Cedar Grove High School

Cedar Grove High School is one of the close-knit 9-12 campuss in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, run under Cedar Grove Township School District, with 421 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 929.

Cedar Grove Township School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,547 students. Cedar Grove High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Cedar Grove High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment; the rest consists of 10% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Around 6% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Essex County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cedar Grove High School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 62.6%; Cedar Grove High School posts 42.2%, -20.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Essex County reports 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%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Cedar Grove High School is one.

The closest other public school is Memorial Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cedar Grove High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cedar Grove High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar Grove High School has shrank 19%, going from 519 students in 2018 to 421 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 77% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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