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The most racially diverse public high schools in Essex County, New Jersey

37 public high schools in Essex County, New Jersey appear in this ranking of the most racially diverse public high schools, ranked by the diversity index, the chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups. West Orange High School leads the list at 69.2%, against a median of 48.5% across the ranked schools.

The table below is sortable and filterable, and the full list downloads as a CSV. Figures come from federal NCES enrollment data and, where applicable, state assessment results for 2024-25.

Schools ranked

Essex County, New Jersey

Top Diversity index

69.2%

Median Diversity index

48.5%

MOST DIVERSE · ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

#	School	City	Students	Diversity index	% White	% Black	% Hispanic	% Asian
1	West Orange High School	WEST ORANGE, NJ	2,106	69.2%	14.9%(314)	37.8%(795)	36.9%(776)	4.2%(89)
2	Montclair High School	MONTCLAIR, NJ	1,925	67.8%	48.6%(935)	22.6%(434)	15.8%(305)	5.0%(97)
3	Bloomfield High School	Bloomfield, NJ	2,055	66.6%	21.8%(448)	22.9%(470)	48.1%(988)	5.3%(109)
4	Columbia High School	MAPLEWOOD, NJ	1,985	63.5%	51.5%(1,022)	28.5%(566)	8.6%(171)	3.7%(73)
5	Millburn High School	MILLBURN, NJ	1,380	62.3%	43.5%(601)	3.0%(41)	5.1%(70)	42.5%(586)
6	Nutley High School	NUTLEY, NJ	1,222	61.7%	51.0%(623)	3.4%(42)	33.5%(410)	9.7%(118)
7	Livingston High School	LIVINGSTON, NJ	2,081	60.7%	49.5%(1,030)	4.8%(101)	4.9%(102)	37.6%(783)
8	Science Park High School	NEWARK, NJ	964	60.2%	8.6%(83)	34.4%(332)	52.1%(502)	2.8%(27)
9	Arts High School	NEWARK, NJ	611	56.8%	4.8%(29)	44.8%(274)	47.8%(292)	0.2%(1)
10	Essex County West Caldwell Tech	West Caldwell, NJ	353	54.5%	4.0%(14)	37.7%(133)	55.8%(197)	1.7%(6)
11	Newark Vocational High School	NEWARK, NJ	591	53.9%	1.9%(11)	43.5%(257)	52.1%(308)	0.5%(3)
12	Newark Sch of Data Science and Information Technology	Newark, NJ	414	53.8%	3.6%(15)	61.4%(254)	28.7%(119)	2.4%(10)
13	American History High School	NEWARK, NJ	386	53.6%	1.3%(5)	51.0%(197)	45.1%(174)	1.0%(4)
14	Essex County Donald M. Payne Sr. School of Technology	NEWARK, NJ	1,230	53.2%	1.9%(23)	51.6%(635)	44.5%(547)	1.1%(14)
15	Central High School	NEWARK, NJ	1,051	52.6%	0.8%(8)	52.7%(554)	44.2%(465)	0.8%(8)
16	Essex County Newark Tech	Newark, NJ	606	51.3%	1.5%(9)	39.3%(238)	57.3%(347)	0.7%(4)
17	Orange High School	ORANGE, NJ	1,368	50.7%	0.1%(2)	48.3%(661)	51.0%(697)	0.1%(1)
18	Malcolm X Shabazz High School	NEWARK, NJ	531	49.7%	0.8%(4)	59.1%(314)	39.2%(208)	0.0%(0)
19	Newark School of Fashion & Design	Newark, NJ	275	48.5%	0.7%(2)	32.4%(89)	64.0%(176)	0.0%(0)
20	Bard Early College High School	NEWARK, NJ	395	47.8%	0.5%(2)	65.1%(257)	31.4%(124)	1.0%(4)
21	Glen Ridge High School	GLEN RIDGE, NJ	799	45.2%	72.6%(580)	3.5%(28)	7.9%(63)	10.9%(87)
22	Belleville High School	BELLEVILLE, NJ	1,590	44.3%	9.2%(146)	8.4%(133)	73.2%(1,164)	7.5%(120)
23	Irvington High School	IRVINGTON, NJ	1,913	42.7%	0.2%(4)	69.6%(1,332)	29.6%(567)	0.2%(4)
24	Technology High School	NEWARK, NJ	662	40.8%	9.1%(60)	13.3%(88)	75.2%(498)	2.0%(13)
25	Cedar Grove High School	Cedar Grove, NJ	421	39.4%	76.7%(323)	3.6%(15)	10.4%(44)	7.1%(30)
26	James Caldwell High School	WEST CALDWELL, NJ	749	38.6%	76.6%(574)	2.4%(18)	15.3%(115)	4.7%(35)
27	University High School	NEWARK, NJ	426	36.3%	0.7%(3)	77.0%(328)	20.9%(89)	0.9%(4)
28	Verona High School	VERONA, NJ	593	35.4%	79.3%(470)	2.0%(12)	11.5%(68)	3.7%(22)
29	West Essex High School	NORTH CALDWELL, NJ	1,061	35.2%	79.5%(844)	2.4%(25)	9.5%(101)	6.4%(68)
30	East Side High School	NEWARK, NJ	2,046	34.9%	16.0%(327)	4.5%(93)	79.0%(1,616)	0.3%(6)
31	East Orange Campus High School	EAST ORANGE, NJ	1,798	34.3%	2.8%(50)	79.4%(1,427)	16.1%(289)	0.2%(3)
32	West Side High School	Newark, NJ	541	31.9%	0.4%(2)	80.6%(436)	17.7%(96)	0.4%(2)
33	Newark School of Global Studies	Newark, NJ	377	29.7%	1.1%(4)	15.1%(57)	82.5%(311)	0.5%(2)
34	Weequahic High School	NEWARK, NJ	592	26.3%	0.8%(5)	85.0%(503)	12.2%(72)	0.0%(0)
35	Barringer High School	NEWARK, NJ	1,894	25.3%	0.6%(12)	12.8%(243)	85.5%(1,619)	0.3%(6)
36	Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School	EAST ORANGE, NJ	701	25.0%	0.6%(4)	85.5%(599)	13.3%(93)	0.3%(2)
37	East Orange STEM Academy High School	EAST ORANGE, NJ	646	22.1%	0.5%(3)	87.6%(566)	10.4%(67)	0.1%(1)

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