Schools in Zip Code 08070

Schools in zip code 08070 include five public schools in Pennsville, serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12, with 1,846 students total. The schools span elementary, middle and high school, and their grade ranges overlap: for example, Valley Park Elementary School serves PK–1, while Central Park Elementary School serves K–3 and Penn Beach Elementary serves grades 3–5. The clearest overall finding is that results vary sharply by grade and subject, rather than pointing to one school as best across the board.

Penn Beach stands out in fifth-grade ELA: students scored 64%, compared with 52% statewide, a 13-point lead. Pennsville Middle School led the state in eighth-grade Algebra I, with 83% proficient versus 75% statewide, but its eighth-grade science result was 8% versus 19% statewide. At the other end, Central Park was 20 points below the state in third-grade math (29% versus 49%). Pennsville Memorial High School was 27 points below in Geometry (25% versus 52%) and 15 points below in ninth-grade ELA (36% versus 51%).

Results generally moved closer to state performance: 17 of 23 matched school-grade-subject gaps improved or narrowed from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while six widened; the average change was an improvement of 5 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide rank percentile rose at Pennsville Middle, from 25 to 44, and at Penn Beach, from 43 to 49; Central Park fell from 34 to 23, while Pennsville Memorial High moved from 24 to 25. Across the schools, student-teacher ratios ranged from 10.3 to 12.2, and the average was 11. All five reported the same low-income measure, free/reduced lunch eligible, for 2024–2025; shares ranged from 38% to 50%. These figures offer context, but the results do not form a simple pattern across schools.