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Does Willard Elementary School have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
440
Elementary
DISTRICT 344 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIDGEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341383000782
Willard Elementary School
601 MORNINGSIDE RD, RIDGEWOOD, NJ 07451 · (201) 670-2770 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL440 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
13.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
1%
5 students
DISTRICT 3% · 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 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
81.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -1.1pp since 2023
Math
81.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 | 81.4% | 81.1% |
| 2023-24 | 82.5% | 80.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
75.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 Willard Elementary School
Willard Elementary School's state test result (75.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willard Elementary School this school | 440 | 1.1% | 75.9% |
| Oak Street School Basking Ridge | 427 | 2.6% | 77.9% |
| Wildwood Elementary School Mountain Lakes | 423 | 0.7% | 82.3% |
| Tamaques Elementary School Westfield | 427 | 3.5% | 71.8% |
| South Valley Elementary School MOORESTOWN | 400 | 2.8% | 78.3% |
| Ridge Elementary School RIDGEWOOD | 448 | 1.6% | 76.4% |
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 Willard Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.9% | #74 of 1,290 | #21 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.1% | #77 of 1,319 ▼ 25 | #24 of 149 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.4% | #74 of 1,319 ▼ 17 | #23 of 149 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 440 | #570 of 1,562 | #35 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #1,108 of 1,390 | #123 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.1% | #720 of 1,392 | #100 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 1.1% | #1,449 of 1,481 | #143 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.4% | #408 of 798 | #45 of 85 |
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
440
-21 (-5%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 373
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 440 | 33.6 | 13.1:1 | 1% (5) |
| 2023-24 | 470 | 35.1 | 13.4:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2022-23 | 471 | 34.5 | 13.7:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2020-21 | 461 | 35 | 13.2:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2017-18 | 491 | 35.2 | 14.0:1 | 1% (5) |
| 2015-16 | 501 | 34 | 14.7:1 | 2% (8) |
| 2010-11 | 485 | 24 | 20.2:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2000-01 | 508 | 29 | 17.5:1 | 0% (2) |
| 1990-91 | 373 | 22 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Willard Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (491 to 440); teachers down 4% (35.2 to 33.6).
About Willard Elementary School
Willard Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in RIDGEWOOD, New Jersey, one of the schools in Ridgewood Public School District. It has an enrollment of 440 students in kindergarten through 5.
Ridgewood Public School District runs 10 schools with a combined 5,419 students. Willard Elementary School is one of them.
About 65% of the student body at Willard Elementary School is White. The remaining students are 17% Asian, 9% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. Among people living in Bergen County, the White share is about 55%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
Willard Elementary School reports a ratio of 13.1 students per teacher, from 33.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 13.1:1 compares with an average of 11.4:1 for elementary schools in New Jersey. Lunch program data show 1% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is lower than the 28% average for public schools in Bergen County.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Willard Elementary School outscored 90%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Willard Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 75.9%, compared with a predicted 65.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Bergen County, the median household earns about $124,884 a year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Bergen County has 291 public schools with about 133,883 students, including Willard Elementary School.
Willard Elementary School is about 0.8 miles from Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School, its nearest public school. Willard Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Willard Elementary School's average proficiency of 75.9% compares with 66.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
In the federal locale system, Willard Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 440, compared with 461 in 2020-21.
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Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ridgewood Public School District
- Ridgewood High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 644 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 627 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Somerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Hawes Elementary SchoolElementary · 357 students
Other schools in RIDGEWOOD
- Ridgewood High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 644 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 627 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Somerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Hawes Elementary SchoolElementary · 357 students
Other Willard Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 9 states are named Willard Elementary. Willard Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 13.
- Willard Elementary SchoolWillard, OH · 558 students
- Willard ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 534 students
- Willard ElementaryNorfolk, VA · 441 students
- Willard ElementaryPasadena, CA · 394 students
- Willard ElementarySpokane, WA · 384 students
Nearby schools
- Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School0.8 mi · 367
- Ridge Elementary School0.9 mi · 448
- Godwin Elementary School1.0 mi · 233
- Ho-Ho-Kus Public School1.0 mi · 573
- Highland Elementary School1.0 mi · 306
- Waldwick Middle School1.1 mi · 401
Frequently asked questions
About Willard Elementary SchoolHow large is Willard Elementary School?
Willard Elementary School enrolls approximately 440 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Willard Elementary School serve?
Willard Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Willard Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Willard Elementary School is approximately 13.1:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Willard Elementary School?
Willard Elementary School reports a student body of 65% White, 9% Hispanic, 0% Black, 17% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Willard Elementary School public or private?
Willard Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Ridgewood Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.