Empowerment Academy Charter School

Empowerment Academy Charter School is one of the mid-tier combined-grade schools in Jersey City, New Jersey, part of Empowerment Academy Charter School, with 1,272 students on its rolls from grades K through 10. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 934 students each, so Empowerment Academy Charter School sits 36% above that benchmark.

Empowerment Academy Charter School sits inside Empowerment Academy Charter School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Empowerment Academy Charter School reports that the most-represented group is Black (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 14% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Empowerment Academy Charter School reports 105 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at Empowerment Academy Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Empowerment Academy Charter School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.6%; this one delivers 36.1%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hudson County put median household earnings sit near $91,795, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Empowerment Academy Charter School is one.

The closest other public school is Chaplain Charles Watters School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Empowerment Academy Charter School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 27.5%.

Empowerment Academy Charter School operates from a high-density location. Empowerment Academy 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. Empowerment Academy Charter School's enrollment has edged up 178% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 1,272). Over the same period, the Asian share shrank from 28% to 18%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.