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What's the biggest difference between Bloomfield High School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
2,055
High
DISTRICT 582 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340183001980
Bloomfield High School
160 Broad Street, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 · (973) 680-8500 · Essex County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,055 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of New Jersey public high schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
159 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
1,033 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 493 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 491 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 523 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 548 | 27% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Bloomfield Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
56.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . -8.2pp since 2023
Math
34.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . +12.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.6% | 34.2% |
| 2023-24 | 64.8% | 22.1% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bloomfield High School
Bloomfield High School's state test result (36.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomfield High School this school | 2,055 | 50.3% | 36.9% |
| Woodbridge High School WOODBRIDGE | 1,681 | 54.3% | 20.4% |
| Franklin High School Somerset | 2,134 | 50.2% | 25.8% |
| North Brunswick Township High School NORTH BRUNSWICK | 1,876 | 54.1% | 27.5% |
| Hamilton West-Watson HAMILTON | 1,408 | 59.7% | 18.6% |
| Hamilton North - Nottingham HAMILTON | 1,147 | 57.0% | 18.5% |
Matched among New Jersey high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bloomfield High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #204 of 397 | #17 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #159 of 400 ▲ 88 | #16 of 39 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.6% | #159 of 395 no change | #19 of 39 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,055 | #32 of 442 | #3 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #243 of 388 | #21 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #77 of 389 | #3 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.3% | #141 of 405 | #26 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.8% | #133 of 173 | #15 of 19 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
2,055
+146 (+8%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 1,501
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 2,055 | 158.6 | 13.0:1 | 50% (1,033) |
| 2023-24 | 2,037 | 163.6 | 12.4:1 | 35% (713) |
| 2022-23 | 2,029 | 168.5 | 12.0:1 | 39% (790) |
| 2020-21 | 1,909 | 171 | 11.2:1 | 39% (754) |
| 2017-18 | 1,979 | 165.5 | 12.0:1 | 44% (869) |
| 2015-16 | 2,016 | 162 | 12.4:1 | 51% (1,019) |
| 2010-11 | 1,824 | 134 | 13.6:1 | 37% (670) |
| 2000-01 | 1,750 | 117 | 15.0:1 | 24% (413) |
| 1990-91 | 1,501 | 108 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bloomfield High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (1,979 to 2,055); teachers down 4% (165.5 to 158.6).
About Bloomfield High School
Bloomfield High School runs as a high-enrollment high school in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Students in grades 9 through 12 attend the school, which enrolls 2,055 students. For comparison, high schools in New Jersey average about 929 students.
Bloomfield Township School District has 6,400 students in 11 schools, and Bloomfield High School is one of those schools.
At Bloomfield High School, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 48%. After that, the student body is 23% Black, 22% White, and 5% Asian. Census figures show Essex County is about 25% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Bloomfield High School's 158.6 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 13.0:1. That matches the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey fairly closely. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 50%.
Measured against New Jersey public high schools, Bloomfield High School receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The model predicts 38.6% for a school in New Jersey with Bloomfield High School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Bloomfield High School posts 36.9%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Essex County show that the median household income is $80,789, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Besides Bloomfield High School, Essex County has 248 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is Central School, about 0.2 miles away. Bloomfield High School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Bloomfield High School's average proficiency of 36.9% compares with 59.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES assigns Bloomfield High School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Bloomfield High School's enrollment climbed from 1,909 in 2020-21 to 2,055 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 13.0:1, from 11.2:1.
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Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bloomfield Township School District
- Bloomfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 944 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Demarest Elementary SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Berkeley Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Oak View Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Carteret Elementary SchoolElementary · 383 students
Other schools in Bloomfield
- Bloomfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 944 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Demarest Elementary SchoolElementary · 482 students
- Berkeley Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Oak View Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Carteret Elementary SchoolElementary · 383 students
Other Bloomfield High schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Bloomfield High. Bloomfield High School is the largest of the 7.
- BLOOMFIELD HIGHBLOOMFIELD, NM · 764 students
- Bloomfield High SchoolBloomfield, CT · 528 students
- BLOOMFIELD HIGH SCHOOLBLOOMFIELD, NY · 238 students
- Bloomfield High SchoolBloomfield, IN · 208 students
- BLOOMFIELD HIGHBLOOMFIELD, MO · 167 students
Nearby schools
- Central School0.2 mi · 127
- Ridgewood Avenue School0.3 mi · 540
- Glen Ridge High School0.5 mi · 799
- Fairview Elementary School0.7 mi · 499
- Linden Avenue School0.8 mi · 153
- Glenfield Middle School0.8 mi · 512
Frequently asked questions
About Bloomfield High SchoolHow many students attend Bloomfield High School?
Bloomfield High School enrolls approximately 2,055 students in grades 09-12.
Is Bloomfield High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bloomfield High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Bloomfield High School have?
Bloomfield High School employs 159 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
How diverse is Bloomfield High School?
Bloomfield High School reports a student body of 22% White, 48% Hispanic, 23% Black, 5% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Bloomfield High School public or private?
Bloomfield High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bloomfield Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.