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Enrollment
554
High
DISTRICT 430 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WOOD-RIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341830000922
Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School
258 HACKENSACK ST, WOOD RIDGE, NJ 07075 · (201) 933-6777 · Bergen County
GRADES 07–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL554 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 31% of New Jersey public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
148 students
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 104 | 19% |
| Grade 9 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 10 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 12 | 108 | 19% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Wood-Ridge School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
58.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +11.5pp since 2023
Math
30.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.9% | 30.9% |
| 2023-24 | 47.4% | 33.7% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
33.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School
Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School's state test result (33.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School this school | 554 | 26.7% | 33.9% |
| New Milford High School NEW MILFORD | 584 | 21.2% | 49.4% |
| Hasbrouck Heights High School HASBROUCK HEIGHTS | 499 | 22.0% | 52.9% |
| Newton High School NEWTON | 680 | 29.3% | 31.2% |
| Pompton Lakes High School POMPTON LAKES | 610 | 24.9% | 41.0% |
| David Brearley Middle/High School Kenilworth | 774 | 33.2% | 28.9% |
Matched among New Jersey high 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 Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.9% | #219 of 397 | #41 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #183 of 400 ▼ 9 | #36 of 48 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #147 of 395 ▲ 118 | #34 of 48 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 554 | #309 of 442 | #38 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #202 of 388 | #30 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #116 of 389 | #15 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.7% | #243 of 405 | #21 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.4% | #83 of 200 | #12 of 31 |
Ranked against other public high 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
554
+10 (+2%) vs 2020
+62% since 1990-91, when it was 343
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 554 | 44.9 | 12.3:1 | 27% (148) |
| 2023-24 | 522 | 46.4 | 11.3:1 | 6% (30) |
| 2022-23 | 530 | 46.4 | 11.4:1 | 15% (80) |
| 2020-21 | 544 | 46 | 11.8:1 | 19% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 618 | 46.8 | 13.2:1 | 20% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 579 | 47 | 12.3:1 | 24% (137) |
| 2010-11 | 310 | 29 | 10.7:1 | 17% (52) |
| 2000-01 | 243 | 16 | 15.2:1 | 11% (26) |
| 1990-91 | 343 | 33 | 10.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (618 to 554); teachers down 4% (46.8 to 44.9).
About Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School
Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School is a low-enrollment high school in WOOD RIDGE, New Jersey, administered by Wood-Ridge School District. Enrollment totals 554 students across grades 7 through 12. On average, high schools in New Jersey enroll around 929, and this school is 40% below that mark.
The district, Wood-Ridge School District, operates 3 schools serving 1,289 students.
The biggest share of students at Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School, 46%, is White. Next come 39% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 6% Black. That compares with about 55% White among all Bergen County residents. A diversity index of 63% means there is a 63% chance two randomly chosen students at Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School is 12.3:1, based on 44.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey. Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School counts 27% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 28% average for public schools in Bergen County.
Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 31% of New Jersey public high schools.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 51.5% for Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 33.9%. The 17.7-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of New Jersey schools.
For Bergen County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $124,884 a year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Bergen County number 291, with about 133,883 students.
Wood-Ridge Intermediate School is about 0.3 miles from Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School ranks 9th 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.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 544 to 554, a small change.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Wood-Ridge School District
- Catherine E. Doyle Elementary SchoolElementary · 479 students
- Wood-Ridge Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 256 students
Other schools in WOOD RIDGE
- Catherine E. Doyle Elementary SchoolElementary · 479 students
Nearby schools
- Wood-Ridge Intermediate School0.3 mi · 256
- Euclid Elementary School0.6 mi · 362
- Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School0.7 mi · 479
- Carlstadt Public School0.8 mi · 478
- Hilltop School1.3 mi · 337
- Henry P. Becton Regional High School1.3 mi · 853
Frequently asked questions
About Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High SchoolHow large is Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School?
Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School enrolls approximately 554 students in grades 07-12.
What age range does Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School serve?
Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School serves students from grade 07 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School have?
Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School?
Student demographics at Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School are roughly 46% White, 39% Hispanic, 6% Black, 8% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School?
Wood-Ridge Jr/Sr High School is overseen by Wood-Ridge School District in Bergen County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.