Enrollment
158
Elementary
STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WENONAH BORO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341734002658
Wenonah Elementary School
200 N CLINTON AVE, WENONAH, NJ 08090 · (856) 468-6000 · Gloucester County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL158 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
8.1:1
20 FTE teachers
STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
5 students
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 11 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 20 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 13 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 24 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 29 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 18 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 24 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 19 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (20) is 5% larger than its 6th grade class (19).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
59.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.3pp since 2023
Math
68.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.6% | 68.2% |
| 2023-24 | 60.9% | 68.9% |
% 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
60.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Wenonah Elementary School
Wenonah Elementary School's state test result (60.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wenonah Elementary School this school | 158 | 3.2% | 60.4% |
| Thomas A. Edison Elementary School WESTMONT | 159 | 3.1% | 64.5% |
| Island Heights Elementary School ISLAND HEIGHTS | 142 | 2.1% | 65.3% |
| Stoy Elementary School HADDONFIELD | 174 | 6.9% | 58.5% |
| William H. Ross III School MARGATE | 186 | 7.0% | 65.3% |
| H W Mountz Elementary School Spring Lake | 130 | 3.8% | 86.1% |
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 Wenonah Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Gloucester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #327 of 1,290 | #3 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #272 of 1,319 ▼ 41 | #2 of 35 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.6% | #495 of 1,319 ▼ 60 | #8 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 158 | #1,451 of 1,562 | #47 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 3.2% | #1,388 of 1,481 | #48 of 48 |
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
158
-7 (-4%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 200
Student : Teacher
8.1:1
was 9.7:1
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 | 158 | 19.5 | 8.1:1 | 3% (5) |
| 2023-24 | 162 | 19.5 | 8.3:1 | 4% (7) |
| 2022-23 | 166 | 19.9 | 8.3:1 | 3% (5) |
| 2020-21 | 165 | 17 | 9.7:1 | 2% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 181 | 19.5 | 9.3:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2015-16 | 192 | 22 | 8.7:1 | 2% (3) |
| 2010-11 | 251 | 18 | 13.9:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2000-01 | 196 | 20 | 9.8:1 | 3% (6) |
| 1990-91 | 200 | 13 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wenonah Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (181 to 158); teachers unchanged (19.5 to 19.5).
About Wenonah Elementary School
Wenonah Elementary School is a very small elementary school in WENONAH, New Jersey. It is open to students in pre-K through 6 and enrolls 158 students. By comparison, elementary schools in New Jersey enroll about 405 students on average.
Wenonah Elementary School is a school in Wenonah Boro School District.
White students account for 87% of the school's enrollment. The school is also 6% multiracial and 5% Hispanic. The White share of the county population is lower, at 76%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 23, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 19.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.1:1. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 5 students, or 3%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Gloucester County average 32%.
Wenonah Elementary School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 57% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Wenonah Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 60.4% and a predicted 64.4%.
Looking at the county, Gloucester County, the median household earns about $105,115 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Wenonah Elementary School, Gloucester County has 86 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Pine Acres Early Childhood Center, is about 0.7 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Wenonah Elementary School is 1st of 7 nearby schools with test data.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 158, from 165 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 9.7:1 to 8.1:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 WENONAH
- Oak Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 337 students
- Pine Acres Early Childhood CenterElementary · 298 students
Other Wenonah Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Wenonah Elementary. Wenonah Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Wenonah ElementaryWaynesboro, VA · 246 students
Nearby schools
- Pine Acres Early Childhood Center0.7 mi · 298
- Oak Valley Elementary School1.0 mi · 337
- J. Mason Tomlin Elementary School1.2 mi · 558
- Deptford Township Middle School1.4 mi · 895
- Gloucester County Institute of Technology1.4 mi · 1,657
- Woodbury Heights Elementary1.5 mi · 248
Frequently asked questions
About Wenonah Elementary SchoolHow large is Wenonah Elementary School?
Wenonah Elementary School enrolls approximately 158 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Wenonah Elementary School serve?
Wenonah Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Wenonah Elementary School?
Approximately 8.1:1 students per teacher at Wenonah Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wenonah Elementary School?
At Wenonah Elementary School, the student body is approximately 87% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Wenonah Elementary School?
Wenonah Elementary School is overseen by Wenonah Boro School District in Gloucester County.
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