Woodland School, Warren NJ - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Woodland School

Woodland School is a regular public elementary school in the Warren Township School District, serving kindergarten through fifth grade. It is one of four K–5 schools in the district, and students move on to Warren Middle School for grades 6–8 before attending Watchung Hills Regional High School, a regional facility that also serves neighboring communities.

The school sits in Warren Township, a high-income bedroom suburb of New York City set on the Second Watchung Mountain ridge. Large-lot single-family homes dominate the landscape, and the township has no traditional downtown or walkable commercial district. Residents use automobiles for errands and commuting; the insurance company Chubb is headquartered within the township, but the broader economic pattern is residential. Housing costs are among the highest in New Jersey, and the community’s median household income is very high. A relatively small share of students at Woodland qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the area’s affluence.

The district recently made a significant curriculum change: beginning in the 2023–24 school year, it shifted from balanced literacy to a structured literacy approach for K–5 reading and writing. Full implementation in 2024–25 uses Wilson Fundations for phonics, Wilson Geodes for decodable texts, and Into Reading for complex text access, aligning with New Jersey’s structured literacy law. This is a district-wide shift that affects how reading is taught at Woodland and the other elementary schools.

Woodland’s enrollment is modest for an elementary school serving five grades. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Hispanic, Asian, Black, and multiracial students. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those populations and the supports offered.

On state assessments administered through the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment, Woodland’s results vary by grade and subject. In both math and English language arts, third graders posted very strong proficiency rates. Fourth graders, however, showed a noticeable dip, with proficiency rates lower than the other tested grades. Fifth graders recovered in ELA to a solid level and in math to a level close to the fourth-grade result. In fifth-grade science, about half of students met proficiency. The overall picture is one of unevenness by grade, with the highest proficiency in early elementary and a softer spot in fourth grade that a parent may wish to explore with the school.

Compared to other districts in Somerset County, the school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint. That places it in the upper half of the county’s school districts, though not at the very top. No chronic absenteeism or graduation rate data is available for this school because it serves only grades K–5, so those measures do not apply.

The data does not include information on course offerings, staffing ratios, discipline, or attendance patterns. Parents considering the school may want to ask about class sizes, enrichment opportunities, and how the structured literacy curriculum is being implemented in each grade. The school’s website likely has additional details about programs and parent involvement.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 382%

School 82% · District 79% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 455%

School 55% · District 73% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 73% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▲ 16 pts above state median · even with county median

English language arts

Grade 385%

School 85% · District 69% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 69% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 571%

School 71% · District 69% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Science

Grade 551%

School 51% · District 56% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

This schoolWarren Township School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.