Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK

Geraldyn O Foster Early Childhood Center, Bridgeton, NJ

CEP schoolGeraldyn O Foster Early Childhood Center is a public prekindergarten school in Bridgeton, part of Bridgeton City School District. It enrolled 316 students in 2024-25, with 11.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 316
Teachers (FTE): 27.0
Students per teacher: 11.7
Grades: PK

This school's ratio is 1.6 lower than the district figure of 13.3. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.7

District13.3

New Jersey11.7

United States15.3

School details

Address: 550 Buckshutem Road, Bridgeton, NJ 08302
Phone: (856)455-8030
District: Bridgeton City School District
County: Cumberland County
Level: Prekindergarten
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Town: Fringe
NCES school ID: 340225000581

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 221
Reduced-price lunch: 11
Free or reduced-price lunch: 23273.4% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.