Williamstown High School

Williamstown High School operates as a big high school in WILLIAMSTOWN, New Jersey, one of the schools within Monroe Township Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,769 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Williamstown High School sits 90% above that benchmark.

Within Monroe Township Public School District, which oversees 6 schools and 5,703 students, Williamstown High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Williamstown High School logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% Black, 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Gloucester County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 121 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Williamstown High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Williamstown High School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.9%; Williamstown High School posts 28.8%, -18.1 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Gloucester County put median household income runs about $105,115, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Gloucester County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students), Williamstown High School is one campus in the mix.

Williamstown Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Williamstown High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.3%.

Williamstown High School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Williamstown High School has ticked up 17%, going from 1,517 students in 2018 to 1,769 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 66% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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