Summary:
Zip code 08097 has one listed school, Woodbury Heights Elementary, serving pre-K through grade 6, with 248 students. With no other listed schools, the comparisons here are with New Jersey results, not neighboring schools. The clearest finding is that the school’s 2025–2026 ELA and math averages were above state averages, while its fifth-grade science result was just below the state’s.
Woodbury Heights stands out most in sixth-grade math: 70% of students were proficient, compared with 40.4% statewide, a 30-point advantage. Its ELA results were above the state in all four tested grades; across grades 3–6, the school averaged 62% proficient versus 49% statewide, a 13-point lead. Math was more uneven: the four-grade average was 57% versus 46% statewide, but third grade (48.9% versus 49.2%) and fourth grade (46.6% versus 46.8%) were each less than a point below the state. The weakest comparison was fifth-grade science: 26.6% versus 27.4%, about a point lower. Since this is the only school listed, it is both the highest and lowest locally; there is no meaningful school-to-school ranking or range.
Across the two reported years, the school’s average lead over the state in ELA and math grew from about 8 points in 2024–2025 to about 12 points in 2025–2026, an increase of about 5 points, though results did not rise in every grade. Sixth-grade math rose 17.5 points, while fifth-grade science fell 11.3 points and shifted from above the state in 2024–2025 to just below it in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger ranks the school 455 of 1,331 statewide, at the 66th percentile for 2025–2026, compared with 486 of 1,347 and the 64th percentile the prior year; it gives the Woodbury Heights Public School District three stars and a rank of 237 of 607. In 2024–2025, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 9.3 and 20% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. These figures describe one school and cannot show how its context compares with other local schools.
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