Lester D. Wilson Elementary School

Alexandria Township · Hunterdon County · Elementary school

Grades PK–3 · was K–4 in 1998

Last reported enrollment in 2022-23 — no longer in the data since.

Page updated August 3, 2026 · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

These measures follow the same rule on every school page, not a ranking of this school’s biggest changes. Each row names its evidence dates; trend rows do not describe every year in between.

EnrollmentFall 2021-22 to 2022-23
Fall enrollment was 187 students in 2021-22 and 191 students in 2022-23 — 4 more students.
See enrollment evidence →
AttendanceSchool years 2015-16 to 2022-23
The chronic-absence rate was 4.2% in 2015-16 and 19.9% in 2022-23 — 15.7 percentage points higher.
See attendance evidence →

These are descriptive measures from statewide NJDOE datasets, not a quality rating or an explanation of cause. Proficiency, attendance, and graduation figures use All Students; subgroup patterns may differ.

Enrollment, by grade

In its last year on record, 2022-23, it enrolled 191 students across grades PK–3. That is 161 fewer than in 1998-99 (352) — the school had shrunk. It peaked at 354 in 2000-01. Its biggest cohort is grade 2.

Students enrolled in each grade each fall, stacked to the total — so the top edge is total enrollment. Bands run from the lowest grade (light) to the highest (dark); a band that appears or disappears is a grade the school added or dropped. “Other” is students with no grade level (mostly special education), so the bands always sum to total. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 1998-99 and 2022-23 was White students — 98% then, 86% now.

WhiteBlackHispanicAsianTwo or more

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2018-19 and 2022-23 the makeup of this school barely moved.

5.4

Shift index

That’s a smaller shift than 85% of Hunterdon County elementary schools. The biggest moves, in percentage points:

Two or more +3.8·Asian −3.5·Black +1.6

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2022-23, 5.2% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

This schooldistrict overall

Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter line shows the district overall, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

Chronic absenteeism

In 2022-23, 19.9% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — up from 4.2% in 2015-16.

This schooldistrict overall

† New Jersey says these years are not comparable with the ones beside them

2020-21 — in-person and remote days differed. The requirement to report status in meeting annual ESSA targets for 2020-2021 was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report state averages and whether state averages were met for 2020-2021. Additionally, because the number of days students spent in in-person and remote learning environments during the school year differed, the NJDOE recommends caution in comparing 2020-2021 attendance data between schools and districts and to prior or future school years. NJDOE 2020-21 workbook notes sheet.

2019-20 is blank because New Jersey collected no attendance data that year, not because nobody was absent. The requirement to report on chronic absenteeism and related accountability measures for the 2019-2020 school year was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report on chronic absenteeism and other attendance data for 2019-2020. Tables showing attendance data will be hidden in the 2019-2020 reports. NJDOE 2019-20 workbook notes sheet.

Chronic absenteeism — the share of students who missed 10% or more of the days they were enrolled (roughly 18 days across a full school year). The lighter line shows the district overall, for comparison. The current workbook publishes four years of this measure; the years before them come from each earlier year’s own workbook, which publish the same figures wherever the two overlap. Points from 2018-19 and earlier are matched to this school by its state code; New Jersey’s organization record only reaches back to 2020-08-11, so for those years the code is verified and the identity behind it is not. Source: NJ School Performance Reports, 2015-16 through 2024-25.

How the state has judged this school

2021-22 – 2022-23 · the ESSA record

New Jersey has published a summative rating for Lester D. Wilson Elementary School in one school year under ESSA. The rating is a percentile inside a group of schools NJDOE considers comparable — where the school placed among them, not a score and not a grade.

There is one rating here, for 2021-22. One rating is a reading, not a direction.

Every ESSA accountability workbook that carries a row for Lester D. Wilson Elementary School, most recent first, exactly as NJDOE published it.
School year	Percentile in group	Summative score	NJDOE’s group	Identification
2022-23	Not ranked this year	—	Elementary	No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school
2021-22	11.91	23.29	Elementary	No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school

Everything below this line is a different instrument. Above, one weighted number and a rank inside a group of similar schools, under ESSA. Below, a pass-or-fail determination the state made about each student group, on tests that no longer exist, under a federal waiver that has since ended. The two regimes meet without a gap — 2015-16 is the last waiver year and 2016-17 the first ESSA one — and there is still no fair comparison between them, so this page does not draw one.

