The top reported proficiency rate is 72% in Math. The lowest is 45% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Signal Hill School
Signal Hill School is one of four elementary schools in the Voorhees Township School District, serving kindergarten through fifth grade in a car-dependent suburban township. Voorhees is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area and its character is defined by residential subdivisions, the Route 73 commercial corridor, the Virtua Voorhees Hospital complex, and the redeveloped Voorhees Town Center (the former Echelon Mall) that now houses the municipal building. The PATCO Speedline Ashland station provides rail access to Philadelphia. High school students from Voorhees attend Eastern Camden County Regional High School, a separate district shared with Gibbsboro and Berlin Borough.
Students come from the Signal Hill neighborhood and surrounding residential areas. The school’s enrollment is predominantly white, with a sizeable Asian population and smaller shares of students identifying as two or more races, Black, and Hispanic; there is a notably small share of students who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native. A very small fraction of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On state assessments, the school’s proficiency rates across math, English language arts, and science place Signal Hill in the top quartile of elementary schools within its county, a strong result relative to its forty-seven-district comparison set. In math, proficiency was solid across third and fourth grades, and somewhat lower in fifth grade. In English language arts, performance was similarly solid in fourth grade, with third and fifth grades showing a slightly smaller share of students meeting the proficient bar. Science scores for fifth graders, the only grade tested in that subject, were lower than the math and ELA results; a parent may want to look into this further with the school.
The school has the feel of a mid-sized elementary building within a district that spreads its students across four neighborhood elementary schools. Voorhees is a community that grew rapidly from the 1960s through the 1990s as farmland converted to subdivisions, and growth has moderated since. The housing market reflects suburban demand: home values in the area that feeds this school are notably above the national benchmark, and the rental market is also tighter than the national average. A typical monthly mortgage payment would be higher than the typical rent, which is common in high-cost suburban markets.
We looked for discipline data, staffing information, chronic absenteeism rates, and course access details but found none available in the provided data for this school. We also looked for a district brief on recent parent-relevant changes such as curriculum shifts or property-tax developments, and found none reported. Signal Hill, serving only elementary grades, has no graduation rate to report.
Overall, Signal Hill presents as a high-performing suburban elementary school with a comfortable peer environment, set in a community that is well-connected to Philadelphia by rail and highway. The academic results are consistently above the typical level in the county. Parents considering Signal Hill should anticipate that the elementary years feed into Voorhees Middle School and then Eastern Camden County Regional High School, so the elementary school’s performance is only one piece of a longer educational pathway. The missing data on discipline and staffing is a gap a prospective family might want to explore through a school visit or conversation with the principal.
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