Nutley High School

Located at 300 FRANKLIN AVE, in NUTLEY, New Jersey, Nutley High School is a moderately sized high school that caters to 1,222 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Nutley Public School District. Compared to the state average of about 929 students per school, that is 32% above typical.

Nutley Public School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,299 students; Nutley High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Nutley High School logs that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 15% of students at Nutley High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Essex County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Nutley High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Essex County) reports that median household earnings sit near $80,789, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Nutley High School is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

John H. Walker Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nutley High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 51.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nutley High School has held roughly steady, going from 1,218 students in 2018 to 1,222 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 66% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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