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Newark Bridges High School: A Diploma Plus School

Newark City · Essex County · High school
Grades 9–12
Last reported enrollment in 2013-14 — no longer in the data since.
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

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Enrollment, by grade

In its last year on record, 2013-14, it enrolled 141 students across grades 9–12. That is 16 more than in 2011-12 (125) — the school had grown. It peaked at 195 in 2012-13. Its biggest cohort is grade 10.

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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.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 2011-12 and 2013-14 was Black students — 78% then, 87% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 713%87%1998200320082013201820232025
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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 2011-12 and 2013-14 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.

That’s the fourth-largest shift among the district’s 18 high schools — larger than 88% of Essex County high schools. The district as a whole shifted just 2.5 over the same years, making this school an outlier. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Black +8.1·Hispanic −6.5·White −1.6

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 2013-14, 79.4% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 05010084.3%79.4%78.4%20112013
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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. 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.

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