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Alumni: what's one memory from Redwood Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
446
Elementary
DISTRICT 335 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST ORANGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 341761002490
Redwood Elementary School
75 REDWOOD AVE, W ORANGE, NJ 07052 · (973) 669-5457 · Essex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL446 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 85% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
10.4:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
137 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 20% larger than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Redwood Elementary School→Edison Middle School
Based on grade levels within West Orange Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
69.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.7pp since 2023
Math
65.6%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.1% | 65.6% |
| 2023-24 | 68.4% | 61.2% |
% 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
62.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Redwood Elementary School
Redwood Elementary School's state test result (62.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redwood Elementary School this school | 446 | 30.7% | 62.9% |
| MacAfee Road School Somerset | 405 | 33.1% | 47.3% |
| Livingston Elementary UNION | 485 | 37.5% | 48.5% |
| Mount Pleasant Elementary School WEST ORANGE | 349 | 32.7% | 65.9% |
| Conerly Road School Somerset | 350 | 31.1% | 47.0% |
| Holly Hills Elementary School WESTAMPTON | 460 | 37.2% | 38.8% |
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 Redwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #283 of 1,290 | #33 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #321 of 1,319 ▲ 40 | #36 of 141 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #287 of 1,319 ▼ 4 | #39 of 141 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 446 | #553 of 1,562 | #68 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #465 of 1,390 | #19 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.0% | #36 of 1,392 | #3 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.7% | #846 of 1,481 | #91 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.3% | #245 of 798 | #15 of 73 |
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
446
-23 (-5%) vs 2020
+49% since 1990-91, when it was 300
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 10.2:1
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 | 446 | 42.8 | 10.4:1 | 31% (137) |
| 2023-24 | 427 | 44.2 | 9.7:1 | 30% (126) |
| 2022-23 | 426 | 47.9 | 8.9:1 | 30% (127) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | 46 | 10.2:1 | 26% (124) |
| 2017-18 | 533 | 46.9 | 11.4:1 | 29% (154) |
| 2015-16 | 546 | 50 | 10.9:1 | 29% (159) |
| 2010-11 | 548 | 39 | 14.1:1 | 22% (121) |
| 2000-01 | 457 | 25 | 18.3:1 | 13% (61) |
| 1990-91 | 300 | 21 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Redwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (533 to 446); teachers down 9% (46.9 to 42.8).
About Redwood Elementary School
Redwood Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in New Jersey, located in W ORANGE. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 446 students.
West Orange Public Schools is the local district for Redwood Elementary School. It runs 13 schools with 6,616 students.
At Redwood Elementary School, Black students make up the biggest share, 33%. Other groups make up 30% Hispanic, 22% White, 9% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Essex County residents are about 36% Black, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 74%.
Its ratio of 10.4:1 is based on 42.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in New Jersey have an average ratio of 11.4:1. In all, 31% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 54% average for public schools in Essex County.
Redwood Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 85% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 62.9%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 49.4%.
For Essex County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $80,789 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Essex County number 249, with about 145,473 students.
West Orange High School sits about 0.6 miles from Redwood Elementary School. Redwood Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Redwood Elementary School comes in 2nd of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 5%.
The Redwood Elementary School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Orange Public Schools
- West Orange High SchoolHigh · 2,106 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 559 students
- Gregory Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 477 students
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 457 students
- Kelly Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
Other schools in W ORANGE
- Gregory Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 477 students
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 457 students
- Kelly Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
- St. Cloud Elementary SchoolElementary · 436 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 414 students
Other Redwood Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 6 states are named Redwood Elementary. Redwood Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 9.
- Redwood ElementaryFontana, CA · 654 students
- Redwood ElementaryShafter, CA · 601 students
- Redwood ElementaryHARTFORD, MI · 516 students
- Redwood ElementaryCrescent City, CA · 452 students
- Redwood Elementary SchoolGrants Pass, OR · 443 students
Nearby schools
- West Orange High School0.6 mi · 2,106
- Kelly Elementary School0.7 mi · 451
- Forest Avenue School1.1 mi · 230
- Brookdale Avenue School1.2 mi · 134
- Henry B. Whitehorne Middle School1.4 mi · 702
- Hillside Elementary School1.5 mi · 684
Frequently asked questions
About Redwood Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Redwood Elementary School?
Redwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 446 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Redwood Elementary School serve?
Redwood Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Redwood Elementary School have?
Redwood Elementary School employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.4:1.
How diverse is Redwood Elementary School?
Redwood Elementary School reports a student body of 22% White, 30% Hispanic, 33% Black, 6% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Redwood Elementary School public or private?
Redwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Orange Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.