Schools · Jersey
Jersey, NJ schools
Jersey’s public schools score well below New Jersey’s averages: 38% of students are proficient in reading against 47.3% statewide, and 77% of high schoolers graduate on time against 91.1%. Kids attend one of 26 schools through grade 8, then one of 19 high schools and one of 8 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
D
Jersey’s School Grade: D
The public schools Jersey’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 90% of New Jersey’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
CTest scoresD-Graduation
New Jersey school districts we grade (645)Better than 10%
Lower resultsHigher results
New Jersey towns with similar household incomes (428)Better than 4%
High confidence. Built on 12,413 tested students and a graduating class of 1,676; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on New Jersey’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of New Jersey only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in New Jersey with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Jersey kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Jersey City)38%
State average 47.3%
Math (grades PK–12, Jersey City)16%
State average 25.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
77% graduate on time
Graduation rate
77%
NJ: 91.1%
Graduating class
1,676
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #376 of 384 NJ towns →
Districts
The district serving Jersey
Jersey City School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 39 schools · 24,151 students
$29,234 per studentNJ $28,441DEach district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 73 schools in Jersey
Showing 1–30 of 73 schools
Cornelia F. Bradford SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,082 students
A+PublicJoseph H. Brensinger SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 926 students
C-PublicChrista McAuliffe SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 906 students
CPublicMahatma K. Gandhi SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 821 students
C-PublicRafael Cordero y MolinaElementary · Grades PK–8 · 794 students
C+PublicMartin Luther King Jr. SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 752 students
CPublicCharles E. Trefurt SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 668 students
C-PublicJersey City Golden Door Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 662 students
BCharterDr. Michael Conti SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 651 students
B-PublicJames F. Murray SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 642 students
CPublicAlexander D. Sullivan SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 638 students
DPublicLearning Community Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 634 students
B+CharterAlfred Zampella SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 629 students
C+PublicWhitney M. Young Jr. SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 623 students
D-PublicJotham W. Wakeman SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 617 students
B+PublicRev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 613 students
DPublicDr. Maya Angelou Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 607 students
DPublicFrank R Conwell SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 605 students
CPublicChaplain Charles Watters SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 586 students
DPublicJersey City Community Charter SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 561 students
C-CharterPatricia M. Noonan School PS #26Elementary · Grades PK–5 · 539 students
C+PublicNicolaus Copernicus SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 497 students
BPublicJulia A. Barnes SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 433 students
CPublicPresident Barack Obama Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 425 students
DPublicJersey City Global Charter SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 423 students
B+CharterDr Lena Edwards Academic Charter SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 383 students
C-CharterMartin Center for the ArtsElementary · Grades PK–8 · 359 students
DPublicThe Ethical Community Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 357 students
B-CharterOllie Culbreth Jr. SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 335 students
DPublicDr. Charles P. DeFuccio SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 320 students
DPublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.