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New Jersey schools ranked by test score

Latest NJSLA year (2024-25). 1,803 schools with reported Science scores. State average: 26.8%.
Subject:English Language ArtsMathematicsScience
Order:Highest firstLowest first
Level:AllElementaryMiddleHighCombined
RankSchoolLevelSciencevs state
1801School 21
PATERSON · Paterson Public School District
Elementary0.6%-26.2pp
1802Muhammad Ali School Number 23
Passaic · Passaic City School District
Middle0.5%-26.3pp
1803Grace A Dunn Middle School
TRENTON · Trenton Public School District
Middle0.4%-26.4pp
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About this ranking

Schools are ranked by the percentage of students who scored at or above the NJSLA % Meeting or Exceeding Expectations threshold on the latest available NJSLA Science test (school year 2024-25). A higher percentage is better.

Only public schools with a reasonable cohort size are included (at least 50 total students enrolled, since the source file does not include per-subject student counts), so very small programs and special-purpose centers are filtered out.

The state average shown above is enrollment-weighted: we multiply each school's score by how many of its students tested, sum those across every public school in New Jersey, and divide by the total students tested. This way a big school counts more than a tiny one in the typical-student average.