Cranford High School

Cranford High School is one of the mid-tier secondary schools in CRANFORD, New Jersey, operated by Cranford Public School District, with 1,116 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 20% bigger than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Cranford Public School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,773 students; Cranford High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Cranford High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 12% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Cranford High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 2% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Union County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cranford High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.6%.

In the area at large, Union County reports that median household earnings sit near $103,202, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Union County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), Cranford High School is one campus in the mix.

Brookside Place School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cranford High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 67.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cranford High School's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,221 (now 1,116). The White share of enrollment shrank from 85% to 79% over that span.

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