Washington Memorial Elementary School

Located at 300 WEST STEWART STREET, in WASHINGTON, New Jersey, Washington Memorial Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary-level community that instructs 280 students (grades 3 through 6), run under Washington Borough School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Washington Memorial Elementary School sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Washington Borough School District, which oversees 2 schools and 560 students, Washington Memorial Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Washington Memorial Elementary School logs that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 28% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

In terms of school funding signals, Washington Memorial Elementary School reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.0:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at Washington Memorial Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Warren County (around 36%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Washington Memorial Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of -6.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Warren County put the typical household earns roughly $100,869 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Washington Memorial Elementary School is one of 41 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 15,462 students).

Warren Hills Regional Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Washington Memorial Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Washington Memorial Elementary School has contracted 3%, going from 288 students in 2018 to 280 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 60% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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