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What's something Rahway High School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,286
High
DISTRICT 682 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAHWAY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341353005634
Rahway High School
1012 MADISON AVE, RAHWAY, NJ 07065 · (732) 396-1090 · Union County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,286 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of New Jersey public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
13.2:1
98 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
813 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 296 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 339 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 336 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 315 | 24% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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 Rahway Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
28.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . -10.7pp since 2023
Math
2.5%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 3 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.6% | 2.5% |
| 2023-24 | 39.3% | 4.4% |
% 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
17.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Rahway High School
Rahway High School's state test result (17.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rahway High School this school | 1,286 | 63.2% | 17.3% |
| Neptune High School NEPTUNE | 1,129 | 66.2% | 15.1% |
| Science Park High School NEWARK | 964 | 68.0% | 78.2% |
| Linden High School Linden | 1,934 | 67.5% | 21.0% |
| Hamilton North - Nottingham HAMILTON | 1,147 | 57.0% | 18.5% |
| Orange High School ORANGE | 1,368 | 64.8% | 16.0% |
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 Rahway High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.3% | #338 of 397 | #24 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 2.5% | #389 of 400 ▼ 20 | #30 of 31 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #315 of 395 ▼ 6 | #26 of 31 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,286 | #108 of 442 | #7 of 39 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #256 of 388 | #10 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.9% | #115 of 389 | #8 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.2% | #96 of 405 | #15 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.0% | #47 of 173 | #6 of 24 |
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
1,286
+162 (+14%) vs 2020
+43% since 1990-91, when it was 900
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 1,286 | 97.6 | 13.2:1 | 63% (813) |
| 2023-24 | 1,270 | 103.1 | 12.3:1 | 57% (727) |
| 2022-23 | 1,204 | 100.1 | 12.0:1 | 47% (565) |
| 2020-21 | 1,124 | 101 | 11.1:1 | 54% (612) |
| 2017-18 | 1,090 | 105.6 | 10.3:1 | 57% (622) |
| 2015-16 | 1,073 | 99 | 10.8:1 | 50% (534) |
| 2010-11 | 1,096 | 84 | 13.1:1 | 48% (522) |
| 2000-01 | 990 | 81 | 12.2:1 | 35% (347) |
| 1990-91 | 900 | 78 | 11.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rahway High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (1,090 to 1,286); teachers down 8% (105.6 to 97.6).
About Rahway High School
Rahway High School is a medium-sized high school in RAHWAY, New Jersey. A total of 1,286 students attend the school, which covers grades 9 through 12. The average for high schools in New Jersey is about 929 students, so this school is 38% bigger than average.
Rahway High School sits within Rahway Public School District, which has 6 schools and 4,090 students.
Rahway High School's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 48%. Smaller groups are 35% Black, 11% White, and 3% multiracial. County-wide, 35% of Union County residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Rahway High School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
Rahway High School's 97.6 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 13.2:1. High schools in New Jersey have a similar average ratio of 12.7:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 63%. The rate at public schools in Union County averages 52%, lower than here.
Measured against New Jersey public high schools, Rahway High School receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Rahway High School is 14.3 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (17.3% versus 31.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Jersey.
Rahway High School is located in Union County, where median household income is about $103,202, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 180 public schools in Union County, with a combined enrollment of about 99,046.
The school nearest to Rahway High School is Madison Elementary School, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of Rahway High School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Rahway High School is 9th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
The NCES locale for Rahway High School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Rahway High School had 1,124 students in 2020-21 and 1,286 in 2024-25, a 14% rise. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.1:1 in 2020-21 to 13.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rahway Public School District
- Rahway 7th & 8th Grade AcademyMiddle · 701 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 608 students
- Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
Other schools in RAHWAY
- Rahway 7th & 8th Grade AcademyMiddle · 701 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 608 students
- Grover Cleveland Elementary SchoolElementary · 453 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolElementary · 384 students
Nearby schools
- Madison Elementary School0.1 mi · 384
- Rahway 7th & 8th Grade Academy0.3 mi · 701
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.5 mi · 608
- Franklin Elementary School0.8 mi · 658
- Carl H. Kumpf School1.1 mi · 528
- Valley Road School1.1 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About Rahway High SchoolHow many students attend Rahway High School?
Rahway High School enrolls approximately 1,286 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Rahway High School serve?
Rahway High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does Rahway High School have?
Rahway High School employs 98 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Rahway High School?
At Rahway High School, the student body is approximately 11% White, 48% Hispanic, 35% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Rahway High School in?
Rahway High School is part of Rahway Public School District.
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