Jersey City
Jersey City Has Drifted Down for a Decade While Newark Has Widened Its Lead
Jersey City Public Schools enrolled 27,464 students in the fall of 2009. In the fall 2025 file, the district enrolled 25,307. The 16-year loss, 2,157 students, is just under 8 percent. The slide is un...
Newark Cut Chronic Absenteeism by More Than Half
In 2018-19, more than one in four Newark students was chronically absent. The district's rate, 26.8%, was 16.2 percentage points above the state average, worse than all but a handful of New Jersey's u...