Atlantic City High School

Atlantic City High School is one of the large secondary schools in Atlantic City, New Jersey, part of Atlantic City School District, with 1,731 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 86% larger than the state mean of about 929.

Atlantic City School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,339 students; Atlantic City High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Atlantic City High School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Black, 17% Asian, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 150 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Atlantic County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Atlantic City High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 18.8%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Atlantic County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,050 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Atlantic County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,964 students), of which Atlantic City High School is one.

Chelsea Heights School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Atlantic City High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Atlantic City High School's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,882 (now 1,731). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 14% to 5%.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.