Evergreen Avenue Elementary School

Located at 160 North Evergreen Avenue, in Woodbury, New Jersey, Evergreen Avenue Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary school that serves 310 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Woodbury City Public School District. Enrollment runs roughly 23% smaller than the state mean of about 405.

Within Woodbury City Public School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,709 students, Evergreen Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Evergreen Avenue Elementary School logs that 35% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 35% Black, 19% White, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Gloucester County (around 32%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Evergreen Avenue Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.2%; this one delivers 23.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Gloucester County shows median household income runs about $105,115, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Gloucester County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students), of which Evergreen Avenue Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Woodbury Jr-Sr High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Evergreen Avenue Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 310 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 29% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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