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Enrollment
625
High
DISTRICT 1,886 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341638003074
Jose Marti STEM Academy
1800 SUMMIT AVE, UNION CITY, NJ 07087 · (201) 348-5400 · Hudson County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL625 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of New Jersey public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
11.4:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
465 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 178 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 163 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 136 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 148 | 24% |
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · 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
97.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
73.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 98 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 97.7% | 73.4% |
| 2023-24 | 95.7% | 70.8% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+47.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 25% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 48 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 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 Jose Marti STEM Academy
Jose Marti STEM Academy's state test result (73.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jose Marti STEM Academy this school | 625 | 74.4% | 73.2% |
| Achievers Early College Prep Charter School Trenton | 543 | 78.3% | 28.3% |
| Bound Brook High School Bound Brook | 579 | 83.6% | 19.9% |
| Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy Elizabeth | 1,015 | 81.3% | 40.0% |
| Technology High School NEWARK | 662 | 80.4% | 61.9% |
| K. Johnson D. Vaughan and M. Jackson STEM Academy Elizabeth | 740 | 77.8% | 28.2% |
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 Jose Marti STEM Academy ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.2% | #28 of 397 | #3 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #27 of 400 ▲ 9 | #3 of 21 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 97.7% | #11 of 395 ▲ 6 | #3 of 21 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 625 | #286 of 442 | #15 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #136 of 388 | #7 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.8% | #383 of 389 | #18 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.4% | #49 of 405 | #7 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.3% | #197 of 200 | #8 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
625
-63 (-9%) vs 2020
+8% since 2010-11, when it was 580
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 625 | 55 | 11.4:1 | 74% (465) |
| 2023-24 | 588 | 58 | 10.1:1 | 74% (433) |
| 2022-23 | 664 | 55 | 12.1:1 | 76% (506) |
| 2020-21 | 688 | 56 | 12.3:1 | 46% (318) |
| 2017-18 | 627 | 60 | 10.4:1 | 94% (587) |
| 2015-16 | 694 | 52 | 13.3:1 | 95% (656) |
| 2010-11 | 580 | 37 | 15.7:1 | 93% (540) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jose Marti STEM Academy.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (627 to 625); teachers down 8% (60 to 55).
About Jose Marti STEM Academy
Jose Marti STEM Academy is a small high school found in UNION CITY, New Jersey. A total of 625 students attend the school, which covers grades 9 through 12. Against the 929-student average for high schools in New Jersey, enrollment here is 33% lower.
Union City School District (14 schools, 11,519 students) runs Jose Marti STEM Academy.
Jose Marti STEM Academy's enrollment is 92% Hispanic. It is also 4% White and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Hudson County is roughly 41% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 15% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.4:1, with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 1.3 students per teacher below the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 74% of enrollment.
Jose Marti STEM Academy is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 95% of New Jersey public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 25.4% for Jose Marti STEM Academy, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 73.2%. The 47.8-point gap ranks in the top 10% of New Jersey schools.
County data help place the school in context: in Hudson County, the median household income is $91,795, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. In all, Hudson County has 130 public schools and roughly 86,216 students.
The closest public school, Sara M. Gilmore Academy, is about 0.2 miles from Jose Marti STEM Academy. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Jose Marti STEM Academy ranks 2nd of 8 on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 625, a 9% decrease from 688 in 2020-21.
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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 Union City School District
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
Other schools in UNION CITY
- Union City High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Emerson Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Robert Waters Elementary SchoolElementary · 983 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 871 students
- Union Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
Nearby schools
- Sara M. Gilmore Academy0.2 mi · 400
- Veterans' Memorial Elementary School0.2 mi · 502
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education0.2 mi · 300
- Emerson Middle School0.3 mi · 999
- Colin Powell Elementary School0.3 mi · 692
- Union City High School0.4 mi · 3,147
Frequently asked questions
About Jose Marti STEM AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Jose Marti STEM Academy?
Jose Marti STEM Academy enrolls approximately 625 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Jose Marti STEM Academy serve?
Jose Marti STEM Academy serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jose Marti STEM Academy?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jose Marti STEM Academy is approximately 11.4:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jose Marti STEM Academy?
At Jose Marti STEM Academy, the student body is approximately 4% White, 92% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian.
Who oversees Jose Marti STEM Academy?
Jose Marti STEM Academy is overseen by Union City School District in Hudson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.