The waiver record. Annual editions between 2012 and 2016, most recent first. Read each band against itself and not against the others — the state changed what it measured, and how, twice inside those five years.

New Jersey’s ESEA Flexibility waiver ended after the 2016 edition, and the archive bundles for 2017 and 2018 return 404 on every build of the source release. That bounds the waiver record; it says nothing about the ESSA record above, which runs from 2016-17 without a break the state did not itself declare.

2015 – 2016 · participation only, on PARCC

New Jersey set no performance target and published no performance determination in these two editions — not for this school, and not for any school in the state. The tests changed to PARCC and the profiles print five columns where the earlier ones print seven, so what the state judged here is test participation and, below it, graduation and attendance. These two years are comparable with each other. Nothing here is a performance verdict, and the missing column is the state’s decision, not a gap in this record. YES* means something else here than it did through 2014. With no performance column to sit in, it appears in the participation column and marks a group whose participation rate was met with participation averaging applied.

2016 preliminary

New Jersey labelled this edition preliminary, and never published a final one. A dash means the group was below the state’s own minimum size — 40 students for participation, 30 for performance — so nothing was determined for it at all.

What New Jersey determined about Lester D. Wilson Elementary School in the 2016 edition. There is no performance column because the state published none.
Student group	English Language Arts/Literacy		Mathematics
Student group	Participation	% meeting standards	Participation	% meeting standards
Schoolwide	Met YES	64.2%53 scored	Met YES	56.6%53 scored
American Indian	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students -	0%0 scored
Asian	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students -	0%0 scored
Black	Too few students -	0%1 scored	Too few students -	0%1 scored
Economically Disadvantaged	Too few students -	0%2 scored	Too few students -	0%2 scored
English Language Learnersrenamed from “Limited English Proficiency” this edition	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students -	0%0 scored
Hispanic	Too few students -	50%4 scored	Too few students -	25%4 scored
Students with Disabilities	Too few students -	14.3%7 scored	Too few students -	28.6%7 scored
Two or More Races	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students -	0%0 scored
White	Met YES	66.7%48 scored	Met YES	60.4%48 scored

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2015 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.

2015 preliminary

What New Jersey determined about Lester D. Wilson Elementary School in the 2015 edition. There is no performance column because the state published none.
Student group	English Language Arts		Mathematics
Student group	Participation	% meeting standards	Participation	% meeting standards
Schoolwide	Met, with participation averaging applied YES*	55.6%36 scored	Met, with participation averaging applied YES*	44.5%36 scored
American Indian	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students -	0%0 scored
Asian	Too few students -	60%5 scored	Too few students -	60%5 scored
Black	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students -	0%0 scored
Economically Disadvantaged	Too few students -	0%2 scored	Too few students -	0%2 scored
Hispanic	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students -	0%0 scored
Limited English Proficiency	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students -	0%0 scored
Students with Disabilities	Too few students -	50%8 scored	Too few students -	37.5%8 scored
Two or More Races	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students -	0%0 scored
White	Too few students -	54.8%31 scored	Too few students -	41.9%31 scored

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2014 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.

The regime changes here. Above this line the state judged participation alone; below it, participation and performance against an individually set target, on a different test. A determination on one side of this line cannot be compared with one on the other, so nothing on this page draws a line through it.

2012 – 2014 · progress targets, on NJASK and HSPA

Each group large enough to score was measured against a progress target set for it individually, on NJASK and HSPA. These three years are comparable with each other. Most cells are empty by design — a group below the state’s minimum size got no determination at all. YES* never means the target was met. In these editions it marks a group that missed the printed target and was credited inside a 95% confidence interval, and it appears in the performance column.

