The Barack Obama Green Charter School

The Barack Obama Green Charter School is a micro-enrollment senior high in Plainfield, New Jersey, one of the schools within The Barack Obama Green Charter High School District. The school enrolls 358 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so The Barack Obama Green Charter School sits 61% smaller than that benchmark.

The Barack Obama Green Charter School is a school of The Barack Obama Green Charter High School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, The Barack Obama Green Charter School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school shows 26% Black. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, The Barack Obama Green Charter School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting The Barack Obama Green Charter School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Union County's rate of about 52%.

With demographic context factored in, The Barack Obama Green Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 14.2%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Union County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,202 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Union County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 99,046 students), The Barack Obama Green Charter School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Somerset School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Barack Obama Green Charter School. On composite proficiency, The Barack Obama Green Charter School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. The Barack Obama Green Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 47%: 243 students in 2018 compared to 358 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.