William Woodruff School

William Woodruff School is a low-enrollment elementary school for students in BERKELEY HTS, New Jersey. Its 238 students are spread across kindergarten through 2. The typical figure for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405 students.

Berkeley Heights School District includes 6 schools. Together they enroll 2,340 students.

White students are the majority at William Woodruff School, with 55% of enrollment. Other groups make up 20% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 3% Black. Union County as a whole is about 39% White, so the school's share is higher. The school's diversity index is 63%, meaning two students picked at random have a 63% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1 at William Woodruff School, with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.6 above the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 1%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Union County is 52%.

Across Union County, the median household income is $103,202, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Union County is home to 180 public schools and about 99,046 public school students.

Thomas P. Hughes School is located about 0.8 miles from William Woodruff School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).

Enrollment has grown by 58 students since 2020-21, to 238. The school's ratio rose from 12.9:1 to 14.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.

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