Essex High School

Set in Fairfield, New Jersey, Essex High School is a micro-enrollment secondary school, one of the schools within Essex Regional Educational Services Commission. It hosts 34 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 96% below typical.

Essex Regional Educational Services Commission comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 86 students; Essex High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Essex High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%); the rest looks like 3% White, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Essex County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Essex County) reports that median household income runs about $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 Essex High School is one.

The closest other public school is Essex Junior Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Essex High School's enrollment has increased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 27 (now 34). Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 44% to 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 5.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Essex High School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.