North Plainfield High School

North Plainfield High School is a reasonably sized four-year high school in North Plainfield, New Jersey, one of the schools within North Plainfield School District. The school serves 1,141 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 23% above the state mean of about 929.

North Plainfield School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,487 students. North Plainfield High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, North Plainfield High School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Black, 8% White, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting North Plainfield High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Somerset County's rate of about 28%.

After controlling for student poverty, North Plainfield High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 24.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Somerset County indicate the typical household earns roughly $140,374 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Somerset County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,276 students), of which North Plainfield High School is one.

Stony Brook School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, North Plainfield High School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 14%: 1,000 students in 2018 compared to 1,141 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 63% to 73%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.