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Woodbine Avenue Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Woodbine Avenue Elementary School
Woodbine Avenue Elementary School operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in AVENEL, New Jersey, run under Woodbridge Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 401 students spanning grades K through 5.
Woodbine Avenue Elementary School is one of 24 schools operated by Woodbridge Township School District, a district that works with 13,869 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Woodbine Avenue Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Asian at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 21% Hispanic, 21% Black, 11% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Woodbine Avenue Elementary School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, Woodbine Avenue Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 41.2%, a residual of +2.4 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,549, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Middlesex County runs 214 public schools (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students), of which Woodbine Avenue Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Avenel Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodbine Avenue Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodbine Avenue Elementary School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 33.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Looking at the recent track record. Woodbine Avenue Elementary School's enrollment has fell 30% since 2018, when it stood at 574 (now 401). Asian enrollment moved from 60% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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