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Public Schools in New Jersey

2,509 schools · 663 districts · 1,349,887 students

56%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in New Jersey

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

North Star Academy Charter School

Newark

6,352 students

TEAM Academy Charter School

Newark

6,096 students

Passaic County Technical Institute

Wayne

3,359 students

Clifton High School

Clifton

3,059 students

Union City High School

Union City

3,025 students

Mastery Schools of Camden Inc.

Camden

2,880 students

South Brunswick High School

Monmouth Junction

2,786 students

Vineland Senior High School

Vineland

2,780 students

Bridgewater-Raritan High School

Bridgewater

2,711 students

Old Bridge High School

Matawan

2,707 students

Frequently Asked Questions

New Jersey has 2,509 public schools across 663 districts, serving 1,349,887 students.

The largest school in New Jersey is North Star Academy Charter School with 6,352 students. New Jersey has 2,509 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 56%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.