Woodbine Elementary School

Woodbine Elementary School is a small K-5 school in WOODBINE, New Jersey, part of Woodbine School District. The school serves 247 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Woodbine Elementary School sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.

Woodbine School District is the operating authority for Woodbine Elementary School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Woodbine Elementary School records that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% White, 19% Black, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Cape May County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cape May County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woodbine Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.8%, the actual is 15.9%, a residual of -5.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cape May County) reports that median household income runs about $91,128, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cape May County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,388 students), Woodbine Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dennis Township Elementary/Middle Schools, around 2.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Woodbine Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 13%: 218 students in 2018 compared to 247 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 37% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 in 2025.

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