Enrollment
295
High
DISTRICT 204 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONMOUTH COUNTY VOCATIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341750000409
Communications High School
1740 NEW BEDFORD ROAD, WALL, NJ 07719 · (732) 681-1010 · Monmouth County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBCAREER AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL295 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of New Jersey public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
9.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.0:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
2%
7 students
DISTRICT 7% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 74 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 72 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 72 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 77 | 26% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
97.6%
NJ avg 53.1%
Math
81.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . -12.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 98 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Math scores are down about 12 points since 2023.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 97.6% | 81.3% |
| 2023-24 | N/A | 93.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
90.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+25.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Communications High School
Communications High School's state test result (90.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communications High School this school | 295 | 2.4% | 90.1% |
| Marine Academy of Science and Technology Highlands | 276 | 1.1% | 91.0% |
| Cedar Grove High School Cedar Grove | 421 | 6.4% | 42.2% |
| Waldwick High School WALDWICK | 434 | 1.8% | 63.1% |
| Mountain Lakes High School Mountain Lakes | 546 | 2.0% | 66.9% |
| Kinnelon High School KINNELON | 507 | 6.7% | 58.1% |
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 Communications High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Monmouth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.1% | #12 of 397 | #4 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #14 of 400 ▼ 3 | #4 of 31 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 97.6% | #12 of 395 | #3 of 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 295 | #372 of 442 | #28 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #37 of 388 | #5 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.3% | #233 of 389 | #14 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 2.4% | #382 of 405 | #27 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.8% | #106 of 200 | #15 of 24 |
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
295
-11 (-4%) vs 2020
+310% since 2000-01, when it was 72
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 295 | 30 | 9.8:1 | 2% (7) |
| 2023-24 | 299 | 29 | 10.3:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2022-23 | 309 | 31 | 10.0:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2020-21 | 306 | 29 | 10.6:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2017-18 | 320 | 28 | 11.4:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2015-16 | 320 | 28 | 11.4:1 | 3% (9) |
| 2010-11 | 300 | 28 | 10.7:1 | 1% (3) |
| 2000-01 | 72 | N/A | N/A | 11% (8) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Communications High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (320 to 295); teachers up 7% (28 to 30).
About Communications High School
Communications High School is a small high school. Its address is in WALL, New Jersey. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 295 students in grades 9 through 12. Against the 929-student average for high schools in New Jersey, enrollment here is 68% lower.
Monmouth County Vocational School District oversees Communications High School and 7 other schools, with 1,635 students in total.
At 67%, White students outnumber all other groups at Communications High School combined. The school is also 13% Hispanic, 11% Asian, and 6% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Communications High School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 50%.
The school employs the equivalent of 30 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 9.8:1. Among high schools in New Jersey, the typical ratio is 12.7:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 2%. That is lower than the 29% average for public schools in Monmouth County.
Communications High School is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 96% of New Jersey public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Communications High School scores 25.2 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 90.1% actual versus 64.9% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations.
Within Monmouth County, median household income is about $124,845, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 51% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Federal data list 186 public schools in Monmouth County, with a combined enrollment of about 91,053.
Wall High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 90.1% is above the 55.8% average for nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 295 was 4% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 306.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Communications High School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Monmouth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
645,353
Census ACS
Median income
$124,845
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
91,053 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Monmouth County Vocational School District
- Biotechnology High SchoolHigh · 315 students
- Monmouth County Academy of Allied Health and ScienceHigh · 300 students
- High Technology High SchoolHigh · 284 students
- Marine Academy of Science and TechnologyHigh · 276 students
- Monmouth County Vocational Technical High SchoolHigh · 87 students
- Academy of Law & Public SafetyHigh · 73 students
Other schools in WALL
- Wall High SchoolHigh · 924 students
- Wall Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 755 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 494 students
- Allenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 381 students
- West Belmar Elementary SchoolElementary · 171 students
- Wall Primary SchoolElementary · 73 students
Nearby schools
- Wall High School0.1 mi · 924
- Wall Primary School0.4 mi · 73
- Wall Intermediate School1.4 mi · 755
- West Belmar Elementary School1.5 mi · 171
- Central Elementary School1.5 mi · 494
- Spring Lake Heights Elementary School1.7 mi · 292
Frequently asked questions
About Communications High SchoolHow many students attend Communications High School?
Communications High School enrolls approximately 295 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Communications High School serve?
Communications High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Communications High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Communications High School is approximately 9.8:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Communications High School?
Student demographics at Communications High School are roughly 67% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 11% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Communications High School?
Communications High School is overseen by Monmouth County Vocational School District in Monmouth County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.