Claremont Avenue Elementary School

Claremont Avenue Elementary School is a cozy K-5 school in COLONIA, New Jersey, one of the schools within Woodbridge Township School District. The school works with 306 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Claremont Avenue Elementary School sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Claremont Avenue Elementary School is one of 24 schools operated by Woodbridge Township School District, a district that teaches 13,869 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Claremont Avenue Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 26% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Claremont Avenue Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Claremont Avenue Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.6%, the actual is 62.6%, a residual of +10.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household income runs about $111,549, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Claremont Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pennsylvania Avenue Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Claremont Avenue Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Claremont Avenue Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 30.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Claremont Avenue Elementary School's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 289 (now 306). White enrollment moved from 51% to 42% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Claremont Avenue Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.