Enrollment
374
Elementary
DISTRICT 378 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHERRY HILL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340300001462
Woodcrest Elementary School
400 Cranford Dr., CHERRY HILL, NJ 08003 · (856) 429-2058 · Camden County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL374 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
12.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
58 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 63 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
66.3%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
61.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.3% | 61.2% |
| 2023-24 | 63.9% | 61.4% |
% 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
57.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Woodcrest Elementary School
Woodcrest Elementary School's state test result (57.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodcrest Elementary School this school | 374 | 15.5% | 57.9% |
| Kirby's Mill Elementary School MEDFORD | 402 | 13.4% | 67.3% |
| Lenape Meadows MAHWAH | 418 | 18.2% | 65.2% |
| Joyce Kilmer School MAHWAH | 394 | 12.2% | 61.2% |
| John F. Kennedy Elementary School WAYNE | 387 | 14.2% | 64.4% |
| Sandshore Rd. Elementary School BUDD LAKE | 409 | 10.5% | 57.2% |
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 Woodcrest Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Camden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.9% | #373 of 1,290 | #21 of 85 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.2% | #383 of 1,319 ▼ 34 | #18 of 85 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #348 of 1,319 ▲ 12 | #16 of 85 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 374 | #787 of 1,562 | #44 of 95 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #943 of 1,390 | #55 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.2% | #410 of 1,392 | #33 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.5% | #1,123 of 1,481 | #77 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.8% | #514 of 545 | #39 of 40 |
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
374
+44 (+13%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 311
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 374 | 30.5 | 12.3:1 | 16% (58) |
| 2023-24 | 358 | 27 | 13.3:1 | 11% (40) |
| 2022-23 | 360 | 27 | 13.3:1 | 9% (34) |
| 2020-21 | 330 | 27 | 12.2:1 | 9% (29) |
| 2017-18 | 371 | 22 | 16.9:1 | 8% (31) |
| 2015-16 | 372 | 21 | 17.7:1 | 8% (29) |
| 2010-11 | 460 | 25 | 18.4:1 | 5% (23) |
| 2000-01 | 397 | 21 | 18.9:1 | 3% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 311 | 19 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodcrest Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (371 to 374); teachers up 39% (22 to 30.5).
About Woodcrest Elementary School
Woodcrest Elementary School serves students in CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, as a medium-sized elementary school. It covers kindergarten through 5, with a total enrollment of 374 students.
Woodcrest Elementary School is one school in a 19-school district, Cherry Hill School District, which enrolls 10,653 students.
White students account for 57% of enrollment at Woodcrest Elementary School. Other groups include 16% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 6% multiracial. County-wide, about 55% of residents are White. Woodcrest Elementary School has a diversity index of 62%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reports 30.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 12.3 students per teacher. The 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is lower than this school's figure. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 16%. Compared with the 50% average for public schools in Camden County, the school's rate is lower.
allk12 grades Woodcrest Elementary School a B. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 57.7% for Woodcrest Elementary School. The school posts 57.9%, within a point of the prediction.
Federal survey data for Camden County show that median household income is about $88,755, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. A total of 158 public schools operate in Camden County, serving about 82,104 students.
Horace Mann Elementary School is the public school closest to Woodcrest Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Woodcrest Elementary School ranks 3rd of 9 on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 374 was 13% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 330.
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Camden County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
527,257
Census ACS
Median income
$88,755
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
158
82,104 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cherry Hill School District
- Cherry Hill High School EastHigh · 2,120 students
- Cherry Hill High School WestHigh · 1,287 students
- John A. Carusi Middle SchoolMiddle · 859 students
- Rosa International Middle SchoolMiddle · 745 students
- Henry C. Beck Middle SchoolMiddle · 701 students
- Clara Barton Elementary SchoolElementary · 494 students
Other schools in CHERRY HILL
- Cherry Hill High School EastHigh · 2,120 students
- Cherry Hill High School WestHigh · 1,287 students
- John A. Carusi Middle SchoolMiddle · 859 students
- Rosa International Middle SchoolMiddle · 745 students
- Henry C. Beck Middle SchoolMiddle · 701 students
- Clara Barton Elementary SchoolElementary · 494 students
Other Woodcrest Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 4 states are named Woodcrest Elementary. Woodcrest Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 6.
- Woodcrest ElementaryRiverside, CA · 660 students
- Woodcrest ElementaryLos Angeles, CA · 611 students
- Woodcrest Elementary SchoolMIDLAND, MI · 600 students
- Woodcrest ElementaryFullerton, CA · 303 students
- Woodcrest Elementary SchoolColumbus, OH · 286 students
Nearby schools
- Horace Mann Elementary School0.8 mi · 287
- Bret Harte Elementary School0.9 mi · 363
- Rosa International Middle School0.9 mi · 745
- James Johnson Elementary School1.2 mi · 457
- Lawnside School District1.6 mi · 333
- Osage School1.6 mi · 515
Frequently asked questions
About Woodcrest Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Woodcrest Elementary School?
Woodcrest Elementary School enrolls approximately 374 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Woodcrest Elementary School serve?
Woodcrest Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Woodcrest Elementary School have?
Woodcrest Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Woodcrest Elementary School?
Student demographics at Woodcrest Elementary School are roughly 57% White, 12% Hispanic, 9% Black, 16% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Woodcrest Elementary School in?
Woodcrest Elementary School is part of Cherry Hill School District.
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