Enrollment
300
Elementary
DISTRICT 389 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341812003708
Lynn Crest Elementary School
98 IRA AVENUE, COLONIA, NJ 07067 · (732) 499-6558 · Middlesex County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL300 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
9.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
83 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (36).
Student demographics
69%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
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
58.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.1pp since 2023
Math
61.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . -8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.5% | 61.9% |
| 2023-24 | 59.6% | 70.2% |
% 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
58.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.0%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Lynn Crest Elementary School
Lynn Crest Elementary School's state test result (58.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynn Crest Elementary School this school | 300 | 27.7% | 58.0% |
| Claremont Avenue Elementary School COLONIA | 306 | 24.8% | 62.6% |
| William A. Miller Elementary School OLD BRIDGE | 314 | 28.3% | 51.8% |
| Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School COLONIA | 292 | 20.9% | 55.6% |
| Ben Franklin Elementary LAWRENCEVILLE | 342 | 21.3% | 55.0% |
| Lawrence Brook Elementary School EAST BRUNSWICK | 362 | 25.4% | 66.0% |
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 Lynn Crest Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #370 of 1,290 | #31 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.9% | #376 of 1,319 ▼ 161 | #30 of 111 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #518 of 1,319 ▼ 48 | #40 of 111 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 300 | #1,108 of 1,562 | #103 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #268 of 1,390 | #27 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.7% | #199 of 1,392 | #44 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.7% | #892 of 1,481 | #84 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.2% | #420 of 798 | #59 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
300
-23 (-7%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 290
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 300 | 31 | 9.7:1 | 28% (83) |
| 2023-24 | 289 | 30 | 9.6:1 | 22% (65) |
| 2022-23 | 316 | 31 | 10.2:1 | 22% (68) |
| 2020-21 | 323 | 29 | 11.1:1 | 21% (69) |
| 2017-18 | 334 | 29 | 11.5:1 | 20% (68) |
| 2015-16 | 383 | 31 | 12.3:1 | 27% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 330 | 21 | 15.7:1 | 18% (58) |
| 2000-01 | 479 | 20 | 23.9:1 | 9% (42) |
| 1990-91 | 290 | 19 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lynn Crest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (334 to 300); teachers up 7% (29 to 31).
About Lynn Crest Elementary School
Lynn Crest Elementary School is a small elementary school in New Jersey, located in COLONIA. Total enrollment is 300 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll about 405 students on average.
Lynn Crest Elementary School falls under Woodbridge Township School District, which has 24 schools enrolling 13,869 students.
No group is above 50% at Lynn Crest Elementary School; the largest is White, at 45%. The rest of enrollment is 25% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 2% multiracial. The diversity index for Lynn Crest Elementary School is 69%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 9.7 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Lynn Crest Elementary School, which has 31. The school's 9.7:1 compares with an average of 11.4:1 for elementary schools in New Jersey. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 28%. The rate at public schools in Middlesex County averages 42%, higher than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Lynn Crest Elementary School lands at B+, ahead of 73% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Lynn Crest Elementary School is 7.0 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools.
Middlesex County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $111,549 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Lynn Crest Elementary School shares Middlesex County with 213 other public schools.
Lynn Crest Elementary School's nearest public school is Colonia High School (about 0.6 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lynn Crest Elementary School. Lynn Crest Elementary School places 3rd of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 23 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio was 11.1:1 in 2020-21 and 9.7:1 in 2024-25.
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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 COLONIA
- Colonia High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Colonia Middle SchoolMiddle · 628 students
- Claremont Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 306 students
- Oak Ridge Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 292 students
- Pennsylvania Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 282 students
Nearby schools
- Colonia High School0.6 mi · 1,354
- Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School0.7 mi · 292
- Kennedy Park Elementary School0.8 mi · 256
- Colonia Middle School1.1 mi · 628
- Oak Tree Road Elementary School1.1 mi · 425
- James Madison Intermediate School1.2 mi · 586
Frequently asked questions
About Lynn Crest Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lynn Crest Elementary School?
Lynn Crest Elementary School enrolls approximately 300 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Lynn Crest Elementary School serve?
Lynn Crest Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Lynn Crest Elementary School have?
Lynn Crest Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1.
How diverse is Lynn Crest Elementary School?
Lynn Crest Elementary School reports a student body of 45% White, 21% Hispanic, 7% Black, 25% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Lynn Crest Elementary School in?
Lynn Crest Elementary School is part of Woodbridge Township School District.
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