New Brunswick High School

New Brunswick High School is a secondary school of large scale in NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, overseen by New Brunswick School District, caters to 2,443 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 163% above the state mean of about 929.

New Brunswick School District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 8,337 students; New Brunswick High School is among them.

On demographics, New Brunswick High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). Other groups include 6% Black. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 173 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting New Brunswick High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at New Brunswick High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Middlesex County (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Brunswick High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 17.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 15.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Middlesex County) reports that median household income runs about $111,549, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. New Brunswick High School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

Mckinley Community School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, New Brunswick High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Brunswick High School has ticked up 14%, going from 2,147 students in 2018 to 2,443 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 87% to 93%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the New Brunswick High School community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.