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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 08102


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381
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Top rankedCooper's Poynt Family School1269th of 1,331 New Jersey elementary schools
Summary:

ZIP code 08102 has one listed elementary school, Cooper’s Poynt Family School, a PK–8 school in Camden with 381 students. In 2025–2026, its average proficiency across grades 3–8 was 16% in ELA and 11% in math, compared with 51% and 40% statewide. Its results were below the state in every reported grade: the gaps ranged from 22 to 47 percentage points in ELA and 23 to 38 points in math. The most important finding is that the school’s proficiency rates remain substantially below state rates across both subjects and all reported grades.

There is no group of schools in the ZIP code to rank against one another, so the notable differences are among grades at Cooper’s Poynt. ELA proficiency was highest in grade 7 at 27% and lowest in grade 8 at 7%; math was highest in grade 4 at 18% and lowest in grade 8 at 0%. The school exceeded the Camden City School District in three of six grades in each subject, including by 10 points in grade 7 ELA and 6 points in grade 6 math. Its equal-weighted average was 1 point below the district in ELA and 1 point above in math, though substantial state gaps remained.

Recent trends differ by subject: the equal-weighted ELA average rose 4 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and its average gap to the state narrowed from 42 to 35 points. On the matched grade 3–7 comparison, math fell 2 points while the state average was essentially unchanged, widening the school’s average state gap from 29 to 31 points. SchoolDigger lists the school at the 5th percentile in 2025–2026, after the 3rd percentile in 2023–2024 and 9th in 2024–2025. Other context includes 45% chronic absenteeism in 2024–2025, compared with 44% in the district and 14% statewide; an 8.4 student–teacher ratio; and 63% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025.

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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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