Enrollment
212
Elementary
DISTRICT 279 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WARREN TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341698000244
Woodland School
114 Stirling Road, Warren, NJ 07059 · (908) 753-5300 · Somerset County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL212 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 77% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
7.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
40 students
DISTRICT 10% · 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 | 27 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 32 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 33 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (27) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (38).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
Woodland School→Warren Middle School
Based on grade levels within Warren Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
69.9%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.2pp since 2023
Math
65.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.9% | 65.5% |
| 2023-24 | 64.7% | 61.0% |
% 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
62.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 (62.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland School this school | 212 | 18.9% | 62.9% |
| Lyncrest Elementary School FAIR LAWN | 185 | 16.8% | 77.6% |
| Virgil I. Grissom Elementary School OLD BRIDGE | 211 | 27.0% | 47.3% |
| Horace Mann Elementary School CHERRY HILL | 287 | 19.9% | 54.3% |
| Berkeley Elementary WESTWOOD | 277 | 18.1% | 74.3% |
| Estelle V. Malberg Early Childhood Center CHERRY HILL | 174 | 21.8% | N/A |
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 Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #282 of 1,290 | #22 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #322 of 1,319 ▲ 43 | #25 of 42 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.9% | #273 of 1,319 ▲ 76 | #13 of 42 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 212 | #1,375 of 1,562 | #45 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.4:1 | #21 of 1,390 | #1 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #342 of 1,392 | #22 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.9% | #1,053 of 1,481 | #22 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.0% | #171 of 798 | #6 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
212
-17 (-7%) vs 2020
-38% since 2000-01, when it was 342
Student : Teacher
7.4:1
was 8.5:1
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 | 212 | 28.5 | 7.4:1 | 19% (40) |
| 2023-24 | 220 | 28.5 | 7.7:1 | 10% (22) |
| 2022-23 | 268 | 30.7 | 8.7:1 | 6% (17) |
| 2020-21 | 229 | 27 | 8.5:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 265 | 30.6 | 8.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2015-16 | 256 | 29 | 8.8:1 | 2% (4) |
| 2010-11 | 361 | 28 | 12.9:1 | 3% (12) |
| 2000-01 | 342 | 33 | 10.4:1 | 1% (2) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodland School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (265 to 212); teachers down 7% (30.6 to 28.5).
About Woodland School
Woodland School serves students in Warren, New Jersey, as a small elementary school. It had 212 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in New Jersey have about 405 students on average; enrollment here is 48% lower.
Warren Township School District has a total of 5 schools and 1,663 students, Woodland School among them.
More than half of enrollment at Woodland School is White: 54%. The remaining shares are 18% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 9% Black, and 5% multiracial. In Somerset County overall, the White share is about 52%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
Its staff includes 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 7.4 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 11.4:1. Woodland School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 19%. The 28% average for public schools in Somerset County is 9 points higher.
Woodland School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 77% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Woodland School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.9% is 7.1 points above the 55.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Somerset County, home to about 349,846 people, the median household earns about $140,374 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 58% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Public schools in Somerset County number 84, with about 51,276 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Watchung Hills Regional High School, is about 0.1 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Woodland School is 5th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Woodland School enrolled 229 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 212. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 8.5:1 to 7.4:1.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Woodland School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Warren Township School District
- Warren Middle SchoolMiddle · 547 students
- Mt. Horeb SchoolElementary · 331 students
- Central SchoolElementary · 312 students
- Angelo L. Tomaso SchoolElementary · 261 students
Other schools in Warren
- Watchung Hills Regional High SchoolHigh · 1,653 students
- Warren Middle SchoolMiddle · 547 students
- Mt. Horeb SchoolElementary · 331 students
- Central SchoolElementary · 312 students
- Angelo L. Tomaso SchoolElementary · 261 students
- Developmental Learning Center WarrenCombined · 94 students
Other Woodland schools
7 other US public schools in 4 states are named Woodland. Woodland School is the 7th largest of the 8.
- Woodland SchoolCONVENT STATION, NJ · 299 students
- Woodland SchoolMonroe Township, NJ · 261 students
- WoodlandMilford, MA · 1,036 students
- Woodland SchoolAppleton, WI · 478 students
- Woodland SchoolSouthwick, MA · 324 students
Nearby schools
- Watchung Hills Regional High School0.1 mi · 1,653
- Warren Middle School1.2 mi · 547
- Gillette Elementary School1.4 mi · 215
- Valley View School1.4 mi · 276
- Mountain Park School1.7 mi · 224
- Central Middle School2.0 mi · 284
Frequently asked questions
About Woodland SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Woodland School?
Woodland School enrolls approximately 212 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Woodland School serve?
Woodland School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Woodland School?
Approximately 7.4:1 students per teacher at Woodland School.
How diverse is Woodland School?
Woodland School reports a student body of 54% White, 18% Hispanic, 9% Black, 13% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Woodland School?
Woodland School is overseen by Warren Township School District in Somerset County.
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