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What's something Henry Snyder High School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
729
High
DISTRICT 765 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JERSEY CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 340783002772
Henry Snyder High School
239 BERGEN AVE, JERSEY CITY, NJ 07305 · (201) 915-6600 · Hudson County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL729 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% of New Jersey public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public high schools
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
84 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
569 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 290 | 40% |
| Grade 10 | 151 | 21% |
| Grade 11 | 128 | 18% |
| Grade 12 | 160 | 22% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
19.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +5.3pp since 2023
Math
3.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 3 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.1% | 3.1% |
| 2023-24 | 13.8% | 1.4% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
11.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Henry Snyder High School
Henry Snyder High School's state test result (11.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Snyder High School this school | 729 | 78.1% | 11.0% |
| Lincoln High School JERSEY CITY | 767 | 75.6% | 11.4% |
| Newark Sch of Data Science and Information Technology Newark | 414 | 79.5% | 33.3% |
| University Academy Charter High School JERSEY CITY | 429 | 80.2% | 17.9% |
| Malcolm X Shabazz High School NEWARK | 531 | 70.4% | 9.3% |
| Central High School NEWARK | 1,051 | 74.5% | 6.3% |
Matched among New Jersey high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Henry Snyder High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.0% | #370 of 397 | #21 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 3.1% | #386 of 400 ▲ 4 | #21 of 21 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.1% | #354 of 395 ▲ 29 | #21 of 21 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 729 | #256 of 442 | #12 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.7:1 | #13 of 388 | #2 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.4% | #202 of 389 | #14 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.1% | #34 of 405 | #4 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.3% | #88 of 200 | #2 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
729
-47 (-6%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 1,319
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
was 12.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 729 | 84 | 8.7:1 | 78% (569) |
| 2023-24 | 747 | 69.1 | 10.8:1 | 59% (444) |
| 2022-23 | 849 | 60 | 14.2:1 | 62% (526) |
| 2020-21 | 776 | 61 | 12.7:1 | 56% (437) |
| 2017-18 | 804 | 67 | 12.0:1 | 71% (571) |
| 2015-16 | 1,041 | 64 | 16.3:1 | 76% (792) |
| 2010-11 | 1,103 | 74 | 14.9:1 | 74% (819) |
| 2000-01 | 1,248 | 92 | 13.6:1 | 42% (530) |
| 1990-91 | 1,319 | 107 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Henry Snyder High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (804 to 729); teachers up 25% (67 to 84).
About Henry Snyder High School
Henry Snyder High School is a small high school in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, administered by Jersey City Public Schools. Enrollment is 729 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 9 through 12. The average for high schools in New Jersey is about 929 students, so this school is 22% smaller than average.
Across its 39 schools, Jersey City Public Schools enrolls 24,151 students. Henry Snyder High School is one of those schools.
Henry Snyder High School's enrollment is 61% Black. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 3% Asian, and 3% White. By comparison, Hudson County residents are about 12% Black. By the diversity index, Henry Snyder High School comes in at 53%.
Henry Snyder High School operates with 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 8.7:1. For comparison, high schools in New Jersey average 12.7:1. About 78% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The rate at public schools in Hudson County averages 68%, lower than here.
Measured against New Jersey public high schools, Henry Snyder High School receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In New Jersey, Henry Snyder High School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 11.0% actual against a predicted 23.4%.
Henry Snyder High School is located in Hudson County, where median household income is about $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 130 public schools in Hudson County, with a combined enrollment of about 86,216.
Nearby, Innovation High School is less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Henry Snyder High School ranks 8th of 9 on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Henry Snyder High School is City: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Henry Snyder High School went from 776 students to 729. The ratio was 12.7:1 in 2020-21 and 8.7:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jersey City Public Schools
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
- Christa McAuliffe SchoolElementary · 906 students
- Franklin L. Williams SchoolMiddle · 906 students
Other schools in JERSEY CITY
- William L Dickinson High SchoolHigh · 1,786 students
- BelovED Community Charter SchoolCombined · 1,573 students
- James J Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,364 students
- Empowerment Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,272 students
- Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · 1,082 students
- Joseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · 926 students
Nearby schools
- Innovation High School0.0 mi · 301
- Academy I0.1 mi · 415
- Gladys Nunery School0.3 mi · 251
- James F. Murray School0.4 mi · 642
- Empowerment Academy Charter School0.4 mi · 1,272
- Chaplain Charles Watters School0.4 mi · 586
Frequently asked questions
About Henry Snyder High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Henry Snyder High School?
Henry Snyder High School enrolls approximately 729 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Henry Snyder High School serve?
Henry Snyder High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Henry Snyder High School?
Approximately 8.7:1 students per teacher at Henry Snyder High School.
What is the student diversity at Henry Snyder High School?
Student demographics at Henry Snyder High School are roughly 3% White, 30% Hispanic, 61% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Henry Snyder High School in?
Henry Snyder High School is part of Jersey City Public Schools.
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