Public school / Primary
Thomas Paine Elementary School
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 340300001458
- District
- Cherry Hill School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Thomas Paine Elementary School is a public primary school in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, run by Cherry Hill School District. It enrols 344 students — the 59307th largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
344
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
13.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
27.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Cherry Hill School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Cherry Hill High School East2,087 students
- 2Cherry Hill High School West1,355 students
- 3Henry C. Beck Middle School845 students
- 4John A. Carusi Middle School841 students
- 5Rosa International Middle School754 students
- 6Clara Barton Elementary School473 students
- 7James Johnson Elementary School462 students
- 8A. Russell Knight Elementary School452 students
- Enrollment−26.1%
- Teachers−31.6%
- Students per teacher+16.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+1.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory