The top reported proficiency rate is 41% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Holly Hills Elementary School
Holly Hills Elementary School serves students from pre-kindergarten through third grade in Westampton, a primarily residential suburban township in Burlington County. The school is part of the Westampton Township Public School District, which also operates a single intermediate and middle school for grades four through eight. For high school, Westampton families participate in a longstanding regional arrangement that sends students to Rancocas Valley Regional High School, located in neighboring Mount Holly and shared with several other towns. This structure means a child starting at Holly Hills moves through three distinct school settings before graduation, and the regional high school is a fixed part of the picture for any family considering this community.
Holly Hills is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet. Its enrollment is moderate for an elementary building serving only the earliest grades. The student body is racially and ethnically diverse. White students make up roughly a third of the population, Black students about a quarter, Hispanic students close to a fifth, Asian students roughly an eighth, and students identifying as two or more races account for most of the remainder. About a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that positions the school as serving a mix of income levels rather than skewing heavily either low-income or affluent.
The school is located in a car-dependent suburban setting. Westampton has no traditional downtown; its municipal offices, school campuses, and a park-and-ride lot near the New Jersey Turnpike are dispersed across the township. The historic village of Rancocas provides a walkable pocket along Rancocas Creek, but day-to-day life for families relies on driving. Commuting times to Philadelphia, Trenton, and other employment centers are long. Housing values in the area are above national averages, and the local real estate market has been active.
State testing data from the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment for the most recent year shows that Holly Hills third graders scored near the overall midpoint among elementary schools within Burlington County’s districts, though slightly above that middle mark when combining results across subjects. In math, a little over two-fifths of third graders met the state’s proficiency standard, and a similar share did so in English language arts. These are mid-range results, not at the top of the county but also not at the bottom. A parent looking at the numbers will see a school that is performing around the typical level for third graders in the area as a whole.
Because Holly Hills only serves children through third grade, there is no graduation rate to report. The school does not yet serve grades that would produce a chronic absenteeism rate in the data available. A family choosing this school should plan to follow their child to the district’s upper elementary and middle school campus for grades four through eight, and then to the regional high school in Mount Holly.
The district brief did not surface any recent substantive changes to school operations, programming, or facilities. The most concrete pieces of information for a parent are the grade configuration, the regional high school arrangement, and the school’s mid-range state test outcomes. Beyond that, the public record is thin on details about class sizes, special education support, English learner services, or extracurricular offerings for the early grades. A parent with particular concerns about those areas should inquire directly with the school or district office.
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