Soaring Heights Charter School

Soaring Heights Charter School is one of the small K-5 schools in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, overseen by Soaring Heights Charter School, with 272 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 33% smaller than typical.

Soaring Heights Charter School is the operating authority for Soaring Heights Charter School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, Soaring Heights Charter School lists that the most-represented group is Asian (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 26% Black, 16% Hispanic, 14% White, 6% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Hudson County as a whole is about 17% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Soaring Heights Charter School sits in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 35.6%; actual is 72.8%, +37.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hudson County put median household income runs about $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Soaring Heights Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Alexander D. Sullivan School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Soaring Heights Charter School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Soaring Heights Charter School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 32.4%.

Soaring Heights Charter School operates from an inner-city location. Soaring Heights Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 13%: 241 students in 2018 compared to 272 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 46% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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