NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Woodstown, NJ

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5 public K-12 schools in Woodstown from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
2,188
Students
52/100
Avg Resource Index
11.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Woodstown has more public-school enrollment than 15% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Woodstown lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

2 of the 5 listed Woodstown schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Woodstown lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 53 to 754 students, a 14-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 85%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
91st percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

Salem County Career and Technical High School accounts for 34.5% of all Woodstown public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Woodstown-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Woodstown school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Woodstown school enrollment ranges from 53 students (lowest) to 754 students (highest), a spread of 701 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Woodstown student-teacher ratio is 11.2:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Woodstown Middle School 58
2. Woodstown High School 57
3. Salem Campus 57
4. Salem County Career and Technical High School 48
5. Mary S. Shoemaker School 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Woodstown

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Salem Campus 67.9/100
  2. 2 Mary S. Shoemaker School 48.0/100
  3. 3 Woodstown Middle School 46.9/100
  4. 4 Salem County Career and Technical High School 40.6/100
  5. 5 Woodstown High School 38.3/100

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Which Woodstown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Woodstown Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Woodstown schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Woodstown, NJ? ▼

Woodstown has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,188 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.2:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.