At a glance
These measures follow the same rule on every school page, not a ranking of this school’s biggest changes. Each row names its evidence dates; trend rows do not describe every year in between.
Fall enrollment was 112 students in 2024-25 and 110 students in 2025-26 — 2 fewer students.
See enrollment evidence →The four-year graduation rate was 100.0% in 2021-22 and 89.3% in 2024-25 — 10.7 percentage points lower. This profile does not include the cohort count; percentage-point movement can be volatile for smaller graduating cohorts.
See graduation evidence →The chronic-absence rate was 3.3% in 2017-18 and 18.3% in 2024-25 — 15.0 percentage points higher.
See attendance evidence →These are descriptive measures from statewide NJDOE datasets, not a quality rating or an explanation of cause. Proficiency, attendance, and graduation figures use All Students; subgroup patterns may differ.
In 2025-26 it enrolled 110 students across grades 9–12. That is 109 more than in 2015-16 (1) — the school has grown. Its biggest cohort is grade 9.
Students enrolled in each grade each fall, stacked to the total — so the top edge is total enrollment. Bands run from the lowest grade (light) to the highest (dark); a band that appears or disappears is a grade the school added or dropped. “Other” is students with no grade level (mostly special education), so the bands always sum to total. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.
In 2015-16, 100% of students were Asian. By 2025-26 the largest group was Hispanic, at 62%.
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.
Between 2021-22 and 2025-26 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.
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 →
In 2025-26, 61.5% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.
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 the district high schools, for comparison. Years the state did not report are shaded. 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.
On the NJSLA — New Jersey’s state test — here is how students have scored over recent years and by grade. (New Jersey reports student-growth scores only through grade 8, so they are not available for high schools.)
English language arts: 50% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 53%), up from 24.1% in 2021-22.
| School year | Met or exceeded | Valid scores | Test participation | NJ statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 24.1% | 29 | 100.0% | 49.0% |
| 2022-23 | 28.2% | 39 | 100.0% | 51.3% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 25 | 100.0% | 52.2% |
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 34 | 100.0% | 53.0% |
Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →
By grade, year to year
Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.
Math: school-wide results were not published for 2024-25 (state 42%), up from 10.5% in 2021-22.
| School year | Met or exceeded | Valid scores | Test participation | NJ statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 10.5% | 38 | 97.5% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | <10% | 38 | 100.0% | 38.2% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 25 | 100.0% | 40.2% |
| 2024-25 | <10% | 34 | 100.0% | 42.0% |
Source: NJDOE 2024-25 school-detail workbook (330 MB). How this data works →
By grade, year to year
Each panel is one grade — watch its mix of levels shift across 2021–2024.
In each panel the flat line is the proficiency boundary: levels 4–5 (met or exceeded) fill the area above it, levels 1–3 below — so a smaller reported share in levels 4–5 makes the area above the line shrink (it isn’t a misleading upward slope). Light = level 1 (did not yet meet expectations), dark = level 5 (exceeded); the % marks the proficient share at the first and last points. The first set of panels follows each grade across the years; the second lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, not linked individual students. Growth is the median Student Growth Percentile (50 = a typical year), reported only through grade 8. The NJSLA was not given in spring 2020 and was disrupted the next year. Source: NJ School Performance Reports.
In 2024-25, 89.3% of students graduated within four years — down from 100% in 2021-22.
† New Jersey says these years are not comparable with the ones beside them
Graduation assessment requirements were waived for any 12th grade student who was expected to graduate in the class of 2020 but, as of March 18, 2020, had not yet met the graduation assessment requirement. Additionally, the requirement to report on status in meeting annual ESSA targets was waived for 2019-2020. As a result, annual targets and status in meeting those targets are not reported for Cohort 2019 4-year and Cohort 2018 5-year graduation rates (NJDOE uses prior year graduation rates for accountability purposes).NJDOE 2019-20 workbook notes sheet.
Graduation assessment requirements were waived for any 12th grade student who had not yet met the graduation assessment requirements, but had met all credit, curriculum, and attendance requirements for graduation. Additionally, the requirement to report on status in meeting annual ESSA targets was waived for 2020-2021. As a result, annual targets and status in meeting those targets are not reported for Cohort 2020 4-year and Cohort 2019 5-year graduation rates.NJDOE 2020-21 workbook notes sheet.
