Lodi High School

Set in LODI, New Jersey, Lodi High School is a middle-of-the-pack senior high, run under Lodi School District. It enrolls 906 students across grades 9 through 12.

Across the 7 schools in Lodi School District (3,082 students total), Lodi High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Lodi High School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 19% White, 10% Black, 6% Asian. By comparison, Bergen County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lodi High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of +4.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Bergen County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,884 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Bergen County runs 291 public schools (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students), of which Lodi High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Columbus School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lodi High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lodi High School's enrollment has grew 7% since 2018, when it stood at 850 (now 906). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 54% to 63%.

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