Florence Riverfront School, Florence NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Florence Riverfront School

Florence Riverfront School serves students in grades four through eight and is the sole middle-level school in the Florence Township School District. It sits on a separate campus in a township that blends older riverfront villages with newer logistics and warehouse development. The community of Florence, along with the unincorporated area of Roebling, has seen steady growth, driven in part by the expansion of distribution centers along highway and rail corridors, and the school draws from both parts of the township.

Home values in the area fall around the national median, and rents are moderate relative to incomes. The housing market has been active, though the school sits in a county where demand has softened slightly. The township itself is suburban in character, with two NJ Transit River Line stations providing light rail access to Trenton and Camden, and a municipal center on Broad Street in the older Florence village. The district’s three schools are spread across the township, so elementary students in Roebling feed into Riverfront, and Riverfront graduates move on to the high school.

The student body at Riverfront is diverse. The largest group of students is white, followed by Black, Hispanic, and Asian students, with small numbers of students who identify as two or more races or American Indian. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available in the source materials, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those populations and the supports offered.

Academically, the school’s state test results show a pattern that warrants attention. Proficiency rates vary by grade and subject, but overall performance, averaged across all tested grades and subjects in the most recent year, places the school in the bottom quarter when compared to other school districts in Burlington County. In English language arts, proficiency was higher in grade six than in grades four, five, seven, and eight. In math, proficiency was highest in grade four and declined in each subsequent grade, reaching a noticeably low level in grade eight. Science proficiency in grades five and eight was also low. These are the school’s own results from the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments. The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate or college readiness data to consider.

No information was available on course offerings, staffing ratios, disciplinary incidents, or chronic absenteeism. The district brief turned up no recent major changes such as budget votes or curriculum overhauls that would alter a parent’s picture of the school.

Florence Riverfront School is a regular public middle school in a growing, logistics-oriented suburban township. It serves a demographically mixed student body, and its test results are below the midpoint of districts in the county. For a family considering this school, the immediate next step would be to visit, talk to teachers and administrators about academic support and enrichment programs, and ask about student populations for which data was missing here.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 441%

School 41% · District 41%

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 620%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 716%

School 16% · District 16%

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 88%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 38%

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 18%

▼ 36 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 646%

School 46% · District 46%

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 717%

School 17% · District 17%

▼ 41 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 827%

School 27% · District 27%

▼ 31 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Science

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 15%

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 17%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

This schoolFlorence Township School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 4Lower-income24%Higher-income47%23 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income12%Higher-income23%11 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income31%Higher-income57%26 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income9%Higher-income23%14 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income4%Higher-income39%35 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income29%Higher-income49%19 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income8%Higher-income32%24 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income12%Higher-income26%14 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income7%Higher-income23%16 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income9%Higher-income7%1 pp gap