Summary:
The 08001 zip code is home to a single elementary school, Alloway Township School, which serves grades PK-8 and has an enrollment of 262 students. The school is part of the Alloway Township School District, which is ranked 418 out of 615 districts in New Jersey and has a 2-star rating.
Alloway Township School has a predominantly white student population, with 85.5% of students identifying as white. The school's academic performance is mixed, with some grade levels and subjects performing better than the state average, while others lag behind. For example, the school's 3rd-grade English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency rate of 27.6% is significantly lower than the state average of 42%, but the 4th-grade ELA proficiency rate of 52.4% is slightly higher than the state average of 51.3%. The school's chronic absenteeism rate of 10.6% in the 2021-2022 school year is also higher than the state average.
Despite these challenges, Alloway Township School has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 9.7, suggesting a potentially favorable learning environment. Additionally, the school has a relatively low percentage of students (11.07%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a relatively low-poverty student population. However, the school has consistently ranked in the lower half of New Jersey elementary schools, ranking 837th out of 1,342 schools in the 2022-2023 school year, and has maintained a 2-star rating out of 5 from SchoolDigger, indicating a need for improvement in academic achievement.
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