Enrollment
261
Elementary
DISTRICT 406 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONROE TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341050003444
Woodland School
42 Harrison Ave, Monroe Township, NJ 08831 · (732) 251-1177 · Middlesex County
GRADES 04–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL261 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
10.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
43 students
DISTRICT 11% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 127 | 49% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 51% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Based on grade levels within Monroe Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
65.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.8pp 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 58 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 | 65.8% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 53.2% |
% 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
54.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Woodland School
Woodland School's state test result (54.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland School this school | 261 | 16.5% | 54.0% |
| Walter M. Schirra Elementary School OLD BRIDGE | 268 | 14.9% | 64.6% |
| Oak Ridge Heights Elementary School COLONIA | 292 | 20.9% | 55.6% |
| Frances DeMasi Elementary School MARLTON | 332 | 10.5% | 52.3% |
| David C Abbott Early Learning Center MORGANVILLE | 218 | 10.6% | N/A |
| Stony Brook School Branchburg | 310 | 10.0% | 59.7% |
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 Woodland School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #446 of 1,290 | #40 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #443 of 1,319 ▲ 48 | #42 of 111 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #367 of 1,319 ▼ 8 | #24 of 111 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 261 | #1,247 of 1,562 | #111 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #331 of 1,390 | #30 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.1% | #633 of 1,392 | #85 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.5% | #1,107 of 1,481 | #109 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.3% | #30 of 798 | #4 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
261
-53 (-17%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 381
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 261 | 26.2 | 10.0:1 | 16% (43) |
| 2023-24 | 252 | 26.2 | 9.6:1 | 13% (32) |
| 2022-23 | 271 | 25.7 | 10.6:1 | 13% (34) |
| 2020-21 | 314 | 28 | 11.2:1 | 9% (27) |
| 2017-18 | 410 | 30.3 | 13.6:1 | 13% (53) |
| 2015-16 | 399 | 39 | 10.2:1 | 8% (31) |
| 2010-11 | 512 | 27 | 19.0:1 | 5% (26) |
| 2000-01 | 411 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 7% (28) |
| 1990-91 | 381 | 26 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodland School.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (410 to 261); teachers down 14% (30.3 to 26.2).
About Woodland School
Woodland School is a low-enrollment elementary school in New Jersey, located in Monroe Township. Classes run from 4 through 5, and the school has 261 students. The average for elementary schools in New Jersey is about 405 students, so this school is 36% smaller than average.
Woodland School is one of 8 schools in Monroe Township School District, which enrolls 6,701 students in total.
Woodland School is 62% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 22% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. That compares with about 41% White among all Middlesex County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 56% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 26.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Woodland School was 10.0:1. This ratio sits 1.5 below the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 16%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Middlesex County is 42%.
Measured against New Jersey public elementary schools, Woodland School receives a B-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On BeatsExpectations, Woodland School is 3.1 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New Jersey schools.
Middlesex County census figures show that the median household income is $111,549, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 214 public schools in Middlesex County, enrolling about 129,255 students in all.
The closest other public school is E Raymond Appleby Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. Woodland School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 43.1% on proficiency, and Woodland School is above that at 54.0%.
In the federal locale system, Woodland School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment declined 17% from its 2020-21 level of 314. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 11.2:1 to 10.0:1.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Monroe Township School District
- Monroe Township High SchoolHigh · 2,583 students
- Monroe Township Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,681 students
- Oak Tree Elementary SchoolElementary · 578 students
- Mill LakeElementary · 462 students
- Brookside Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
- Applegarth Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
Other schools in Monroe Township
- Monroe Township High SchoolHigh · 2,583 students
- Monroe Township Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,681 students
- Oak Tree Elementary SchoolElementary · 578 students
- Brookside Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
- Academy Learning CenterCombined · 113 students
Other Woodland schools
7 other US public schools in 4 states are named Woodland. Woodland School is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Woodland SchoolCONVENT STATION, NJ · 299 students
- Woodland SchoolWarren, NJ · 212 students
- WoodlandMilford, MA · 1,036 students
- Woodland SchoolAppleton, WI · 478 students
- Woodland SchoolSouthwick, MA · 324 students
Nearby schools
- E Raymond Appleby Elementary School0.9 mi · 365
- Mill Lake1.0 mi · 462
- Spotswood High School1.3 mi · 762
- Jonas Salk Middle School1.4 mi · 886
- Spotswood Memorial Middle School1.4 mi · 269
- Raymond E. Voorhees Elementary School1.7 mi · 424
Frequently asked questions
About Woodland SchoolHow large is Woodland School?
Woodland School enrolls approximately 261 students in grades 04-05.
What age range does Woodland School serve?
Woodland School serves students from grade 04 through grade 05.
How many teachers does Woodland School have?
Woodland School employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1.
How diverse is Woodland School?
Woodland School reports a student body of 62% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% Black, 22% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Woodland School?
Woodland School is overseen by Monroe Township School District in Middlesex County.
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