Enrollment
401
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAYREVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341464003598
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School
65 DANE STREET, SAYREVILLE, NJ 08872 · (732) 525-5240 · Middlesex County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL401 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 63% 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.
- 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
13.4:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
187 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 30 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 91 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 26% |
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School→Samsel Upper Elementary School→Sayreville Middle School→Sayreville War Memorial High School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
49.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.9pp since 2023
Math
52.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 52.9% |
| 2023-24 | 45.1% | 43.9% |
% 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
47.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Woodrow Wilson Elementary School
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School's state test result (47.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodrow Wilson Elementary School this school | 401 | 46.6% | 47.7% |
| Harry S. Truman Elementary School PARLIN | 425 | 46.4% | 52.8% |
| Shady Lane Elementary School WESTVILLE | 422 | 48.3% | 31.6% |
| Roebling Elementary School ROEBLING | 410 | 52.2% | 22.4% |
| Emma Arleth Elementary School PARLIN | 485 | 47.0% | 48.0% |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary School PARLIN | 488 | 46.1% | 48.6% |
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 Woodrow Wilson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #577 of 1,290 | #58 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #539 of 1,319 ▲ 137 | #58 of 111 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #734 of 1,319 ▲ 52 | #60 of 111 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 401 | #698 of 1,562 | #73 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,153 of 1,390 | #97 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.4% | #13 of 1,392 | #2 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 46.6% | #634 of 1,481 | #47 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.5% | #537 of 545 | #30 of 30 |
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
401
+95 (+31%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 331
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
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 | 401 | 30 | 13.4:1 | 47% (187) |
| 2023-24 | 396 | 30.5 | 13.0:1 | 46% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 328 | 28.3 | 11.6:1 | 40% (131) |
| 2020-21 | 306 | 25 | 12.2:1 | 32% (99) |
| 2017-18 | 399 | 26.1 | 15.3:1 | 35% (138) |
| 2015-16 | 403 | 27 | 14.9:1 | 36% (147) |
| 2010-11 | 358 | 24 | 14.9:1 | 32% (116) |
| 2000-01 | 414 | 25 | 16.6:1 | 23% (97) |
| 1990-91 | 331 | 21 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodrow Wilson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (399 to 401); teachers up 15% (26.1 to 30).
About Woodrow Wilson Elementary School
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school based in SAYREVILLE, New Jersey. The school enrolls 401 students in pre-K through 3.
Within Sayreville School District, Woodrow Wilson Elementary School is one of 9 schools. The district enrolls 6,215 students.
The student body at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School has no majority group. White students lead at 37%. Other groups make up 22% Hispanic, 18% Black, 15% Asian, and 6% multiracial. In Middlesex County overall, the White share is about 41%. A diversity index of 75% means there is a 75% chance two randomly chosen students at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School are from different groups.
There are 30 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 13.4:1. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 11.4:1. Of all students at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, 47% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Woodrow Wilson Elementary School outscored 63%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School is 7.1 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (47.7% versus 40.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Jersey.
In the wider Middlesex County area, the median household earns about $111,549 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Woodrow Wilson Elementary School shares Middlesex County with 213 other public schools.
Sayreville Middle School is about 1.8 miles from Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Woodrow Wilson Elementary School is 1st among 6 schools close by.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 31%. The school's ratio increased from 12.2:1 to 13.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 Sayreville School District
- Sayreville War Memorial High SchoolHigh · 1,764 students
- Sayreville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Samsel Upper Elementary SchoolElementary · 870 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 488 students
- Emma Arleth Elementary SchoolElementary · 485 students
- Harry S. Truman Elementary SchoolElementary · 425 students
Other Woodrow Wilson Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named Woodrow Wilson Elementary. Woodrow Wilson Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 18.
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolNEW BRUNSWICK, NJ · 351 students
- Woodrow Wilson ElementaryCorona, CA · 696 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolCicero, IL · 622 students
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolBartlesville, OK · 529 students
- Woodrow Wilson ElementaryColton, CA · 465 students
Nearby schools
- Sayreville Middle School1.8 mi · 1,294
- Center for Lifelong Learning1.9 mi · 183
- South River Elementary School1.9 mi · 496
- South River Middle School2.0 mi · 524
- South River High School2.0 mi · 716
- South River Early Learning Center2.1 mi · 151
Frequently asked questions
About Woodrow Wilson Elementary SchoolHow large is Woodrow Wilson Elementary School?
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School enrolls approximately 401 students in grades PK-03.
What age range does Woodrow Wilson Elementary School serve?
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 03.
How many students per teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School.
How diverse is Woodrow Wilson Elementary School?
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School reports a student body of 37% White, 22% Hispanic, 18% Black, 15% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in?
Woodrow Wilson Elementary School is part of Sayreville School District.
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