1
What do students at Wildwood Elementary School actually talk about outside of class?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
423
Elementary
DISTRICT 244 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNTAIN LAKES PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341101004422
Wildwood Elementary School
51 Glen Rd., Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046 · (973) 334-3609 · Morris County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL423 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% 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
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 6.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
1%
3 students
DISTRICT 5% · 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 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
Based on grade levels within Mountain Lakes Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
87.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.3pp since 2023
Math
85.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.1% | 85.2% |
| 2023-24 | 85.8% | 82.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
82.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Wildwood Elementary School
Wildwood Elementary School's state test result (82.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildwood Elementary School this school | 423 | 0.7% | 82.3% |
| South Valley Elementary School MOORESTOWN | 400 | 2.8% | 78.3% |
| Willard Elementary School RIDGEWOOD | 440 | 1.1% | 75.9% |
| Oak Street School Basking Ridge | 427 | 2.6% | 77.9% |
| Edith A. Bogert Elementary School UPPER SADDLE RIVER | 368 | 0.8% | 76.2% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Westfield | 467 | 0.6% | 74.7% |
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 Wildwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.3% | #24 of 1,290 | #3 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.2% | #34 of 1,319 ▲ 10 | #3 of 77 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #31 of 1,319 ▲ 1 | #4 of 77 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 423 | #626 of 1,562 | #22 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #470 of 1,390 | #39 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.8% | #695 of 1,392 | #45 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 0.7% | #1,471 of 1,481 | #90 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #493 of 798 | #22 of 44 |
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
423
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
+26% since 1990-91, when it was 335
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 423 | 40.5 | 10.4:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2023-24 | 438 | 40.5 | 10.8:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 458 | 37 | 12.4:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2020-21 | 428 | 38 | 11.3:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 462 | 40.8 | 11.3:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2015-16 | 451 | 41 | 11.0:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2010-11 | 483 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 531 | 41 | 12.9:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 335 | 20 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wildwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (462 to 423); teachers down 1% (40.8 to 40.5).
About Wildwood Elementary School
Wildwood Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Enrollment is 423 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 5.
The Mountain Lakes Public School District system has 4 schools and 1,296 students.
Roughly 64% of students at Wildwood Elementary School are White. The rest of enrollment is 19% Asian, 10% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. That is close to the 68% White share among all Morris County residents. Wildwood Elementary School's diversity index is 54%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 40.5 full-time positions, a ratio of 10.4:1. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey have 11.4:1, compared with 10.4:1 here. Around 1% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 19% average for public schools in Morris County is 18 points.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Wildwood Elementary School receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
After accounting for student poverty, Wildwood Elementary School is in the top 10% of New Jersey schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 82.3% is 16.5 points above the 65.8% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Morris County show that the median household income is $137,326, about 58% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 3%. Besides Wildwood Elementary School, Morris County has 155 other public schools.
Briarcliff Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of Wildwood Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Wildwood Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Wildwood Elementary School was 428 in 2020-21 and 423 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Wildwood Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Morris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
514,528
Census ACS
Median income
$137,326
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
72,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mountain Lakes Public School District
- Mountain Lakes High SchoolHigh · 546 students
- Briarcliff Middle SchoolMiddle · 263 students
- Lake Drive Program for Hearing ImpairedElementary · 64 students
Other schools in Mountain Lakes
- Mountain Lakes High SchoolHigh · 546 students
- Briarcliff Middle SchoolMiddle · 263 students
- Lake Drive Program for Hearing ImpairedElementary · 64 students
- Academy for BiotechnologyCombined
Other Wildwood Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 12 states are named Wildwood Elementary. Wildwood Elementary School is the 10th largest of the 15.
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolTOMBALL, TX · 819 students
- WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWILDWOOD, FL · 678 students
- WILDWOOD ELEMENTARYSTILLWATER, MN · 648 students
- Wildwood ElementaryYucaipa, CA · 607 students
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolFEDERAL WAY, WA · 598 students
Nearby schools
- Briarcliff Middle School0.2 mi · 263
- Mountain Lakes High School0.3 mi · 546
- Lake Drive Program for Hearing Impaired0.4 mi · 64
- Intervale Elementary School1.0 mi · 287
- School Street School1.4 mi · 325
- Boonton High School1.6 mi · 646
Frequently asked questions
About Wildwood Elementary SchoolHow large is Wildwood Elementary School?
Wildwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 423 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Wildwood Elementary School serve?
Wildwood Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Wildwood Elementary School?
Approximately 10.4:1 students per teacher at Wildwood Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wildwood Elementary School?
At Wildwood Elementary School, the student body is approximately 64% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 19% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Wildwood Elementary School public or private?
Wildwood Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mountain Lakes Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.