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Woodrow Wilson Middle School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Woodrow Wilson Middle School
Set in EDISON, New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson Middle School is a heavily attended intermediate school, one of the schools within Edison Township School District. It serves 1,206 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 109% larger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.
Woodrow Wilson Middle School is one of 19 schools operated by Edison Township School District, a district that educates 16,617 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Woodrow Wilson Middle School logs that nearly all students (86%) are Asian. Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 4% White, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 26% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Woodrow Wilson Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.5%; this one delivers 65.7%.
In the broader community, census data for Middlesex County shows the typical household earns roughly $111,549 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Woodrow Wilson Middle School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).
Nearest neighbor: Woodbrook Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodrow Wilson Middle School. On composite proficiency, Woodrow Wilson Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.5%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodrow Wilson Middle School has held roughly steady, going from 1,196 students in 2018 to 1,206 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 10% to 4% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.
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