Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy

Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy operates as a middle-of-the-pack high school in Elizabeth, New Jersey, one of the schools within Elizabeth Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,272 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 37% larger than typical.

Within Elizabeth Public Schools, which oversees 37 schools and 27,580 students, Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment; the rest looks like 16% Black, 6% White. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Union County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 12.2%, a residual of -9.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Union County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Union County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), of which Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy is one.

The closest other public school is John E. Dwyer Technology Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.

Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. Health & Public Safety Academy operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 10%: 1,155 students in 2018 compared to 1,272 in 2025.

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