Newark
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...
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...