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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Dr Ronald McNair High School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
716
High
DISTRICT 765 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340783002778
Dr Ronald McNair High School
123 COLES STREET, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07302 · (201) 418-7617 · Hudson County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL716 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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.
- A+Beats 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
13.1:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
252 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 | 172 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 186 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 186 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 172 | 24% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
99.4%
NJ avg 53.1%
Math
85.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 99 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Math scores are up about 2 points since 2023.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 99.4% | 85.4% |
| 2023-24 | N/A | 83.2% |
% 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
89.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+42.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% 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 43 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 Dr Ronald McNair High School
Dr Ronald McNair High School's state test result (89.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Ronald McNair High School this school | 716 | 35.2% | 89.5% |
| Leonia High School Leonia | 802 | 28.6% | 53.4% |
| Fort Lee High School FORT LEE | 1,170 | 28.4% | 51.9% |
| Parsippany High School Parsippany | 900 | 26.0% | 48.8% |
| John F. Kennedy Memorial High School ISELIN | 1,405 | 46.8% | 40.6% |
| Parsippany Hills High School Morris Plains | 1,035 | 18.7% | 56.3% |
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 Dr Ronald McNair High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.5% | #13 of 397 | #2 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.4% | #12 of 400 ▲ 5 | #2 of 21 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 99.4% | #8 of 395 | #2 of 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 716 | #262 of 442 | #13 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #250 of 388 | #12 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.0% | #17 of 389 | #3 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.2% | #214 of 405 | #22 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.8% | #124 of 173 | #9 of 12 |
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
716
+3 (+0%) vs 2020
+83% since 1990-91, when it was 391
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 716 | 54.5 | 13.1:1 | 35% (252) |
| 2023-24 | 698 | 45.1 | 15.5:1 | 34% (237) |
| 2022-23 | 701 | 52 | 13.5:1 | 34% (239) |
| 2020-21 | 713 | 51 | 14.0:1 | 42% (301) |
| 2017-18 | 683 | 44 | 15.5:1 | 52% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 710 | 52 | 13.7:1 | 50% (353) |
| 2010-11 | 694 | 43 | 16.1:1 | 44% (308) |
| 2000-01 | 502 | 33 | 15.2:1 | 37% (185) |
| 1990-91 | 391 | 27 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dr Ronald McNair High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (683 to 716); teachers up 24% (44 to 54.5).
About Dr Ronald McNair High School
Dr Ronald McNair High School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a high school in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey. It teaches 716 students in grades 9 through 12. It has 23% fewer students than the average for high schools in New Jersey (about 929).
Jersey City Public Schools has a total of 39 schools and 24,151 students, Dr Ronald McNair High School among them.
At Dr Ronald McNair High School, Asian students make up the biggest share, 43%. Other groups include 21% White, 16% Hispanic, 14% Black, and 5% multiracial. By comparison, Hudson County residents are about 17% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 72, compared with 70 nationally.
A staff of 54.5 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 13.1:1. That is in line with the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey. By family income, 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Hudson County, the average eligibility rate is 68%.
On the allk12 Grade, Dr Ronald McNair High School lands at A+, ahead of 98% of New Jersey public high schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Dr Ronald McNair High School is 46.9%. It actually posts 89.5%, which is 42.6 points higher and in the top 10% of New Jersey schools.
In Hudson County, the median household earns about $91,795 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Hudson County has 130 public schools with about 86,216 students, including Dr Ronald McNair High School.
Measured in a straight line, Rafael Cordero y Molina is about 0.2 miles from Dr Ronald McNair High School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 89.5% average proficiency ranks 1st among 9 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Dr Ronald McNair High School the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's size has been steady, with 713 students in 2020-21 and 716 in 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Dr Ronald McNair High School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jersey City Public Schools
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
- Christa McAuliffe SchoolElementary · 906 students
- Franklin L. Williams SchoolMiddle · 906 students
Other schools in JERSEY CITY
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- BelovED Community Charter SchoolCombined · 1,573 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Empowerment Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,272 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
Nearby schools
- Rafael Cordero y Molina0.2 mi · 794
- Dr. Michael Conti School0.3 mi · 651
- Explore Middle School0.4 mi · 163
- William L Dickinson High School0.4 mi · 1,786
- James J Ferris High School0.5 mi · 1,364
- Middle School # 40.7 mi · 755
Frequently asked questions
About Dr Ronald McNair High SchoolHow large is Dr Ronald McNair High School?
Dr Ronald McNair High School enrolls approximately 716 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Dr Ronald McNair High School serve?
Dr Ronald McNair High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dr Ronald McNair High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dr Ronald McNair High School is approximately 13.1:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Dr Ronald McNair High School?
At Dr Ronald McNair High School, the student body is approximately 21% White, 16% Hispanic, 14% Black, 43% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Dr Ronald McNair High School public or private?
Dr Ronald McNair High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jersey City Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.