East Orange Campus High School

East Orange Campus High School is a secondary school of sprawling scale in EAST ORANGE, New Jersey, operated by East Orange School District, hosting 1,798 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 94% above typical.

Across the 19 schools in East Orange School District (8,348 students total), East Orange Campus High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, East Orange Campus High School shows that the largest single group is Black, at 79% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 16% Hispanic, 3% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, East Orange Campus High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.5%; actual is 7.8%, a gap of -53.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Essex County put median household earnings sit near $80,789, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which East Orange Campus High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wahlstrom Early Childhood Academy, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, East Orange Campus High School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Orange Campus High School has edged up 20%, going from 1,499 students in 2018 to 1,798 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 90% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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