Four-year graduation rate — the share of a class that finishes within four years of entering ninth grade (New Jersey’s state calculation). The lighter lines show the district overall and New Jersey, for comparison. New Jersey also reports a federal four-year rate (89.3% for 2024-25); the two use slightly different cohort rules. The record runs from 2021-22 to 2024-25, assembled from ten annual workbooks: the current one publishes five graduating classes, and the nine before it publish the rest. The statewide line starts in 2018-19, because that is the first edition in which NJDOE printed a statewide rate beside each school’s own. Source: NJ School Performance Reports, 2015-16 through 2024-25.
In 2024-25, 18.3% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — up from 3.3% in 2017-18.
† New Jersey says these years are not comparable with the ones beside them
The requirement to report status in meeting annual ESSA targets for 2020-2021 was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report state averages and whether state averages were met for 2020-2021. Additionally, because the number of days students spent in in-person and remote learning environments during the school year differed, the NJDOE recommends caution in comparing 2020-2021 attendance data between schools and districts and to prior or future school years.NJDOE 2020-21 workbook notes sheet.
2019-20 is blank because New Jersey collected no attendance data that year, not because nobody was absent. The requirement to report on chronic absenteeism and related accountability measures for the 2019-2020 school year was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report on chronic absenteeism and other attendance data for 2019-2020. Tables showing attendance data will be hidden in the 2019-2020 reports.
NJDOE 2019-20 workbook notes sheet.
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). The lighter lines show the district overall and New Jersey, for comparison. The current workbook publishes four years of this measure; the years before them come from each earlier year’s own workbook, which publish the same figures wherever the two overlap. The statewide line starts in 2021-22, because that is the first edition in which NJDOE printed a statewide rate beside each school’s own. Points from 2018-19 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.
2021-22 – 2024-25 · the ESSA record
New Jersey’s ESSA calculation workbooks carry a row for Mercer County Technical School Culinary Arts Academy, but no summative rating in any of them. What the workbooks did publish about it is below.
This school’s record does not read as one series. New Jersey changed how the rating is built partway through, so it divides into two stretches — 2021-22 to 2023-24 and 2024-25. Years inside one stretch may be compared with each other; across a break there is no fair comparison, and this page draws none. What changed at each break is printed at the break.
| School year | Percentile in group | Summative score | NJDOE’s group | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Not ranked this year | — | High | Not an identification year |
| The calculation changes here. NJDOE reweighted the high-school composite for 2024-25: proficiency fell from 17.5% to 15% in each subject, the five-year graduation rate from 25% to 10%, a six-year rate entered at 10%, and chronic absenteeism fell from 15% to 10%. Nothing above this line can be compared with anything below it. | ||||
| 2023-24 | Not ranked this year | — | High | Not an identification year |
| 2022-23 | Not ranked this year | — | High | No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school |
| 2021-22 | Not ranked this year | — | High | No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school |
Inside 2024-25 · what produced the most recent rating
New Jersey did not publish a summative score for this school for 2024-25. Its row in the calculation workbook is marked N/A - Not an Identification Year, and the score, the percentile and every indicator weight are blank. The indicator results the workbook did publish are below; none of them was scored or ranked.
| Indicator | Result | Indicator score | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELA proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state ELA test | 50% | 53.3 | — | — |
| Math proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state math test | 5.9% | 5.46 | — | — |
| Four-year graduation ratestudents graduating within four years of entering ninth grade | Not published | — | — | — |
| Five-year graduation ratestudents graduating within five years | Not published | — | — | — |
| Six-year graduation ratestudents graduating within six years | Not published | — | — | — |
| High school persistenceNJDOE’s published high school persistence rate | Not published | — | — | — |
| Progress toward English proficiencyNJDOE’s published Progress Toward ELP rate, for English learners | Not published | — | — | — |
| Students not chronically absentstudents who were not chronically absent — 100 minus the chronic-absenteeism rate, so a higher number is better | 81.7% | 28.95 | — | — |
ELA growth, Math growth are not part of the calculation for a school NJDOE groups as High.
NJDOE’s Targeted Summary published no student-group flag for this school for 2026-27.
These are policy-defined values: which indicators count, and how much each counts, is set by New Jersey’s ESSA plan, not by any measure of school quality. The weights are specific to this school — an indicator that drops out shifts weight onto the rest, so the same indicator is worth different points at different schools. The workbooks measure 2024-25 and were published on April 2, 2026; 2024-25 was not a year New Jersey identified schools for comprehensive or targeted support, so these files carry no CSI or ATSI status. These weights are 2024-25’s: the indicator set and the weighting have both moved across the eight editions above, and for some school types they moved in this one. Row 2024_25_Accountability_Workbook_File_Comprehensive_Support_and_Improvement.xlsx#Summative!1085:AU of the workbook, and the method in NJDOE’s accountability technical guide.
Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →
