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 368 students in 2024-25 and 400 students in 2025-26 — 32 more students.
See enrollment evidence →School-wide ELA proficiency was 20.3% in 2021-22 and 27.4% in 2024-25 — 7.1 percentage points higher.
See test-score evidence →The chronic-absence rate was 28.9% in 2015-16 and 26.6% in 2024-25 — 2.3 percentage points lower.
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 400 students. That is 130 fewer than in 1998-99 (530) — the school has shrunk. It peaked at 556 in 2001-02.
Total students enrolled each fall. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.
The largest group in both 1998-99 and 2025-26 was Black students — 93% then, 59% now.
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 changed substantially.
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, 92.2% 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 K–8 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.
Growth measures how much students progressed over the year against peers who scored the same the year before — 50 is a typical year. In 2024-25, this school’s median growth percentile was 55 in English and 59 in math — NJ calls this “typical” growth.
English language arts: 27.4% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 53%), up from 20.3% in 2021-22.
| School year | Met or exceeded | Valid scores | Test participation | NJ statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 20.3% | 246 | 98.8% | 49.0% |
| 2022-23 | 31.9% | 213 | 97.4% | 51.3% |
| 2023-24 | 27.4% | 175 | 97.4% | 52.2% |
| 2024-25 | 27.4% | 186 | 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.
By grade cohort, lined up across years
Each panel lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, but does not track individual students; enrollment can change.
Math: 20.4% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 42%), up from 16.1% in 2022-23.
| School year | Met or exceeded | Valid scores | Test participation | NJ statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | <10% | 246 | 98.8% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | 16.1% | 211 | 96.9% | 38.2% |
| 2023-24 | 21.0% | 181 | 97.0% | 40.2% |
| 2024-25 | 20.4% | 186 | 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.
By grade cohort, lined up across years
Each panel lines up aggregate grade results one grade higher each year. It approximates a class cohort, but does not track individual students; enrollment can change.
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, 26.6% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — down from 28.9% in 2015-16.
† 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.
2016-17 – 2024-25 · the ESSA record
New Jersey has published a summative rating for South 17th Street School in seven school years 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.
NJDOE weighted the indicators the same way for elementary and middle schools in every one of these editions, 2016-17 to 2024-25, so these seven ratings may be read as one line.
Higher is further up: the line is the share of similar New Jersey schools this school placed above, in each year NJDOE ranked it. The axis runs the full 0 to 100 because a percentile’s whole range is real. This is a position, not a level. Every number NJDOE puts into the rating is itself a ranking against that year’s other schools — each indicator score is a percentile before it is weighted — so a year in which every school in the state improved would look exactly like a year in which none did. What the line can show is where this school sat among its contemporaries; what it cannot show is whether the contemporaries moved. The summative score behind each point is in the table below. Where the line stops and starts again, the state changed the calculation and the two stretches are not comparable; where the panel is shaded, nothing was calculated at all.
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.
| School year | Percentile in group | Summative score | NJDOE’s group | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.26 | 40.83 | Elementary | Not an identification year |
| 2023-24 | 27.48 | 36.75 | Elementary | Not an identification year |
| 2022-23 | 51.17 | 51.9 | Elementary | No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school |
| 2021-22 | 35.55 | 41.34 | Elementary | No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school |
| 2020-21 | No summative rating was calculated for any school in New Jersey. | |||
| 2019-20 | No summative rating was calculated for any school in New Jersey. | |||
| 2018-19 | 0.8328375966686495 | 5.870228741379164 | ES/MS | Not an identification year |
| 2017-18 final | 1.8364928909952605 | 8.316943134285518 | ES/MS | Comprehensive |
| 2016-17 final | 2.5294117647058822 | 11.287393595775262 | ES/MS | Comprehensive |
| 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 preliminary | 3.18 | 11.29 | Elementary | Comprehensive |
2019-20 and 2020-21 · nothing was calculated
These are not years missing from this record. The federal government waived New Jersey’s ESSA accountability requirements for both of them, and no summative rating exists for any school in the state. In NJDOE’s own words:
due to the COVID-19 pandemic, New Jersey was approved for both a March 2020 waiver and a March 2021 waiver that removed accountability-related requirements under ESSA for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years, respectively. The waived requirements included the: Calculation of indicator scores and summative scores; Measurement of progress toward long-term goals and measures of interim progress for accountability indicators; and Identification of schools for comprehensive and targeted support and improvement based on data from these two school years.
