77%, averaging 74%; chronic absenteeism ranged from 19% at Field Street to 28% at Lafayette - Pershing. Student–teacher ratios ranged from 10.0 at Lafayette - Pershing to 13.4 at Penns Grove High School.