Enrollment
292
Elementary
DISTRICT 389 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341812003714
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School
720 INMAN AVENUE, COLONIA, NJ 07067 · (732) 499-6553 · Middlesex County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL292 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% 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
11.9:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
61 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 | 37 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (29) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (34).
Student demographics
66%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
59.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
54.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.7pp 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 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.3% | 54.2% |
| 2023-24 | 58.5% | 55.9% |
% 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
55.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School's state test result (55.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School this school | 292 | 20.9% | 55.6% |
| Parkway Elementary School PARAMUS | 297 | 15.8% | 73.5% |
| Claremont Avenue Elementary School COLONIA | 306 | 24.8% | 62.6% |
| Lynn Crest Elementary School COLONIA | 300 | 27.7% | 58.0% |
| Ben Franklin Elementary LAWRENCEVILLE | 342 | 21.3% | 55.0% |
| John A. Forrest Elementary School FAIR LAWN | 258 | 22.1% | 60.4% |
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 Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.6% | #417 of 1,290 | #37 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #511 of 1,319 ▼ 61 | #53 of 111 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.3% | #504 of 1,319 ▼ 13 | #38 of 111 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 292 | #1,140 of 1,562 | #104 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #864 of 1,390 | #76 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.5% | #297 of 1,392 | #60 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.9% | #1,021 of 1,481 | #101 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #538 of 798 | #69 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
292
+59 (+25%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 259
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 292 | 24.5 | 11.9:1 | 21% (61) |
| 2023-24 | 255 | 25.5 | 10.0:1 | 22% (55) |
| 2022-23 | 276 | 21.5 | 12.8:1 | 18% (51) |
| 2020-21 | 233 | 15 | 15.5:1 | 16% (37) |
| 2017-18 | 314 | 17 | 18.5:1 | 11% (34) |
| 2015-16 | 299 | 19 | 15.7:1 | 14% (43) |
| 2010-11 | 279 | 15 | 18.6:1 | 11% (32) |
| 2000-01 | 344 | 15 | 22.9:1 | 8% (26) |
| 1990-91 | 259 | 15 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (314 to 292); teachers up 44% (17 to 24.5).
About Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School is a small elementary school serving families in COLONIA, New Jersey. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 292 students. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average enrollment is about 405.
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School is one of the 24 schools that make up Woodbridge Township School District (13,869 students in total).
The student body at Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School is 50% White. Other reported shares: 24% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 3% multiracial. Middlesex County's residents are about 41% White, 9 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 66, compared with 70 nationally.
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1, with 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 21% at Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School. The average for public schools in Middlesex County is 42%.
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 61% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Test results at Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (55.6% actual, 54.7% predicted).
In the wider Middlesex County area, the median household earns about $111,549 a year, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School shares Middlesex County with 213 other public schools.
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School's nearest public school is Colonia Middle School (about 0.7 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School is 4th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
For locale, NCES codes Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School as Suburb: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 25% rise, from 233 to 292. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.5:1 in 2020-21, and 11.9:1 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
- Lynn Crest Elementary SchoolElementary · 300 students
- Pennsylvania Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 282 students
Nearby schools
- Colonia Middle School0.7 mi · 628
- Lynn Crest Elementary School0.7 mi · 300
- Colonia High School0.8 mi · 1,354
- Pennsylvania Avenue Elementary School1.1 mi · 282
- Frank K. Hehnly1.2 mi · 543
- Franklin D Roosevelt School1.4 mi · 178
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Ridge Heights Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School?
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School enrolls approximately 292 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School serve?
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School have?
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
How diverse is Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School?
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School reports a student body of 50% White, 17% Hispanic, 5% Black, 24% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School?
Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School is overseen by Woodbridge Township School District in Middlesex County.
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