Best Public Schools in Port Reading, NJ

Summary:

The city of Port Reading, New Jersey has only one public school, the Port Reading Avenue Elementary School, which serves students from kindergarten through 5th grade. The school is part of the Woodbridge Township School District.

Based on the available data, the Port Reading Avenue Elementary School has seen a decline in its statewide ranking over the past three years, going from 899 out of 1,338 elementary schools in 2023-2024 to 845 out of 1,347 in 2024-2025. The school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Mathematics are generally lower than the district and state averages, with some exceptions, such as the 4th-grade ELA proficiency rate being higher than the district and state in 2024-2025. The school's 5th-grade Science proficiency rate is slightly lower than the district and state averages in both 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.

The Port Reading Avenue Elementary School has a relatively high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, at 55.38% in 2023-2024, and a student-teacher ratio of 10.6, which is lower than the typical class size. The school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $4,841.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				NJSLA-S Science (2025)	NJSLA English Language Arts (2025)			NJSLA Mathematics (2025)			Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	NJSLA-S Science 5th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 3rd Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 4th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 5th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 3rd Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 4th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 5th Grade	Total
Port Reading Avenue Elementary School	Public	K-5	Turner Street	Port Reading	07064	Middlesex County	Woodbridge Township School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(732) 602-8409	385	36	10.8	56.6%	91 (23.6%)	29 (7.5%)	193 (50.1%)	64 (16.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	8 (2.1%)	38	845^th of 1347 public elementary schools	37.3%		33.2	899^th of 1338 public elementary schools	32.8%	54	31.0	31.7	53.0	43.9	33.3	38.8	41.4	$4,841

Cities Near Port Reading

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Sewaren	0.54 mi	1	476^th
Woodbridge	1.29 mi	5	396^th
Avenel	1.41 mi	4	420^th
Carteret	1.64 mi	6	442^nd
Iselin	2.47 mi	6	244^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Jersey Department of Education.

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