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Roselle Park High School
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Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Roselle Park High School
Roselle Park High School, an intimate high school in ROSELLE PARK, New Jersey, run under Roselle Park Public School District, works with 593 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Roselle Park High School sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.
Roselle Park Public School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,007 students; Roselle Park High School is among them.
Demographically, Roselle Park High School logs that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 25% White, 8% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Roselle Park High School lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, Roselle Park High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.4%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of -3.6 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Union County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,202, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Union County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), of which Roselle Park High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Robert Gordon Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roselle Park High School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Roselle Park High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 33.8%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 602 students in 2018 compared to 593 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 51% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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