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Alumni: what's one memory from Avenel Street Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
403
Elementary
DISTRICT 389 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341812003686
Avenel Street Elementary School
AVENEL STREET, AVENEL, NJ 07001 · (732) 602-8504 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL403 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
222 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 42 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 52% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
40.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
42.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.6% | 42.9% |
| 2023-24 | 39.6% | 38.9% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Avenel Street Elementary School
Avenel Street Elementary School's state test result (35.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avenel Street Elementary School this school | 403 | 55.1% | 35.3% |
| Elizabeth Avenue School Somerset | 541 | 52.7% | 38.3% |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary School TEANECK | 334 | 53.6% | 52.5% |
| Nicholas Oresko Community School BAYONNE | 388 | 62.9% | 44.5% |
| John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary School TEANECK | 361 | 49.9% | 43.4% |
| Arthur M. Judd NORTH BRUNSWICK | 587 | 50.6% | 43.4% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Avenel Street Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.3% | #852 of 1,290 | #84 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #721 of 1,319 ▲ 44 | #74 of 111 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.6% | #922 of 1,319 ▼ 30 | #78 of 111 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 403 | #693 of 1,562 | #72 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,224 of 1,390 | #105 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.1% | #34 of 1,392 | #9 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.1% | #520 of 1,481 | #34 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.8% | #474 of 798 | #62 of 84 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
403
+6 (+2%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 434
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 403 | 29 | 13.9:1 | 55% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 417 | 28 | 14.9:1 | 45% (189) |
| 2022-23 | 427 | 28 | 15.3:1 | 45% (192) |
| 2020-21 | 397 | 27 | 14.7:1 | 47% (188) |
| 2017-18 | 442 | 28.5 | 15.5:1 | 42% (185) |
| 2015-16 | 472 | 29 | 16.3:1 | 40% (187) |
| 2010-11 | 471 | 21 | 22.4:1 | 38% (177) |
| 2000-01 | 510 | 28 | 18.2:1 | 15% (74) |
| 1990-91 | 434 | 25 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Avenel Street Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (442 to 403); teachers up 2% (28.5 to 29).
About Avenel Street Elementary School
Avenel Street Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in AVENEL, New Jersey. The school's enrollment of 403 students covers kindergarten through 5.
Woodbridge Township School District (24 schools, 13,869 students) runs Avenel Street Elementary School.
Hispanic students are the largest group at Avenel Street Elementary School, with 31% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 29% Black, 22% White, and 18% Asian. Avenel Street Elementary School has a diversity index of 74%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Avenel Street Elementary School employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.9:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, lower than at this school. Avenel Street Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 55%. The gap from the 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County is 13 points.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Avenel Street Elementary School receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 35.3%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 36.0%.
In Middlesex County (population about 871,290), median household income is about $111,549, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. A total of 214 public schools operate in Middlesex County, serving about 129,255 students.
The shortest distance from Avenel Street Elementary School to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to Woodbine Avenue Elementary School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Avenel Street Elementary School places 5th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for Avenel Street Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 403, close to the 397 recorded in 2020-21.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Avenel Street Elementary School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Woodbridge Township School District
- Woodbridge High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
- John F. Kennedy Memorial High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Colonia High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Iselin Middle SchoolMiddle · 794 students
- Lafayette Estates Elementary SchoolElementary · 705 students
- Fords Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
Other schools in AVENEL
- Avenel Middle SchoolMiddle · 629 students
- Woodbine Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 401 students
- ADULT DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT CENTERElementary
Nearby schools
- Woodbine Avenue Elementary School0.7 mi · 401
- Avenel Middle School0.8 mi · 629
- Woodbridge High School0.8 mi · 1,681
- Mawbey Street Elementary School1.3 mi · 304
- Woodbridge Middle School1.3 mi · 513
- John F. Kennedy Memorial High School1.4 mi · 1,405
Frequently asked questions
About Avenel Street Elementary SchoolHow large is Avenel Street Elementary School?
Avenel Street Elementary School enrolls approximately 403 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Avenel Street Elementary School serve?
Avenel Street Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Avenel Street Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Avenel Street Elementary School is approximately 13.9:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Avenel Street Elementary School?
Student demographics at Avenel Street Elementary School are roughly 22% White, 31% Hispanic, 29% Black, 18% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Avenel Street Elementary School public or private?
Avenel Street Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Woodbridge Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.