Wood-Ridge School District

Wood-Ridge School District has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12, with 1,289 students across the area. Attendance is a concern at Wood-Ridge Junior/Senior High School: 17% of students were chronically absent in 2024–25, compared with 5% at Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School and 6% at Wood-Ridge Intermediate School; the state rate was 14%. Academically, Doyle is the clearest standout in the district’s current results.

Doyle was above the state in all four reported Grade 3–4 comparisons in 2025–26, including Grade 3 ELA by 33 percentage points and math by 26. Across its tested grades, its average gaps from the state were 24 points in ELA and 21 in math. Intermediate also performed above the state on average, by 11 points in ELA and 15 in math, with a 20-point advantage in Grade 6 math; its Grade 5 ELA advantage was just 5 points. The high school’s average gaps were smaller—5 points in ELA and 4 in math—and individual results were mixed: Grade 8 ELA was 11 points above the state, while Grade 9 ELA and Grade 11 NJGPA math were each 5 points below. Because the schools serve different grade bands, these are not direct same-grade comparisons between schools.

Across matched grades, the average advantage over state results narrowed slightly from 2024–25 to 2025–26: from 14 to 12 points in ELA and from 14 to 13 in math. The biggest exception was Intermediate Grade 5 ELA, which fell from 82% proficient to 57%, as its advantage over the state dropped from 30 points to 5. SchoolDigger rated Doyle 4 stars and placed it at the 83rd percentile in 2025–26, down from 5 stars and the 94th percentile the prior year; the high school was rated 2 stars and the 48th percentile. Student-teacher ratios were similar, from 11.9 to 12.3. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 20% at Intermediate, 17% at Doyle and 27% at the high school; these figures provide context, not an explanation for results.