Enrollment
385
Elementary
DISTRICT 389 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341812003720
Port Reading Avenue Elementary School
TURNER STREET, PORT READING, NJ 07064 · (732) 602-8409 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL385 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- CTest 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
10.8:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
218 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (54).
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
43.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
37.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.2% | 37.8% |
| 2023-24 | 42.8% | 32.6% |
% 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
35.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Port Reading Avenue Elementary School
Port Reading Avenue Elementary School's state test result (35.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Reading Avenue Elementary School this school | 385 | 56.6% | 35.7% |
| Menlo Park Terrace Elementary School METUCHEN | 330 | 53.3% | 43.1% |
| Gantner Avenue School ELMWOOD PARK | 339 | 56.9% | 42.5% |
| Sixteenth Avenue School ELMWOOD PARK | 410 | 53.2% | 32.8% |
| School #5 CLIFTON | 398 | 53.5% | 32.9% |
| Robert L. Craig School MOONACHIE | 356 | 60.7% | 56.9% |
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 Port Reading Avenue Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.7% | #841 of 1,290 | #83 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #843 of 1,319 ▲ 35 | #83 of 111 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #868 of 1,319 ▼ 35 | #71 of 111 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 385 | #756 of 1,562 | #78 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #578 of 1,390 | #48 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.9% | #284 of 1,392 | #59 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.6% | #501 of 1,481 | #31 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #407 of 798 | #56 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
385
+14 (+4%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 360
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 385 | 35.5 | 10.8:1 | 57% (218) |
| 2023-24 | 390 | 36.5 | 10.7:1 | 55% (216) |
| 2022-23 | 361 | 30.5 | 11.8:1 | 47% (169) |
| 2020-21 | 371 | 30 | 12.4:1 | 41% (153) |
| 2017-18 | 430 | 33.5 | 12.8:1 | 39% (166) |
| 2015-16 | 408 | 33 | 12.4:1 | 38% (155) |
| 2010-11 | 404 | 23 | 17.6:1 | 30% (121) |
| 2000-01 | 392 | 22 | 17.8:1 | 28% (109) |
| 1990-91 | 360 | 19 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Port Reading Avenue Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (430 to 385); teachers up 6% (33.5 to 35.5).
About Port Reading Avenue Elementary School
Port Reading Avenue Elementary School is one of the public schools in PORT READING, New Jersey. It is a mid-sized elementary school. Federal data show 385 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Besides Port Reading Avenue Elementary School, Woodbridge Township School District runs 23 other schools. The district enrolls 13,869 students.
More than half of enrollment at Port Reading Avenue Elementary School is Hispanic: 50%. Enrollment also includes 24% White, 17% Asian, 8% Black, and 2% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 27 points above the 24% share among Middlesex County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 66%.
There are 35.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Port Reading Avenue Elementary School, giving a ratio of 10.8:1. That is in line with the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. A total of 218 students, or 57%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Middlesex County report 42%.
Port Reading Avenue Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 37% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Port Reading Avenue Elementary School, the prediction is 35.2% and the result is 35.7%.
In the surrounding county, Middlesex County, median household income comes to about $111,549, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county's public schools total 214, with about 129,255 students.
Carteret Middle School is the nearest public school to Port Reading Avenue Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. Within five miles of Port Reading Avenue Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Port Reading Avenue Elementary School is 3rd of 9 on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts rose from 371 (2020-21) to 385 (2024-25). In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.8:1.
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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
Nearby schools
- Carteret Middle School0.8 mi · 540
- Carteret Junior High School1.0 mi · 568
- Carteret High School1.0 mi · 1,188
- Columbus Elementary School1.0 mi · 642
- Matthew Jago Elementary School1.3 mi · 425
- Nathan Hale Elementary School1.4 mi · 436
Frequently asked questions
About Port Reading Avenue Elementary SchoolHow large is Port Reading Avenue Elementary School?
Port Reading Avenue Elementary School enrolls approximately 385 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Port Reading Avenue Elementary School serve?
Port Reading Avenue Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Port Reading Avenue Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Port Reading Avenue Elementary School is approximately 10.8:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Port Reading Avenue Elementary School?
At Port Reading Avenue Elementary School, the student body is approximately 24% White, 50% Hispanic, 8% Black, 17% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Port Reading Avenue Elementary School?
Port Reading Avenue Elementary School is overseen by Woodbridge Township School District in Middlesex County.
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