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Woodstown High School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Woodstown High School
Woodstown High School is one of the intimate 9-12 campuss in WOODSTOWN, New Jersey, one of the schools within Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District, with 550 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 41% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.
Woodstown High School is one of 4 schools operated by Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District, a district that instructs 1,494 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Woodstown High School reports that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial.
On the resource side, The school lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Salem County's rate of about 45%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Woodstown High School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 52.3%; Woodstown High School posts 35.8%, -16.5 points below that line.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Salem County put the typical household earns roughly $79,960 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Woodstown High School is one of 33 public schools in Salem County (combined enrollment of about 11,156 students).
Woodstown Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodstown High School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 47.5%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 550 in 2025.
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Salem County at a glance
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Related schools
- Mary S. Shoemaker SchoolElementary · 528 students
- Woodstown Middle SchoolMiddle · 303 students
- William Roper Early Childhood Learning CenterElementary · 113 students
- Salem County Career and Technical High SchoolHigh · 754 students
- Mary S. Shoemaker SchoolElementary · 528 students
- Woodstown Middle SchoolMiddle · 303 students
- NJ Regional Day - ManningtonCombined · 53 students
- Woodstown Middle School0.0 mi · 303
- Mary S. Shoemaker School0.3 mi · 528
- William Roper Early Childhood Learning Center0.5 mi · 113
- Salem County Career and Technical High School2.8 mi · 754
- NJ Regional Day - Mannington2.9 mi · 53
- South Harrison Elementary School4.0 mi · 345