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Indiana Avenue Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Indiana Avenue Elementary School
Set in ISELIN, New Jersey, Indiana Avenue Elementary School is an average-sized primary school, one of the schools within Woodbridge Township School District. It educates 485 students across grades K through 5.
Across the 24 schools in Woodbridge Township School District (13,869 students total), Indiana Avenue Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Indiana Avenue Elementary School reports that 58% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest is composed of 24% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 26% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Indiana Avenue Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.6%; this one delivers 44.1%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Indiana Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Robert Mascenik Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Indiana Avenue Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 607 students in 2018 compared to 485 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 76% to 58% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.
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