Enrollment
311
Elementary
DISTRICT 409 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340723005232
Woodfern Elementary School
425 Woodfern Road, Hillsborough, NJ 08844 · (908) 431-6600 · Somerset County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL311 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% 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
9.4:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
45 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 19% smaller than its 4th grade class (68).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Woodfern Elementary School→Auten Road Intermediate School→Hillsborough Township Middle School→Hillsborough High School
Based on grade levels within Hillsborough Township Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
68.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . -6.6pp since 2023
Math
73.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.2% | 73.1% |
| 2023-24 | 74.8% | 73.9% |
% 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
72.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% 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 Woodfern Elementary School
Woodfern Elementary School's state test result (72.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodfern Elementary School this school | 311 | 14.5% | 72.4% |
| Central School Warren | 312 | 12.2% | 71.3% |
| Memorial Elementary School PARAMUS | 289 | 13.5% | 72.3% |
| Bradley Gardens Primary School Bridgewater | 279 | 13.6% | 75.0% |
| Riverside School PRINCETON | 306 | 12.1% | 80.8% |
| Parkway Elementary School PARAMUS | 297 | 15.8% | 73.5% |
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 Woodfern Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #126 of 1,290 | #10 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.1% | #194 of 1,319 ▼ 56 | #15 of 42 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #304 of 1,319 ▼ 135 | #17 of 42 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 311 | #1,060 of 1,562 | #38 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #210 of 1,390 | #20 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.9% | #253 of 1,392 | #16 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.5% | #1,148 of 1,481 | #25 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.3% | #458 of 798 | #19 of 31 |
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
311
-43 (-12%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 307
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 311 | 33 | 9.4:1 | 14% (45) |
| 2023-24 | 313 | 34.2 | 9.2:1 | 13% (42) |
| 2022-23 | 333 | 33 | 10.1:1 | 11% (38) |
| 2020-21 | 354 | 34 | 10.4:1 | 11% (40) |
| 2017-18 | 343 | 39 | 8.8:1 | 12% (42) |
| 2015-16 | 360 | 42 | 8.6:1 | 12% (44) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 33 | 12.2:1 | 12% (50) |
| 2000-01 | 398 | 32 | 12.4:1 | 2% (7) |
| 1990-91 | 307 | 18 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodfern Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (343 to 311); teachers down 15% (39 to 33).
About Woodfern Elementary School
Woodfern Elementary School operates as a small elementary school in Hillsborough, New Jersey. It had 311 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 4. Elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students, which makes this school 23% below average.
Woodfern Elementary School is run by Hillsborough Township Public School District, whose 9 schools enroll 7,191 students.
At Woodfern Elementary School, White students make up the biggest share, 46%. Enrollment also includes 31% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 67%.
On staff are 33 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 9.4:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New Jersey average 11.4:1. Woodfern Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 14%. For comparison, public schools in Somerset County average 28%.
On the allk12 Grade, Woodfern Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 91% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
The model predicts 58.2% for a school in New Jersey with Woodfern Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Woodfern Elementary School posts 72.4%.
Looking at the county, Somerset County, median household income comes to about $140,374, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 58% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. The county's public schools total 84, with about 51,276 students.
Among nearby public schools, Three Bridges School is closest at about 2.7 miles. Woodfern Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with 4 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 59.2% proficiency; Woodfern Elementary School posts 72.4%.
The NCES locale for Woodfern Elementary School is Rural: Fringe, which covers schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
The school's enrollment fell 12% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Woodfern Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Somerset County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
349,846
Census ACS
Median income
$140,374
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
51,276 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hillsborough Township Public School District
- Hillsborough High SchoolHigh · 2,377 students
- Hillsborough Township Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,246 students
- Auten Road Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Sunnymead Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
- Hillsborough Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 467 students
- Woods Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
Other schools in Hillsborough
- Hillsborough High SchoolHigh · 2,377 students
- Hillsborough Township Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,246 students
- Auten Road Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- Sunnymead Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
- Hillsborough Township Elementary SchoolElementary · 467 students
- Woods Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
Nearby schools
- Three Bridges School2.7 mi · 293
- Barley Sheaf Elementary School3.5 mi · 376
- Whiton Elementary School3.8 mi · 617
- J.P. Case Middle School3.9 mi · 730
- Hunterdon Central Regional High School District5.1 mi · 2,238
- Auten Road Intermediate School5.4 mi · 1,112
Frequently asked questions
About Woodfern Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Woodfern Elementary School?
Woodfern Elementary School enrolls approximately 311 students in grades KG-04.
Is Woodfern Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Woodfern Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Woodfern Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Woodfern Elementary School is approximately 9.4:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Woodfern Elementary School?
Student demographics at Woodfern Elementary School are roughly 46% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black, 31% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Woodfern Elementary School public or private?
Woodfern Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hillsborough Township Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.