2014 unmarked

This edition asserts nothing about whether it is preliminary or final, so neither does this page. A dash means the group was below the state’s own minimum size — 40 students for participation, 30 for performance — so nothing was determined for it at all.

What New Jersey determined about Lester D. Wilson Elementary School in the 2014 edition, group by group and subject by subject, exactly as it printed it.
Student group	English Language Arts			Mathematics
Student group	Participation	% proficient	Performance	Participation	% proficient	Performance
Schoolwide	Met YES	81.8%55 scored	Met its target YEStarget 63.3	Met YES	90.9%55 scored	At or above the statewide 90% goal MET GOALtarget 78.6
American Indian	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Asian	Too few students -	100%3 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	100%3 scored	Too few students to determine -
Black	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Economically Disadvantaged	Too few students -	100%1 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	100%1 scored	Too few students to determine -
Hispanic	Too few students -	100%3 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	66.6%3 scored	Too few students to determine -
Limited English Proficiency	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Students with Disabilities	Too few students -	44.4%9 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	77.7%9 scored	Too few students to determine -
Two or More Races	Too few students -	0%1 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%1 scored	Too few students to determine -
White	Met YES	81.3%48 scored	Met its target YEStarget 62.6	Met YES	93.8%48 scored	At or above the statewide 90% goal MET GOALtarget 78.9

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2013 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.

2013 final

New Jersey labelled this edition final. A dash means the group was below the state’s own minimum size — 40 students for participation, 30 for performance — so nothing was determined for it at all.

What New Jersey determined about Lester D. Wilson Elementary School in the 2013 edition, group by group and subject by subject, exactly as it printed it.
Student group	English Language Arts			Mathematics
Student group	Participation	% proficient	Performance	Participation	% proficient	Performance
Schoolwide	Met YES	55.3%47 scored	Missed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 59.2	Met YES	78.7%47 scored	Met its target YEStarget 76.2
American Indian	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Asian	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Black	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Economically Disadvantaged	Too few students -	0%2 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%2 scored	Too few students to determine -
Hispanic	Too few students -	33.3%3 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	100%3 scored	Too few students to determine -
Limited English Proficiency	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Students with Disabilities	Too few students -	20%5 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	40%5 scored	Too few students to determine -
Two or More Races	Too few students -	100%1 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	100%1 scored	Too few students to determine -
White	Met YES	55.8%43 scored	Missed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 58.4	Met YES	76.7%43 scored	Met its target YEStarget 76.5

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2012 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.

2012 preliminary

What New Jersey determined about Lester D. Wilson Elementary School in the 2012 edition, group by group and subject by subject, exactly as it printed it.
Student group	Language Arts Literacy			Mathematics
Student group	Participation	% proficient	Performance	Participation	% proficient	Performance
Schoolwide	Met YES	90.5%42 scored	At or above the statewide 90% goal MET GOALtarget 55.1	Met YES	90.5%42 scored	At or above the statewide 90% goal MET GOALtarget 73.8
American Indian	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Asian	Too few students -	50%2 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	100%2 scored	Too few students to determine -
Black	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Economically Disadvantaged	Too few students -	0%1 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%1 scored	Too few students to determine -
Hispanic	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Limited English Proficiency	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	0%0 scored	Too few students to determine -
Students with Disabilities	Too few students -	83.4%6 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	66.7%6 scored	Too few students to determine -
Two or More Races	Too few students -	75%4 scored	Too few students to determine -	Too few students -	100%4 scored	Too few students to determine -
White	Too few students -	94.5%36 scored	At or above the statewide 90% goal MET GOALtarget 54.2	Too few students -	88.9%36 scored	Met its target YEStarget 74.1

The waiver determinations are what New Jersey printed on this school’s annual ESEA accountability profile, kept exactly as printed and corrected from nothing. Each edition’s glyphs are read against that edition’s own legend, because the same asterisk means different things in different years. Editions this school does not appear in are simply absent here; no year is inferred from its neighbours. Source: NJDOE’s Title I accountability archive, 2012–2016.

How the ESSA record works → · How the 2012–2016 waiver record works →

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →