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Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood
Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood is a medium-sized high school in ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey, operated by Englewood Public School District. The school works with 1,083 students in grades 9 through 12.
Englewood Public School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,847 students; Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood is among them.
Demographically, Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood reports that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 22% Black, 16% Asian, 8% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bergen County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.5%; this one delivers 32.5%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bergen County put median household income runs about $124,884, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).
Nearest neighbor: Janis E. Dismus Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Five-year trend. Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 1,094 (now 1,083). Hispanic enrollment moved from 39% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for Dwight Morrow High School/Academies@Englewood typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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