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Newark Early College High School

Newark City · Essex County · High school
Grades 8–12 · was 6–9 in 2012
Last reported enrollment in 2016-17 — no longer in the data since.
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

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.

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.

Enrollment, by grade

In its last year on record, 2016-17, it enrolled 419 students across grades 8–12. That is 192 more than in 2012-13 (227) — the school had grown. It peaked at 469 in 2015-16. Its biggest cohort is grade 11.

students 0125250375500Other121110981998200320082013201820232025

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 2012-13 and 2016-17 was Black students — 71% then, 88% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 711%88%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianNative Am.

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 2012-13 and 2016-17 the makeup of this school changed substantially.

That’s the largest shift among the district’s 18 high schools — larger than 98% of Essex County high schools. The district as a whole shifted just 7.2 over the same years, making this school an outlier. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Black +16.5·Hispanic −11.5·White −5.5

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 2016-17, 64.2% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 05010079.4%69.5%64.2%20122016
This schooldistrict overalldistrict high schools

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.

Graduation rate

In 2016-17, 74.8% of students graduated within four years — down from 76.8% in 2015-16.

% graduating 607590notreported78.5%74.8%201420152016
This schooldistrict overall

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 line shows the district overall, for comparison. Points from 2016-17 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.

Chronic absenteeism

In 2016-17, 67.8% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — up from 39.3% in 2015-16.

% chronically absent 0408067.8%29.7%20152016
This schooldistrict overall

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 line shows the district overall, for comparison. Points from 2016-17 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

2016-17 · the ESSA record

New Jersey has published a summative rating for Newark Early College High School in one school year under ESSA. The rating is a percentile inside a group of schools NJDOE considers comparable — where the school placed among them, not a score and not a grade.

There is one rating here, for 2016-17. One rating is a reading, not a direction.

The long numbers are NJDOE’s own. It rounded the summative score in the 2016-17 preliminary edition, stopped rounding for the 2016-17 final through 2018-19, and rounded again from 2021-22 on. This page prints what each edition printed and shortens nothing.

Every ESSA accountability workbook that carries a row for Newark Early College High School, most recent first, exactly as NJDOE published it.
School yearPercentile in groupSummative scoreNJDOE’s groupIdentification
2016-17 final9.01408450704225414.268179216622698HighNo comprehensive or targeted status published for this school
NJDOE published 2016-17 twice. The preliminary edition below measures the same school year as the final one above it, with seven indicators instead of eight — Progress toward ELP was, in the state’s January 2018 words, “not yet available”. Every one of the 2,105 summative scores moved between the two. It is one year, not two, and the preliminary edition is comparable with nothing.
2016-17 preliminary11.8314.27HighNo comprehensive or targeted status published for this school

How the ESSA record works →

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