Essex County Newark Tech

Essex County Newark Tech, a low-enrollment high school in Newark, New Jersey, one of the schools within Essex County Schools of Technology, instructs 606 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Essex County Newark Tech sits 35% below that benchmark.

Essex County Schools of Technology comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 2,189 students; Essex County Newark Tech is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Essex County Newark Tech records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder comes out to 39% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Essex County Newark Tech records 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at Essex County Newark Tech qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Essex County Newark Tech tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate median household earnings sit near $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Essex County Newark Tech is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

Science Park High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Essex County Newark Tech at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.0%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Essex County Newark Tech's enrollment has ticked down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 771 (now 606). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 54% to 39%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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