Bayonne Alternative High School

Bayonne Alternative High School is a high school of very small scale in Bayonne, New Jersey, one of the schools within Bayonne School District, caters to 109 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 88% smaller than the state mean of about 929.

Within Bayonne School District, which oversees 13 schools and 10,325 students, Bayonne Alternative High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bayonne Alternative High School logs that 38% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 30% Black, 26% White, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Hudson County as a whole.

On the resource side, Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

In the surrounding community, Hudson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $91,795 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Bayonne Alternative High School is one.

Bayonne High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bayonne Alternative High School.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.