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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...
Paterson Public Schools Lost 16 Percent of Enrollment From 2023 to 2026
Paterson Public Schools enrolled 26,067 students in the school year ending in 2023. Three years later, the published district total was 21,849.
South Jersey's Attendance Gap With the North Has Nearly Doubled Since the Pandemic
Cumberland County sits at the bottom of New Jersey's attendance rankings. Its school districts average 18.8% chronic absenteeism in 2023-24, meaning roughly one in five students misses 18 or more scho...
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...
Paterson's Black Students Trail Every Group in Attendance Recovery
At Paterson's School 6, more than half of all students were chronically absent in 2023-24. A reporting investigation found that the school, along with several neighbors, had not filed a corrective act...