Camden
Four Camden Operators Now Enroll 2,503 More Students Than the City District
In 2010, Camden City School District enrolled 12,923 students. In 2026, it enrolled 6,596. The decline was 6,327 students, or 49.0%. Among New Jersey traditional districts that enrolled at least 1,000...
South Jersey's Attendance Gap With the North Has Nearly Doubled Since the Pandemic
Cumberland County sits at the bottom of New Jersey's attendance rankings. Its school districts average 18.8% chronic absenteeism in 2023-24, meaning roughly one in five students misses 18 or more scho...
Newark Cut Chronic Absenteeism by More Than Half
In 2018-19, more than one in four Newark students was chronically absent. The district's rate, 26.8%, was 16.2 percentage points above the state average, worse than all but a handful of New Jersey's u...