Dover High School

Dover High School operates as an average-sized 9-12 campus in DOVER, New Jersey, operated by Dover Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,167 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 26% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Dover High School is one of 5 schools operated by Dover Public School District, a district that works with 3,208 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Dover High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder breaks down as 5% White, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Dover High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 20.4%, a residual of -13.3 points.

In the area at large, Morris County reports that median household earnings sit near $137,326, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Dover High School is one campus in the mix.

North Dover Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dover High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dover High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Dover High School's enrollment has climbed 15% since 2018, when it stood at 1,012 (now 1,167).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Dover High School typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.