Kittatinny Regional High School

Set in NEWTON, New Jersey, Kittatinny Regional High School is a modestly sized 9-12 campus, part of Kittatinny Regional School District. It instructs 733 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Kittatinny Regional School District is the operating authority for Kittatinny Regional High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Kittatinny Regional High School shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Sussex County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Kittatinny Regional High School logs 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.3:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Kittatinny Regional High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.7%; this one comes in at 42.0%, -15.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Sussex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,186 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Sussex County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,579 students), Kittatinny Regional High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Marian E. McKeown Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Kittatinny Regional High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kittatinny Regional High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.1%.

Kittatinny Regional High School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Kittatinny Regional High School's enrollment has ticked down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 986 (now 733). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 94% to 82%.

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