Arts High School

Arts High School is one of the modestly sized secondary schools in NEWARK, New Jersey, part of Newark Public School District, with 611 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 34% smaller than the state mean of about 929.

Newark Public School District comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 41,502 students; Arts High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Arts High School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 45% Black, 5% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Essex County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Arts High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.8%; this one delivers 30.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Essex County) shows that median household income runs about $80,789, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Arts High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Discovery Charter School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Arts High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 30.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arts High School has shrank 11%, going from 685 students in 2018 to 611 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 32% to 48% over that span.

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