2021-2022 Technical Guide to ESSA Summative Ratings and the Identification of Schools in Need of Support and Improvement, NJDOE April 2023, page 3
Inside 2024-25 · what produced the most recent rating
For 2024-25 New Jersey weighted five indicators to add to 100 and gave this school 40.83 of those 100 points. It then ranked that total against the 1,659 New Jersey schools it grouped as Elementary for the year, which puts this school above 34.26% of them. That ranking is a place in a line-up of similar schools, not a grade and not a status.
Each bar’s light track is the points that indicator was worth at this school; the filled part is the points it earned. NJDOE converts each result into a 0–100 indicator score — built from the standardised results of each student group large enough to report, not from the school-wide number alone — then multiplies that score by the weight. The tracks add to 100 and the filled bars add to the summative score, within the publisher’s own rounding.
| Indicator | Result | Indicator score | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELA proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state ELA test | 27.4% | 11.96 | 17.5% | 2.09 |
| Math proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state math test | 20.4% | 12.58 | 17.5% | 2.20 |
| ELA growththe school’s median student growth percentile in ELA | 55 | 71.27 | 25% | 17.82 |
| Math growththe school’s median student growth percentile in math | 59 | 70.64 | 25% | 17.66 |
| 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 | 73.4% | 7.08 | 15% | 1.06 |
NJDOE published no result for Progress toward English proficiency. Below the state’s minimum group size nothing is reported at all, and an indicator with no result carries no weight — the remaining indicators were rescaled to add to 100 without it. Four-year graduation rate, Five-year graduation rate, Six-year graduation rate, High school persistence are not part of the calculation for a school NJDOE groups as Elementary.
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!767:AU of the workbook, and the method in NJDOE’s accountability technical guide.
Everything below this line is a different instrument. Above, one weighted number and a rank inside a group of similar schools, under ESSA. Below, a pass-or-fail determination the state made about each student group, on tests that no longer exist, under a federal waiver that has since ended. The two regimes meet without a gap — 2015-16 is the last waiver year and 2016-17 the first ESSA one — and there is still no fair comparison between them, so this page does not draw one.
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.
| Student group | English Language Arts/Literacy | Mathematics | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participation | % meeting standards | Participation | % meeting standards | |
| Schoolwide | Met YES | 15.9%296 scored | Met YES | 8.8%294 scored |
| American Indian | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students - | 0%0 scored |
| Asian | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students - | 0%0 scored |
| Black | Met YES | 13.8%254 scored | Met YES | 8.3%252 scored |
| Economically Disadvantaged | Met YES | 15.2%277 scored | Met YES | 8%275 scored |
| English Language Learnersrenamed from “Limited English Proficiency” this edition | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students - | 0%0 scored |
| Hispanic | Met YES | 30.8%39 scored | Met YES | 12.8%39 scored |
| Students with Disabilities | Met YES | 2.6%114 scored | Met YES | 2.7%112 scored |
| Two or More Races | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students - | 0%0 scored |
| White | Too few students - | 0%3 scored | Too few students - | 0%3 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 met it — the page prints YES, Met.
| Student group | English Language Arts | Mathematics | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participation | % meeting standards | Participation | % meeting standards | |
| Schoolwide | Met, with participation averaging applied YES* | 15.5%270 scored | Met, with participation averaging applied YES* | 7.8%270 scored |
| American Indian | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students - | 0%0 scored |
| Asian | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students - | 0%0 scored |
| Black | Met, with participation averaging applied YES* | 14.9%235 scored | Met, with participation averaging applied YES* | 8.5%235 scored |
| Economically Disadvantaged | Met, with participation averaging applied YES* | 14.1%256 scored | Met, with participation averaging applied YES* | 7.8%256 scored |
| Hispanic | Met YES | 20%35 scored | Met YES | 2.9%35 scored |
| Limited English Proficiency | Too few students - | 0%5 scored | Too few students - | 0%5 scored |
| Students with Disabilities | Met, with participation averaging applied YES* | 1.3%75 scored | Met, with participation averaging applied YES* | 0%75 scored |
| Two or More Races | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students - | 0%0 scored |
| White | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too 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 met it — the page prints YES, Met.
