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Oak Tree Road Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
About Oak Tree Road Elementary School
Oak Tree Road Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary campus in ISELIN, New Jersey, overseen by Woodbridge Township School District. The school educates 425 students in grades K through 5.
Across the 24 schools in Woodbridge Township School District (13,869 students total), Oak Tree Road Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Oak Tree Road Elementary School logs that 79% of the student body identifies as Asian. The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Oak Tree Road Elementary School shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Oak Tree Road Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oak Tree Road Elementary School sits in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.2%; actual is 67.0%, +16.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, Middlesex County reports that median household earnings sit near $111,549, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Oak Tree Road Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).
The closest other public school is Kennedy Park Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oak Tree Road Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.6%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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