NCES CCD 2024-25 19 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Cherry Hill, NJ

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19 public K-12 schools in Cherry Hill from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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19
Schools
10,653
Students
55/100
Avg Resource Index
13:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cherry Hill has more public-school enrollment than 82% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cherry Hill lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

12 of Cherry Hill's 19 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 3 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Cherry Hill's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 95th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 29-point gap between Alternative High School and Clara Barton Elementary School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 18%
School count
Top 16%
Resource Index average
95th percentile
Teacher staffing
79th percentile

Cherry Hill High School East accounts for 19.9% of all Cherry Hill public-school enrollment

That concentration means Cherry Hill-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cherry Hill school enrollment varies 66× across entities

Cherry Hill school enrollment ranges from 32 students (lowest) to 2,120 students (highest), a spread of 2,088 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cherry Hill operates one school district — a single-district system

Cherry Hill's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cherry Hill student-teacher ratio is 13.0:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Alternative High School 69
2. Rosa International Middle School 62
3. Horace Mann Elementary School 62
4. Estelle V. Malberg Early Childhood Center 62
5. Cherry Hill High School East 61
6. James F. Cooper Elementary School 61
7. Henry C. Beck Middle School 58
8. John a. Carusi Middle School 55
9. Richard Stockton Elementary School 55
10. Woodcrest Elementary School 55
11. Bret Harte Elementary School 54
12. Cherry Hill High School West 53
13. Kingston Elementary School 52
14. Thomas Paine Elementary School 52
15. A. Russell Knight Elementary School 51
16. Joseph D. Sharp Elementary School 51
17. James Johnson Elementary School 47
18. Joyce Kilmer Elementary School 45
19. Clara Barton Elementary School 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Cherry Hill

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Joyce Kilmer Elementary School 74.3/100
  2. 2 Estelle V. Malberg Early Childhood Center 72.0/100
  3. 3 John a. Carusi Middle School 71.2/100
  4. 4 Clara Barton Elementary School 70.9/100
  5. 5 James Johnson Elementary School 70.6/100

What do families ask about schools in Cherry Hill?

Which Cherry Hill school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Alternative High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cherry Hill schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Cherry Hill, NJ? ▼

Cherry Hill has 19 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,653 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.