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 890 students in 2024-25 and 827 students in 2025-26 — 63 fewer students.
See enrollment evidence →School-wide ELA proficiency was 12.0% in 2021-22 and 10.4% in 2024-25 — 1.6 percentage points lower.
See test-score evidence →The chronic-absence rate was 39.2% in 2018-19 and 51.8% in 2024-25 — 12.6 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 827 students. That is 630 more than in 2014-15 (197) — the school has grown. It peaked at 890 in 2024-25.
Total students enrolled each fall. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.
In 2014-15, 74% of students were Black. By 2025-26 the largest group was Hispanic, at 66%.
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 barely moved.
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, 64.6% 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: 10.4% met or exceeded expectations in 2024-25 (state 53%), down from 12% in 2021-22.
| School year | Met or exceeded | Valid scores | Test participation | NJ statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 12.0% | 691 | 78.0% | 49.0% |
| 2022-23 | 14.3% | 677 | 87.8% | 51.3% |
| 2023-24 | 17.8% | 704 | 89.4% | 52.2% |
| 2024-25 | 10.4% | 762 | 91.0% | 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%).
| School year | Met or exceeded | Valid scores | Test participation | NJ statewide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | <10% | 686 | 85.8% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | <10% | 656 | 85.8% | 38.2% |
| 2023-24 | <10% | 717 | 86.7% | 40.2% |
| 2024-25 | <10% | 754 | 86.8% | 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, 51.8% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — up from 39.2% in 2018-19.
† 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 · the ESSA record
New Jersey’s ESSA calculation workbooks carry a row for Trenton Central High School-9th Grade Academy, but no summative rating in any of them. What the workbooks did publish about it is below.
The workbook rows here, 2021-22, carry no rating at all.
| School year | Percentile in group | Summative score | NJDOE’s group | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | Not ranked this year | — | High | No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school |
Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →
