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Which teacher or staff member at North Arlington High School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
634
High
DISTRICT 331 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH ARLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341143000636
North Arlington High School
222 Ridge Road, North Arlington, NJ 07031 · (201) 991-6800 · Bergen County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL634 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of New Jersey public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
230 students
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 2% |
| Grade 9 | 160 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 162 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 138 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 160 | 25% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within North Arlington School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
55.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . -5.1pp since 2023
Math
32.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.5% | 32.8% |
| 2023-24 | 60.6% | 35.5% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like North Arlington High School
North Arlington High School's state test result (39.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Arlington High School this school | 634 | 36.3% | 39.9% |
| Lyndhurst High School LYNDHURST | 841 | 33.2% | 39.2% |
| Hawthorne High School HAWTHORNE | 569 | 42.5% | 25.0% |
| East Brunswick Magnet School EAST BRUNSWICK | 745 | 36.5% | 34.6% |
| David Brearley Middle/High School Kenilworth | 774 | 33.2% | 28.9% |
| Hopatcong High School Hopatcong | 506 | 35.2% | 17.3% |
Matched among New Jersey high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where North Arlington High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #175 of 397 | #35 of 48 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #171 of 400 ▼ 14 | #34 of 48 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #167 of 395 ▲ 20 | #38 of 48 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 634 | #284 of 442 | #36 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #304 of 388 | #44 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #185 of 389 | #30 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.3% | #208 of 405 | #15 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +28.1% | #25 of 173 | #2 of 16 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
634
+86 (+16%) vs 2020
+31% since 1990-91, when it was 484
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 12.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 634 | 46 | 13.8:1 | 36% (230) |
| 2023-24 | 645 | 48 | 13.4:1 | 25% (160) |
| 2022-23 | 584 | 49.6 | 11.8:1 | 24% (140) |
| 2020-21 | 548 | 44 | 12.4:1 | 23% (126) |
| 2017-18 | 495 | 47 | 10.5:1 | 18% (88) |
| 2015-16 | 482 | 46 | 10.5:1 | 18% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 479 | 39 | 12.3:1 | 18% (84) |
| 2000-01 | 442 | 32 | 13.8:1 | 7% (29) |
| 1990-91 | 484 | 35 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for North Arlington High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 28% (495 to 634); teachers down 2% (47 to 46).
About North Arlington High School
Among the schools in North Arlington, New Jersey, is North Arlington High School, a small high school. The school offers grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 634 students. The school is 32% below the average for high schools in New Jersey.
The district, North Arlington School District, operates 6 schools serving 1,988 students.
Hispanic students are 52% of those enrolled at North Arlington High School. Beyond that, enrollment is 42% White and 3% Asian. In Bergen County overall, about 23% of residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for North Arlington High School is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at North Arlington High School comes to 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.8:1. High schools in New Jersey average 12.7:1, 1.1 fewer students per teacher than here. North Arlington High School counts 36% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Bergen County average 28%.
North Arlington High School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 55% of New Jersey public high schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For North Arlington High School, the prediction is 46.3% and the result is 39.9%.
The school is in Bergen County, where median household income comes to about $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bergen County's 291 public schools enroll about 133,883 students and include North Arlington High School.
About 0.4 miles separate North Arlington High School from the closest public school, George Washington Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 49.0%; North Arlington High School's is 39.9%, ranking 7th of 7.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment rose 16% over 4 years, reaching 634 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.4:1 to 13.8:1 over the same years.
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Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Arlington School District
- Veterans Middle SchoolMiddle · 426 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Susan B. Anthony Elementary SchoolElementary · 297 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 164 students
- Franklin D Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 132 students
Other schools in North Arlington
- Veterans Middle SchoolMiddle · 426 students
- George Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 335 students
- Susan B. Anthony Elementary SchoolElementary · 297 students
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 164 students
- Franklin D Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 132 students
Nearby schools
- George Washington Elementary School0.4 mi · 335
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary School0.5 mi · 164
- Susan B. Anthony Elementary School0.6 mi · 297
- Veterans Middle School0.6 mi · 426
- Franklin D Roosevelt Elementary School0.7 mi · 132
- Hornblower Early Childhood Center0.8 mi · 245
Frequently asked questions
About North Arlington High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at North Arlington High School?
North Arlington High School enrolls approximately 634 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does North Arlington High School serve?
North Arlington High School serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does North Arlington High School have?
North Arlington High School employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at North Arlington High School?
At North Arlington High School, the student body is approximately 42% White, 52% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is North Arlington High School in?
North Arlington High School is part of North Arlington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.