Wenonah Elementary School, Wenonah NJ

Original Research by School Decision on Wenonah Elementary School

Wenonah Elementary School serves students from prekindergarten through sixth grade and is the sole school in the Wenonah Boro School District. For seventh through twelfth grades, students attend Gateway Regional High School, which also draws from neighboring boroughs. The school sits within Wenonah, a small, almost exclusively residential borough in Gloucester County that was founded in the late nineteenth century as a planned country resort. Over half of the borough’s land is conservation area protected from development, and Wenonah is a dry town where alcohol cannot be sold. Its population has been essentially flat for decades, and the built environment consists of older homes on tree-lined streets with no substantial commercial corridor. The school itself is located within the residential fabric of the borough.

Academically, Wenonah Elementary posts results that place it in the top quartile among districts in Gloucester County for overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades. In math, the school shows notably strong performance in grades three through five, where the large majority of students meet state proficiency standards. Grade six math is a clear soft spot: a much smaller share of students reached the proficient level, a drop that a parent may want to discuss with the school to understand the underlying factors. In English language arts, results vary by grade. Third and fourth grade show about half of students proficient, while fifth grade reaches a higher share and sixth grade lands in between. In science, tested only in grade five, roughly three-fifths of students met the state’s proficiency bar. No chronic absenteeism data was reported, and because the school serves only elementary grades, no graduation rate applies.

The student body is small and predominantly white, with small numbers of Hispanic, Asian, Black, and multiracial students. A very small share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, well below typical levels in the county and state. Data on special education identification and English learner status was not available. The school does not appear to report discipline or staffing information in the available data, and no program offerings were listed.

Housing in Wenonah carries a premium relative to national levels but sits below the New Jersey statewide benchmark. The local market shows moderate activity, with listing prices holding steady and homes selling at a fairly quick pace. Given the borough’s conservation protections and minimal developable land, the housing stock is unlikely to grow substantially. The community’s quiet, residential character, with hiking trails and a lake park as central amenities, suits families seeking a small-town setting with limited commercial bustle.

No parent-relevant changes such as budget shifts or curriculum updates were found in the district’s recent record. The school’s academic strengths are concentrated in the early and middle elementary grades, while the grade six math result raises a question worth exploring. For a family considering this school, the overall proficiency picture is strong for most grades, and the peer environment is economically homogeneous and largely white.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 482%

School 82% · District 82%

▲ 37 pts above state median · ▲ 36 pts above county median

Grade 583%

School 83% · District 83%

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 40 pts above county median

Grade 640%

School 40% · District 40%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 54%

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

Grade 450%

School 50% · District 50%

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 74%

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 660%

School 60% · District 60%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Science

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

This schoolWenonah Boro 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.