Academy Charter High School

Academy Charter High School is a high school of rural-scale scale in LAKE COMO, New Jersey, run under Academy Charter High School, hosting 166 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Academy Charter High School sits 82% smaller than that benchmark.

Academy Charter High School is the operating authority for Academy Charter High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Academy Charter High School reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 34% Black, 3% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Monmouth County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Academy Charter High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.0%; this one delivers 13.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Monmouth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Monmouth County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), of which Academy Charter High School is one.

West Belmar Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Academy Charter High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 65.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting. As a public charter, Academy Charter High School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Academy Charter High School has contracted 3%, going from 171 students in 2018 to 166 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 74% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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