Port Reading Avenue Elementary School

As a mid-tier K-5 school in PORT READING, New Jersey, Port Reading Avenue Elementary School enrolls 385 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Woodbridge Township School District.

Woodbridge Township School District runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 13,869 students. Port Reading Avenue Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Port Reading Avenue Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 24% White, 17% Asian, 8% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Port Reading Avenue Elementary School logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Middlesex County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Port Reading Avenue Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.7%.

Around the school, Middlesex County reports that median household income runs about $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Middlesex County's 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), Port Reading Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Carteret Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Port Reading Avenue Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 430 students in 2018 compared to 385 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 46% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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