Summary:
The Woodcliff Lake School District has one listed elementary school, Dorchester Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 5 with 494 students. In 2025–2026, its average across grades 3–5 was 79% in ELA, compared with 49% statewide, and 75% in math, compared with 47% statewide. It also scored above the state in every reported grade and subject, making its strongest overall finding consistently high results relative to state averages.
Because Dorchester is the only school in the list, there is no school-to-school top or bottom; its grade results show where performance was strongest and where it was comparatively lower. Grade 3 ELA was the highest result at 85%, 36 points above the state, while grade 4 ELA was the lowest ELA result at 71%, still 25 points above the state. In math, grade 5 led at 79% (33 points above the state), and grade 4 was lowest at 73% (27 points above). Grade 5 science was 46%, 19 points above the state. These differences point to grade 4 ELA as the clearest area to watch, not a school-level weakness compared with state results.
Results were mixed over time: the ELA advantage narrowed by 3 points, from 34 points in 2024–2025 to 31 in 2025–2026, while the math advantage was nearly unchanged, moving from 28.3 to 28.0 points. Grade 4 ELA fell 16 points year over year, even as grade 3 ELA rose 10; science fell 6 points, from 52% to 46%. SchoolDigger placed Dorchester at 107 of 1,331 schools in 2025–2026, at the 92nd percentile with 5 stars; it was also at the 92nd percentile in each of the prior two years. Other context includes a 9.4:1 student-teacher ratio and 1% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025.
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