Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy

Set in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy is a moderately sized secondary school, run under Elizabeth Public Schools. It enrolls 1,015 students across grades 9 through 12.

Elizabeth Public Schools comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 27,580 students; Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy is among them.

On demographics, Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%); the rest breaks down as 9% Black, 7% White, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Union County (around 52%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 21.7%; Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy posts 40.0%, +18.4 points above that line.

Around the school, Union County reports that median household earnings sit near $103,202, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy is one of 180 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students).

Dr. Antonia Pantoja School No. 27 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 31.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 1,001 (now 1,015). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 14% to 9%.

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