Newark Vocational High School

Newark Vocational High School operates as a low-enrollment four-year high school in NEWARK, New Jersey, operated by Newark Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 591 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 36% leaner than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Newark Vocational High School is one of 65 schools operated by Newark Public School District, a district that caters to 41,502 students overall.

On demographics, Newark Vocational High School logs that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 43% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, On paper, Newark Vocational High School has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Essex County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Newark Vocational High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.7%, the actual is 17.5%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Newark Vocational High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: New Horizons Community Charter School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Newark Vocational High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Newark Vocational High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 18.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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