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Roselle Park High School
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsBeatsExpectations
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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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