The regime changes here. Above this line the state judged participation alone; below it, participation and performance against an individually set target, on a different test. A determination on one side of this line cannot be compared with one on the other, so nothing on this page draws a line through it.
2012 – 2014 · progress targets, on NJASK and HSPA
Each group large enough to score was measured against a progress target set for it individually, on NJASK and HSPA. These three years are comparable with each other. Most cells are empty by design — a group below the state’s minimum size got no determination at all. YES* never means the target was met. In these editions it marks a group that missed the printed target and was credited inside a 95% confidence interval, and it appears in the performance column.
| Student group | English Language Arts | Mathematics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participation | % proficient | Performance | Participation | % proficient | Performance | |
| Schoolwide | Met YES | 27%307 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 62.2 | Met YES | 41.8%306 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 70.9 |
| American Indian | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| Asian | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| Black | Met YES | 28.2%259 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 62.8 | Met YES | 40.5%259 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 71.5 |
| Economically Disadvantaged | Met YES | 27%289 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 62.1 | Met YES | 42.5%289 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 70.7 |
| Hispanic | Met YES | 22.2%45 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 49.6 | Met YES | 47.7%44 scored | Missed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 59.7 |
| Limited English Proficiency | Too few students - | 20%5 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 40%5 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| Students with Disabilities | Met YES | 5%121 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 20.7 | Met YES | 10.9%120 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 34.2 |
| Two or More Races | Too few students - | 0%1 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 100%1 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| White | Too few students - | 0%2 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 50%2 scored | Too few students to determine - |
Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2013 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.
| Student group | English Language Arts | Mathematics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participation | % proficient | Performance | Participation | % proficient | Performance | |
| Schoolwide | Met YES | 36.9%255 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 58 | Met YES | 46.3%255 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 67.7 |
| American Indian | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| Asian | Too few students - | 0%1 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 100%1 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| Black | Met YES | 37.7%217 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 58.6 | Met YES | 47%217 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 68.3 |
| Economically Disadvantaged | Met YES | 36.3%248 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 57.9 | Met YES | 45.9%248 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 67.5 |
| Hispanic | Met YES | 32.4%37 scored | Missed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 44.5 | Met YES | 40.5%37 scored | Missed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 55.6 |
| Limited English Proficiency | Too few students - | 0%7 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 14.3%7 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| Students with Disabilities | Met YES | 7.6%52 scored | Missed its target, credited within a 95% confidence interval YES*target 12.7 | Met YES | 13.4%52 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 27.6 |
| Two or More Races | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| White | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - |
Attendance, grades 3 through 8. New Jersey asked whether this school’s 2012 attendance rate reached 90%, once for the whole school and not by student group. It met it — the page prints YES, Met.
| Student group | Language Arts Literacy | Mathematics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participation | % proficient | Performance | Participation | % proficient | Performance | |
| Schoolwide | Met YES | 37.2%253 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 53.8 | Met YES | 55.7%253 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 64.5 |
| American Indian | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| Asian | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| Black | Met YES | 37.3%217 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 54.4 | Met YES | 57.2%217 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 65.1 |
| Economically Disadvantaged | Met YES | 37.3%236 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 53.7 | Met YES | 55.9%236 scored | Missed its target NOtarget 64.3 |
| Hispanic | Met YES | 39.4%33 scored | Large enough to score, but no target was ever set -- | Met YES | 51.5%33 scored | Large enough to score, but no target was ever set -- |
| Limited English Proficiency | Too few students - | 40%5 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 20%5 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| Students with Disabilities | Met YES | 4.7%43 scored | Large enough to score, but no target was ever set -- | Met YES | 21%43 scored | Large enough to score, but no target was ever set -- |
| Two or More Races | Too few students - | 0%3 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 0%3 scored | Too few students to determine - |
| White | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - | Too few students - | 0%0 scored | Too few students to determine - |
On this page NJDOE printed a determination token that appears in no legend it published in four places. Those cells are shown exactly as published and are corrected from nothing.
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 ESSA record works → · 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 →
