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How has Washington Township High School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
2,105
High
DISTRICT 694 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341707002640
Washington Township High School
519 HURFFVILLE CROSSKEYS RD, SEWELL, NJ 08080 · (856) 589-8500 · Gloucester County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL2,105 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 27% of New Jersey public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
159 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
593 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 519 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 522 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 534 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 530 | 25% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Washington Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
51.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -6.6pp since 2023
Math
26.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.4% | 26.3% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 22.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
32.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Washington Township High School
Washington Township High School's state test result (32.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Township High School this school | 2,105 | 28.2% | 32.0% |
| Kingsway Regional High School WOOLWICH TWP | 1,822 | 21.8% | 41.5% |
| Freehold Township High School FREEHOLD TWP. | 1,813 | 19.5% | 39.9% |
| Toms River High School East TOMS RIVER | 1,377 | 32.3% | 42.9% |
| Hunterdon Central Regional High School District Flemington | 2,238 | 19.2% | 51.1% |
| Jackson Memorial High School Jackson | 1,577 | 33.2% | 30.0% |
Matched among New Jersey high 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 Washington Township High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Gloucester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #238 of 397 | #6 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #215 of 400 ▲ 28 | #5 of 14 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #197 of 395 ▲ 18 | #4 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,105 | #26 of 442 | #1 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #268 of 388 | #9 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.6% | #228 of 389 | #9 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.2% | #239 of 405 | #9 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.9% | #128 of 200 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high 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
2,105
-99 (-4%) vs 2020
+147% since 1990-91, when it was 852
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 2,105 | 158.5 | 13.3:1 | 28% (593) |
| 2023-24 | 2,108 | 167.2 | 12.6:1 | 20% (414) |
| 2022-23 | 2,075 | 173.2 | 12.0:1 | 18% (380) |
| 2020-21 | 2,204 | 180 | 12.2:1 | 21% (453) |
| 2017-18 | 2,237 | 178.4 | 12.5:1 | 20% (449) |
| 2015-16 | 2,326 | 189 | 12.3:1 | 21% (492) |
| 2010-11 | 2,688 | 188 | 14.3:1 | 7% (177) |
| 2000-01 | 2,796 | 197 | 14.2:1 | 5% (145) |
| 1990-91 | 852 | 59 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Washington Township High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (2,237 to 2,105); teachers down 11% (178.4 to 158.5).
About Washington Township High School
Washington Township High School is a high school in SEWELL, New Jersey, and it is part of Washington Township School District. It reports enrollment of 2,105 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 127% larger than the 929-student average for high schools in New Jersey.
The district for Washington Township High School is Washington Township School District, with 10 schools and 6,938 students.
The share of White students at Washington Township High School is 67%, a majority. After that, the student body is 15% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 5% Asian. Census figures show Gloucester County is about 76% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 51, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 158.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1. The average for high schools in New Jersey is about 12.7:1. A total of 593 students, or 28%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Washington Township High School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 27% of New Jersey public high schools.
In New Jersey, Washington Township High School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 32.0% compared with a predicted 50.7%.
Gloucester County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $105,115 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Gloucester County number 86, with about 46,080 students.
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School sits about 0.9 miles from Washington Township High School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 48.3%, higher than Washington Township High School's 32.0%.
Locale data from NCES put Washington Township High School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment figures show a decline of 99 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 13.3 students per teacher, compared with 12.2 in 2020-21.
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Gloucester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
306,954
Census ACS
Median income
$105,115
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
46,080 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Washington Township School District
- Chestnut Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 613 students
- Bells Elementary SchoolElementary · 571 students
- Whitman Elementary SchoolElementary · 566 students
- Bunker Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 562 students
- Hurffville Elementary SchoolElementary · 544 students
- Orchard Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 529 students
Other schools in SEWELL
- Gloucester County Institute of TechnologyHigh · 1,657 students
- Deptford Township Middle SchoolMiddle · 895 students
- Chestnut Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 613 students
- Bunker Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 562 students
- Hurffville Elementary SchoolElementary · 544 students
- Orchard Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 529 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School0.9 mi · 511
- Bells Elementary School1.1 mi · 571
- Chestnut Ridge Middle School1.3 mi · 613
- Birches Elementary School1.3 mi · 472
- Wedgwood Elementary School1.4 mi · 465
- Orchard Valley Middle School1.4 mi · 529
Frequently asked questions
About Washington Township High SchoolHow many students attend Washington Township High School?
Washington Township High School enrolls approximately 2,105 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Washington Township High School serve?
Washington Township High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Washington Township High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Washington Township High School is approximately 13.3:1 (159 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Washington Township High School?
At Washington Township High School, the student body is approximately 67% White, 15% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Washington Township High School in?
Washington Township High School is part of Washington Township School District.
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