Schools · Newark
Newark, NJ schools
Newark’s public schools score well below New Jersey’s averages: 26% of students are proficient in reading against 47.3% statewide, and 81% of high schoolers graduate on time against 91.1%. Kids attend one of 43 schools through grade 8, then one of 39 high schools and one of 17 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
D
Newark’s School Grade: D
The public schools Newark’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 93% of New Jersey’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
DTest scoresDGraduation
New Jersey school districts we grade (645)Better than 7%
Lower resultsHigher results
New Jersey towns with similar household incomes (60)Better than 23%
High confidence. Built on 18,049 tested students and a graduating class of 2,694; 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 Newark 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, Newark City)26%
State average 47.3%
Math (grades PK–12, Newark City)9%
State average 25.4%
Graduation · class of 2020
81% graduate on time
Graduation rate
81%
NJ: 91.1%
Graduating class
2,694
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #367 of 384 NJ towns →
Districts
The district serving Newark
Newark City School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 64 schools · 40,426 students
$29,694 per studentNJ $28,441DEach district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 94 schools in Newark
Showing 1–30 of 94 schools
Ann Street SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,294 students
CPublicLafayette Street SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 1,213 students
C-PublicFirst Avenue SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 1,084 students
C+PublicOliver Street SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 1,034 students
CPublicWilson Avenue SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,006 students
C-PublicMcKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 917 students
C-PublicMt Vernon Place SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 905 students
C-PublicElliott Street Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 880 students
DPublicSouth Street Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 866 students
C-PublicEast Ward Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–7 · 854 students
D-PublicAbington Avenue SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 842 students
DPublicThirteenth Avenue SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 833 students
DPublicLUIS MUNOZ MARIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · Grades PK–8 · 818 students
D-PublicLouise A. Spencer Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 774 students
DPublicPark Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 747 students
C-PublicRoberto Clemente Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 742 students
DPublicGeorge Washington Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 736 students
D-PublicPhilip's Academy Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 730 students
C+CharterFranklin Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 725 students
DPublicRafael Hernandez SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 713 students
D-PublicQuitman Street SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 706 students
DPublicRobert Treat Academy Charter SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 702 students
BCharterDr. William H. Horton Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 690 students
D-PublicCamden Street Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 685 students
DPublicHawkins Street SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 660 students
DPublicPeshine Avenue SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 635 students
DPublicChancellor Avenue SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 607 students
DPublicRidge Street SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 593 students
C-PublicMaria Varisco Rogers Charter SchoolElementary · Grades K–8 · 572 students
C+CharterDr. E. Alma Flagg SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 570 students
DPublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.