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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Woodbrook Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
786
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDISON TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340450003366
Woodbrook Elementary School
15 ROBIN ROAD, EDISON, NJ 08820 · (732) 452-2901 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL786 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 90% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
109 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 88 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 149 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 128 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 161 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 179 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 51% smaller than its 5th grade class (179).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
76.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
75.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.4% | 75.5% |
| 2023-24 | 74.5% | 70.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
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 Woodbrook Elementary School
Woodbrook Elementary School's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbrook Elementary School this school | 786 | 13.9% | 71.3% |
| Millstone River School PLAINSBORO | 772 | 10.5% | 62.0% |
| Martin Luther King Elementary School EDISON | 591 | 14.7% | 73.8% |
| Menlo Park Elementary School EDISON | 802 | 22.3% | 69.4% |
| James Madison Intermediate School EDISON | 586 | 14.2% | 76.0% |
| Oak Tree Elementary School MONROE TOWNSHIP | 578 | 7.6% | 78.6% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 Woodbrook Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #140 of 1,290 | #11 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.5% | #156 of 1,319 ▲ 40 | #11 of 111 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.4% | #144 of 1,319 ▲ 30 | #6 of 111 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 786 | #61 of 1,562 | #6 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,154 of 1,390 | #98 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.2% | #1,151 of 1,392 | #100 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.9% | #1,166 of 1,481 | #116 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.5% | #193 of 798 | #34 of 84 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
786
-202 (-20%) vs 2020
+70% since 1990-91, when it was 462
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 786 | 58.7 | 13.4:1 | 14% (109) |
| 2023-24 | 885 | 64.4 | 13.7:1 | 12% (109) |
| 2022-23 | 940 | 58.9 | 16.0:1 | 11% (101) |
| 2020-21 | 988 | 63 | 15.7:1 | 3% (34) |
| 2017-18 | 964 | 46.6 | 20.7:1 | 5% (53) |
| 2015-16 | 948 | 50 | 19.0:1 | 7% (63) |
| 2010-11 | 861 | 42 | 20.5:1 | 4% (36) |
| 2000-01 | 513 | 30 | 17.1:1 | 3% (14) |
| 1990-91 | 462 | 23 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodbrook Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (964 to 786); teachers up 26% (46.6 to 58.7).
About Woodbrook Elementary School
Woodbrook Elementary School is a large elementary school in EDISON, New Jersey. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 786 students in kindergarten through 5. Against the 405-student average for elementary schools in New Jersey, enrollment here is 94% higher.
Edison Township School District (19 schools, 16,617 students) runs Woodbrook Elementary School.
Asian students make up a majority at Woodbrook Elementary School, at 80%. The remaining shares are 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, and 3% White. Census estimates put the Asian share of Middlesex County's population at about 26%. Pick two students at random and there is a 35% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 58.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.4:1. On average, elementary schools in New Jersey have 11.4:1, compared with 13.4:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Woodbrook Elementary School is 14%. The gap from the 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County is 28 points.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Woodbrook Elementary School receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Woodbrook Elementary School, the prediction is 58.6% and the result is 71.3%.
Census Bureau estimates for Middlesex County show that the median household income is $111,549, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Woodbrook Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in the county.
Woodrow Wilson Middle School is the public school closest to Woodbrook Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Woodbrook Elementary School is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Woodbrook Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment declined 20% from its 2020-21 level of 988. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.7:1 to 13.4:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Woodbrook Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edison Township School District
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,060 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 954 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
Other schools in EDISON
- John P. Stevens High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 2,393 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,206 students
- Herbert Hoover Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,060 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 954 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 946 students
Other Woodbrook Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Woodbrook Elementary. Woodbrook Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- WOODBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLELKHORN, NE · 641 students
- Woodbrook Elementary SchoolCarmel, IN · 628 students
- Woodbrook ElementaryCharlottesville, VA · 522 students
Nearby schools
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School0.2 mi · 1,206
- Campbell Elementary School1.1 mi · 698
- Metuchen High School1.3 mi · 718
- Menlo Park Elementary School1.4 mi · 802
- John Adams Middle School1.5 mi · 930
- Mildred B. Moss Elementary School1.8 mi · 152
Frequently asked questions
About Woodbrook Elementary SchoolHow large is Woodbrook Elementary School?
Woodbrook Elementary School enrolls approximately 786 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Woodbrook Elementary School serve?
Woodbrook Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Woodbrook Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Woodbrook Elementary School is approximately 13.4:1 (59 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Woodbrook Elementary School?
Woodbrook Elementary School reports a student body of 3% White, 3% Hispanic, 8% Black, 80% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Woodbrook Elementary School in?
Woodbrook Elementary School is part of Edison Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.