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Essex High School

Essex Regional Educational Services Commission · Essex County · High school
Grades 9–12
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 2025-26 it enrolled 56 students. Enrollment has been roughly steady since 1998-99 (42).

students 015304560 561998200320082013201820232025

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

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 1998-99 and 2025-26 was Black students — 60% then, 79% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 721%79%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsian

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 2021-22 and 2025-26 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.

That’s a larger shift than 63% of Essex County high schools. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Black +9·Hispanic −4.7·Asian −4.3

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). At a school this small, a few students moving can swing the index a lot. 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 2025-26, 82.1% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 05010082.1%72%54.8%1998200320082013201820232025
This schooldistrict overallEssex Campus Academy

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 Essex Campus Academy, 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.

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.

2016 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 Essex High School in the 2016 edition. There is no performance column because the state published none.
Student groupEnglish Language Arts/LiteracyMathematics
Participation% meeting standardsParticipation% meeting standards
SchoolwideToo few students -0%13 scoredToo few students -0%12 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%13 scoredToo few students -0%12 scored
Economically DisadvantagedToo few students -0%10 scoredToo few students -0%9 scored
English Language Learnersrenamed from “Limited English Proficiency” this editionToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
HispanicToo few students -0%0 scoredToo few students -0%0 scored
Students with DisabilitiesToo few students -0%7 scoredToo few students -0%6 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

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2015 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It did not meet it — the page prints NO, Missed.

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 Essex 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%1 scoredToo few students -0%1 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%1 scoredToo few students -0%1 scored
HispanicToo few students -0%1 scoredToo few students -0%1 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

Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2014 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It did not meet it — the page prints NO, Missed.

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 →