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If you could change one rule at Hopatcong High School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
506
High
DISTRICT 361 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOPATCONG BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340744005362
Hopatcong High School
2A Windsor Ave, Hopatcong, NJ 07843 · (973) 398-8803 · Sussex County
GRADES 08–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL506 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of New Jersey public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
11.6:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
178 students
DISTRICT 38% · 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 8 | 105 | 21% |
| Grade 9 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 10 | 115 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 102 | 20% |
| Grade 12 | 106 | 21% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Hopatcong Borough School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
22.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . -6.3pp since 2023
Math
17.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.6% | 17.4% |
| 2023-24 | 28.9% | 12.3% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-29.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Hopatcong High School
Hopatcong High School's state test result (17.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopatcong High School this school | 506 | 35.2% | 17.3% |
| Newton High School NEWTON | 680 | 29.3% | 31.2% |
| Boonton High School BOONTON | 646 | 32.5% | 47.4% |
| David Brearley Middle/High School Kenilworth | 774 | 33.2% | 28.9% |
| Butler High School BUTLER | 482 | 27.8% | 47.9% |
| Hawthorne High School HAWTHORNE | 569 | 42.5% | 25.0% |
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 Hopatcong High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Sussex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.3% | #337 of 397 | #9 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.4% | #272 of 400 ▲ 43 | #8 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #340 of 395 ▲ 9 | #9 of 9 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 506 | #321 of 442 | #9 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #152 of 388 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #171 of 389 | #2 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.2% | #215 of 405 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.7% | #50 of 173 | N/A |
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
506
+7 (+1%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 687
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 9.8:1
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 | 506 | 43.5 | 11.6:1 | 35% (178) |
| 2023-24 | 520 | 44.5 | 11.7:1 | 29% (150) |
| 2022-23 | 520 | 45 | 11.6:1 | 25% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 499 | 51 | 9.8:1 | 28% (140) |
| 2017-18 | 430 | 45.3 | 9.5:1 | 29% (125) |
| 2015-16 | 518 | 48 | 10.8:1 | 30% (157) |
| 2010-11 | 715 | 43 | 16.6:1 | 23% (161) |
| 2000-01 | 744 | 54 | 13.8:1 | 10% (77) |
| 1990-91 | 687 | 45 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hopatcong High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (430 to 506); teachers down 4% (45.3 to 43.5).
About Hopatcong High School
Hopatcong High School is a small high school in Hopatcong, New Jersey. It reported 506 students in grades 8 through 12 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 929 students for high schools in New Jersey.
Hopatcong Borough School District includes 4 schools. Together they enroll 1,442 students.
White students are 54% of those enrolled at Hopatcong High School. Next come 37% Hispanic and 6% Black. That compares with about 82% White among all Sussex County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
Teacher count: 43.5 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 11.6:1. Compared with the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 35%. The average for public schools in Sussex County is 23%.
Among New Jersey public high schools, Hopatcong High School outscored 6%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in New Jersey with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 46.9%. Hopatcong High School posts 17.3%, 29.6 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
For the population of Sussex County, median household income comes to about $116,186, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Sussex County counts 46 public schools with about 19,579 students.
Tulsa Trail Elementary School sits about 0.1 miles from Hopatcong High School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Hopatcong High School places 8th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (499) and 2024-25 (506). The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 9.8:1 to 11.6:1.
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Sussex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
145,807
Census ACS
Median income
$116,186
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
19,579 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hopatcong Borough School District
- Hopatcong Middle SchoolMiddle · 435 students
- Durban Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 286 students
- Tulsa Trail Elementary SchoolElementary · 215 students
Other schools in Hopatcong
- Hopatcong Middle SchoolMiddle · 435 students
- Durban Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 286 students
- Tulsa Trail Elementary SchoolElementary · 215 students
Nearby schools
- Tulsa Trail Elementary School0.1 mi · 215
- Durban Avenue Elementary School0.3 mi · 286
- Hopatcong Middle School0.4 mi · 435
- Nixon Elementary School1.1 mi · 261
- Lenape Valley Regional High School1.5 mi · 667
- Byram Lakes Elementary School1.8 mi · 443
Frequently asked questions
About Hopatcong High SchoolHow large is Hopatcong High School?
Hopatcong High School enrolls approximately 506 students in grades 08-12.
What age range does Hopatcong High School serve?
Hopatcong High School serves students from grade 08 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Hopatcong High School?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at Hopatcong High School.
How diverse is Hopatcong High School?
Hopatcong High School reports a student body of 54% White, 37% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Hopatcong High School public or private?
Hopatcong High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hopatcong Borough School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.