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Woodbury Jr-Sr High School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Woodbury Jr-Sr High School
Set in Woodbury, New Jersey, Woodbury Jr-Sr High School is a moderately sized four-year high school, overseen by Woodbury City Public School District. It enrolls 818 students across grades 6 through 12.
Woodbury Jr-Sr High School is one of 4 schools operated by Woodbury City Public School District, a district that teaches 1,709 students overall.
On demographics, Woodbury Jr-Sr High School reports that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 35% Hispanic, 17% White, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.
On the income-and-resources front, Woodbury Jr-Sr High School lists 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Woodbury Jr-Sr High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Gloucester County (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Woodbury Jr-Sr High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.4%.
In the broader community, census data for Gloucester County shows median household earnings sit near $105,115, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Woodbury Jr-Sr High School is one of 86 public schools in Gloucester County (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students).
Nearest neighbor: Walnut Street School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodbury Jr-Sr High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodbury Jr-Sr High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 34.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 16%: 708 students in 2018 compared to 818 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for Woodbury Jr-Sr High School typically covers 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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