Glen Ridge High School

As a moderately sized secondary school in GLEN RIDGE, New Jersey, Glen Ridge High School works with 799 students from grades 7 through 12, one of the schools within Glen Ridge Public School District.

Glen Ridge Public School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,746 students; Glen Ridge High School is among them.

Demographically, Glen Ridge High School records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 11% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Around 0% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Glen Ridge High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.0%; this one delivers 66.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Essex County) records that 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%. Glen Ridge High School is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

Ridgewood Avenue 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. On composite proficiency, Glen Ridge High School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.2%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Glen Ridge High School's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 834 (now 799). The Asian share of enrollment edged up from 5% to 11% over that span.

On the community side, the feed for Glen Ridge High School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.