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Atlantic County Alternative High School

Atlantic Co Vocational · Atlantic County · High school
Grades 9–12
Last reported enrollment in 2019-20 — no longer in the data since.
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

This page does not have enough comparable recent data to summarize more than one measure. Start with enrollment evidence →

Enrollment over time

In its last year on record, 2019-20, it enrolled 47 students across grades 9–12. That is 37 more than in 2012-13 (10) — the school had grown. It peaked at 74 in 2015-16.

students 020406080 471998200320082013201820232025

Total students enrolled each fall. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 2012-13 and 2019-20 was Black students — 40% then, 62% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 734%62%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianTwo or more

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2015-16 and 2019-20 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.

That’s the largest shift among Atlantic County’s 12 high schools. That roughly tracks the district overall (12.2) — a district-wide change more than a school-specific one. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Hispanic +8.4·Black −5.9·Two or more +4.3

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2019-20, 85.1% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 05010085.1%63.4%62.8%201220172019
This schooldistrict overallAtlantic County Institute Of Technology

Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter lines show the district overall and Atlantic County Institute Of Technology, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

Chronic absenteeism

In 2015-16, 26.3% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days.

% chronically absent 0153026.3%2015

Chronic absenteeism — the share of students who missed 10% or more of the days they were enrolled (roughly 18 days across a full school year). Points from 2015-16 and earlier are matched to this school by its state code; New Jersey’s organization record only reaches back to 2020-08-11, so for those years the code is verified and the identity behind it is not. Source: NJ School Performance Reports, 2015-16 through 2024-25.

How the state has judged this school

The waiver record. Annual editions between 2012 and 2016, most recent first. Read each band against itself and not against the others — the state changed what it measured, and how, twice inside those five years.

New Jersey’s ESEA Flexibility waiver ended after the 2016 edition, and the archive bundles for 2017 and 2018 return 404 on every build of the source release. That bounds the waiver record; it says nothing about the ESSA record above, which runs from 2016-17 without a break the state did not itself declare.

2015 – 2016 · participation only, on PARCC

New Jersey set no performance target and published no performance determination in these two editions — not for this school, and not for any school in the state. The tests changed to PARCC and the profiles print five columns where the earlier ones print seven, so what the state judged here is test participation and, below it, graduation and attendance. These two years are comparable with each other. Nothing here is a performance verdict, and the missing column is the state’s decision, not a gap in this record. YES* means something else here than it did through 2014. With no performance column to sit in, it appears in the participation column and marks a group whose participation rate was met with participation averaging applied.

2015 preliminary

New Jersey labelled this edition preliminary, and never published a final one. A dash means the group was below the state’s own minimum size — 40 students for participation, 30 for performance — so nothing was determined for it at all.

What New Jersey determined about Atlantic County Alternative High School in the 2015 edition. There is no performance column because the state published none.
Student groupEnglish Language ArtsMathematics
Participation% meeting standardsParticipation% meeting standards
SchoolwideToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
American IndianToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
AsianToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
BlackToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
Economically DisadvantagedToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
HispanicToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
Limited English ProficiencyToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
Students with DisabilitiesToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
Two or More RacesToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
WhiteToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored

The waiver determinations are what New Jersey printed on this school’s annual ESEA accountability profile, kept exactly as printed and corrected from nothing. Each edition’s glyphs are read against that edition’s own legend, because the same asterisk means different things in different years. Editions this school does not appear in are simply absent here; no year is inferred from its neighbours. Source: NJDOE’s Title I accountability archive, 2012–2016.

How the 2012–2016 waiver record works →

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →