Enrollment
410
Elementary
DISTRICT 409 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340723005234
Woods Road Elementary School
120 South Woods Road, Hillsborough, NJ 08844 · (908) 431-6600 · Somerset County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL410 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% 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.
- 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
10.3:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
43 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 99 | 24% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 24% smaller than its 4th grade class (70).
Student demographics
65%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
Woods Road 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.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
73.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . -9.2pp since 2023
Math
78.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.5% | 78.2% |
| 2023-24 | 82.7% | 75.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
77.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Woods Road Elementary School
Woods Road Elementary School's state test result (77.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woods Road Elementary School this school | 410 | 10.5% | 77.3% |
| Cranbury School CRANBURY | 421 | 9.5% | 68.7% |
| Robertsville Elementary School MORGANVILLE | 438 | 14.4% | 70.7% |
| Joseph D. Sharp Elementary School CHERRY HILL | 455 | 15.2% | 78.0% |
| Hawes Elementary School RIDGEWOOD | 357 | 5.0% | 72.7% |
| Liberty Corner School Liberty Corner | 429 | 3.7% | 75.3% |
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 Woods Road Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Somerset County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.3% | #55 of 1,290 | #4 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.2% | #111 of 1,319 ▲ 10 | #8 of 42 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #195 of 1,319 ▼ 142 | #7 of 42 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #670 of 1,562 | #23 of 46 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #421 of 1,390 | #31 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #341 of 1,392 | #21 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.5% | #1,240 of 1,481 | #33 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #280 of 798 | #10 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
410
-11 (-3%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 349
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 410 | 39.8 | 10.3:1 | 10% (43) |
| 2023-24 | 415 | 39 | 10.6:1 | 6% (23) |
| 2022-23 | 375 | 38 | 9.9:1 | 7% (26) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 35 | 12.0:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2017-18 | 481 | 42 | 11.4:1 | 3% (15) |
| 2015-16 | 431 | 44 | 9.8:1 | 3% (13) |
| 2010-11 | 431 | 26 | 16.6:1 | 4% (19) |
| 2000-01 | 477 | 36 | 13.3:1 | 1% (5) |
| 1990-91 | 349 | 24 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woods Road Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (481 to 410); teachers down 5% (42 to 39.8).
About Woods Road Elementary School
Woods Road Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Hillsborough, New Jersey, administered by Hillsborough Township Public School District. Enrollment is 410 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 4.
Hillsborough Township Public School District has 9 schools and 7,191 students, and Woods Road Elementary School is one of those schools.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Woods Road Elementary School is White (47%). Other groups make up 34% Asian, 11% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Woods Road Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 65%.
Its teaching staff equals 39.8 full-time positions, a ratio of 10.3:1. That ratio is under the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Around 10% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The 28% average for public schools in Somerset County is 18 points higher.
allk12 grades Woods Road Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with New Jersey public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
In New Jersey, Woods Road Elementary School is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 77.3% compared with a predicted 60.4%.
Woods Road Elementary School is located in Somerset County, where median household income is about $140,374, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 58%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Woods Road Elementary School is one of 84 public schools in Somerset County, which together enroll about 51,276 students.
The next-closest public school is Amsterdam Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: Woods Road Elementary School ranks 1st of 9 nearby schools, at 77.3% versus a 60.0% average.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 410 was 3% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 421. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.0:1 in 2020-21, and 10.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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
- Amsterdam Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 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
- Amsterdam Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
Other Woods Road Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Woods Road Elementary. Woods Road Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNORTH BABYLON, NY · 355 students
Nearby schools
- Amsterdam Elementary School0.9 mi · 376
- Hillsborough Township Elementary School2.9 mi · 467
- Hillsborough High School3.1 mi · 2,377
- Claremont Elementary School3.4 mi · 685
- Central Jersey College Prep Charter School3.6 mi · 1,396
- Triangle Elementary School3.7 mi · 362
Frequently asked questions
About Woods Road Elementary SchoolHow large is Woods Road Elementary School?
Woods Road Elementary School enrolls approximately 410 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Woods Road Elementary School serve?
Woods Road Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Woods Road Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Woods Road Elementary School is approximately 10.3:1 (40 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Woods Road Elementary School?
Woods Road Elementary School reports a student body of 47% White, 11% Hispanic, 2% Black, 34% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Woods Road Elementary School public or private?
Woods Road 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.