Original Research by School Decision on Audubon Park Preschool
Audubon Park Preschool serves only pre-kindergarten, operating as a regular public school within the Audubon Public School District. Its small enrollment is entirely at the PK level, and the student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Hispanic students and students who identify as two or more races, and very small numbers of Asian and Black students. A modest share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. No data on students with disabilities or English learners was available from the school’s civil-rights reporting.
Because the school serves only four-year-olds, there are no state assessment results and no graduation rate to report. That is expected for a pre-K program and does not indicate anything about performance. A parent looking at this school would want to ask the district directly about curriculum, early learning goals, and how the preschool prepares children for kindergarten in the Audubon elementary schools.
The school is housed in the Audubon Park Municipal Complex at 2 Road C, within a borough that is unlike almost any other in Camden County. Audubon Park is an exceptionally small, dense residential enclave where every home is owned and administered by the Audubon Mutual Housing Corporation and rented to residents. There is no commercial district, no retail, and no alcohol sales. The borough was originally built to house shipyard workers, and its population has been declining over several decades. Property taxes are among the highest in the state. The built environment is a compact grid of small streets with wartime-era housing units. NJ Transit bus routes pass through, connecting to Philadelphia and Camden, but there is no downtown or campus feel—civic life centers entirely on the small municipal complex where the preschool sits.
The district that runs this preschool—Audubon Public School District—recently completed a bond project that added four new science labs, a band practice facility, a refurbished auditorium, and a second gymnasium at Audubon Junior-Senior High School in neighboring Audubon Borough. Those upgrades expand science instruction, arts, and athletics for students in grades seven through twelve. For a family starting with this preschool, the path would continue through the Audubon district’s elementary schools—Haviland Avenue School (pre-K through second grade) and Mansion Avenue School (third through sixth grade)—before moving to the junior-senior high school.
This school fits a family looking for a small, neighborhood-based pre-K setting within a district that has invested in its upper-grade facilities. The immediate setting is unique: no commercial strip, no downtown, a tight-knit rental community. The preschool itself is straightforward in what it offers—early childhood education for one year—and the surrounding community’s character and housing arrangements are distinct enough that a parent should visit and see whether the environment matches their expectations for daily life. There is no test data or other typical school performance metrics to review because the grade band does not produce them, so conversations with the school and district about curriculum, class size, and kindergarten readiness would be the most useful next steps.
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