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Woodbrook Elementary School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Woodbrook Elementary School
Woodbrook Elementary School is an expansive elementary school in EDISON, New Jersey, operated by Edison Township School District. The school teaches 786 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 94% above typical.
Edison Township School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 16,617 students; Woodbrook Elementary School is among them.
In terms of who attends, Woodbrook Elementary School logs that Asian students make up the majority at 80%. The remainder looks like 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 26% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Woodbrook Elementary School has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Woodbrook Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.6%, the actual is 71.3%, a residual of +12.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, Middlesex County reports that median household income runs about $111,549, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Woodbrook Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).
Nearest neighbor: Woodrow Wilson Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Woodbrook Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 68.8%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodbrook Elementary School has declined 18%, going from 964 students in 2018 to 786 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share decreased from 89% to 80%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.
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