UPDATE: Lowest-Performing New Jersey Schools😔

This week I published an article that featured the "BEST" high schools in New Jersey. A new report from U.S. News and World Report listed the "cream of the crop" of high schools. This was obviously a list you wanted to be on, but now there is a list reported that shows the lowest-performing New Jersey Schools. Obviously, this is a list you do NOT want to be on. This latest report comes from the New Jersey Department of Education. In a recent Patch article, they reported that school districts were scored from 0 to 100 based on certain factors including "standardized test scores, student academic growth and graduation rates, among other metrics. Some measures, like academic growth, are now included in reports again after the Department of Education canceled statewide assessments in 2019-20 and 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic."

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Lowest-Performing New Jersey Schools

The data included the statement "Some schools did not get a score because the state did not have complete data for last school year. Schools serving only elementary students under grade 3 do not get a score, because their students do not participate in state standardized tests. Charter schools are listed separately, not by county. All schools are included."