2025 Data

2025 Data

New Data Shows that Citywide, Camden Students are Coming Back from the Pandemic Faster than Their Statewide Peers

After Our 2024 Report Asked the Question “Can Camden Students Continue the Comeback,” Updated Data Shows That They Are Doing So

In Spring of 2024, the Camden Education Fund issued a report compiling recent student learning data to provide an overview of trends both leading up to and coming out of the pandemic. One of the key insights in that data, was that when looking at citywide trends (combining results from all Camden schools, inclusive of traditional district, renaissance, and public charter schools), we saw that students were starting to come back from their pandemic learning loss lows.

With the release of another year of NJSLA data this winter, we are sharing updated analysis that shows increased learning gains and momentum for Camden students. While Camden students still have a long way to go to reach their potential, a second year of data shows even clearer progress being made from the pandemic for a second year, with gains now outpacing statewide peers in both ELA and math.

A few key takeaways from this year’s data include:

Camden students improved from 17% proficient in reading in 2022 to 23.2% proficient in 2024, outpacing the pace of improvement statewide by nearly double.

Similarly in math, Camden students improved from 8% proficient citywide in 2022, and improved to 13.3% in 2024.

Over the past 10 years, Camden students are starting to narrow learning gaps

And when looking over a longer time horizon (nearly 10 years) we see that in ELA in particular, Camden students not only outperform 2015 scores by nearly 10 percentage points, but have closed the gap with their statewide peers by seven percentage points over that time.

Of course, as this data also shows, there is still significant work to be done to close learning gaps. At Camden Education Fund we are committed to doing everything we can to support students to do so, and to prepare them for success in life.

Let’s work together to build on this momentum, and help Camden students continue the comeback.

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We are deeply saddened and disturbed by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis. George’s story is the story of too many Black Americans – Ahmaud Arbery, Breona Taylor, Trayvon Martin, and so many more, named and unnamed by the media— brutally and senselessly killed.

This loss of Black life and our persistent failure to bring those responsible to account expose the most grotesque, painful truth about our nation: the enduring legacy of white supremacy.

We will not heal until things change.

Camden Education Fund stands in solidarity with the Black community.

We remain deeply committed to bringing resources to support our public schools and the extraordinary youth-serving organizations in Camden, as we believe these are the institutions with the greatest potential to show our children, daily, that their lives and dreams matter.

The reality is that all organizations – ours included – have so much more work to do. We will hold ourselves accountable to building an organization that advances equity, promotes understanding, and dismantles racist structures.