Malcolm X Shabazz High School

Malcolm X Shabazz High School is one of the intimate senior highs in NEWARK, New Jersey, overseen by Newark Public School District, with 531 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Malcolm X Shabazz High School sits 43% leaner than that benchmark.

Newark Public School District runs 65 schools in total, collectively educating 41,502 students. Malcolm X Shabazz High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Malcolm X Shabazz High School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment; the rest consists of 39% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 36% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.2:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Essex County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Malcolm X Shabazz High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 27.6%; this one comes in at 9.3%, -18.3 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Essex County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Malcolm X Shabazz High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Belmont Runyon Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Malcolm X Shabazz High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Malcolm X Shabazz High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 20.0%.

Malcolm X Shabazz High School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Malcolm X Shabazz High School's enrollment has grew 13% since 2018, when it stood at 470 (now 531). The Black share of enrollment fell from 91% to 59% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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