Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School
Scotch Plains, NJ · High School · Grades 9-12
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School is a high school in Scotch Plains, NJ with 1,510 students enrolled and a 69% proficiency rate. Part of Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School is a high school located in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. The school serves 1,510 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 69% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 93% graduation rate.
4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School is part of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District in New Jersey.
How This School Compares
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School has 1,510 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District (695 students). Its 69% proficiency rate is 1 percentage points above the district average of 68%. Compared to the New Jersey state average of 56%, the school performs 13 points higher. With a 13.1:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School has 1,510 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1.
According to EDFacts data, 69% of students at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School has a 93% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School is part of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.