Newark
New Jersey's White and Hispanic Enrollment Shares Are 1.3 Points Apart
New Jersey's two largest racial and ethnic enrollment groups are now separated by 1.3 percentage points. In 2025-26, white students made up 36.5% of statewide public school enrollment and Hispanic stu...
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...