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Black student results in East Orange School District

Across 15 schools in East Orange School District, 27.2% of Black students meet proficient. That is 2.3 points above the New Jersey average for Black students.

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29.2%
All students
27.2%
Black
22.2%
Hispanic
5.9%
White

Average across the 15 schools in East Orange School District with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 15 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, J. Garfield Jackson Sr. Academy reports 55.4% of Black students meeting the standard. John L. Costley Middle School, in the same district, reports 8.2%. That is a 47.2-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in East Orange School District

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting proficient. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
J. Garfield Jackson Sr. Academy 45% 55.4% 45%
East Orange Stem Academy High School Magnet 49% 47.4% 0.6%
Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School Magnet 36.7% 40.1% 40.9%
Langston Hughes Elementary School 35.3% 36.5% 0.2%
Shelia Y. Oliver Academy 39.1% 35.5% 30.4%
Dionne Warwick Institute 40.1% 33.3% 45%
Mildred Barry Garvin Elementary Magnet 30.9% 31.9% 19.2%
Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School 25.9% 25.1% 32%
Benjamin Banneker Academy 26.1% 24.1%
Edward T. Bowser, Sr. School Of Excellence 16.5% 22.4% 14.7% 4.2%
Whitney E. Houston Academy Magnet 34% 16.4% 30%
Sojourner Truth Middle School 11.3% 11.6% 10% 15%
Ecole Toussaint Louverture 29% 10.6%
Patrick F. Healy Middle School 9.8% 10.1% 7.9% 0.1%
John L. Costley Middle School 9% 8.2% 12.3% 4.3%

Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.

How to read this. New Jersey suppresses results for groups with too few students tested. Schools without a reportable Black student result are excluded rather than shown as zero — 756 of New Jersey's schools have reportable data. Coverage is grades 3–8; high schools are not included. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, New Jersey figures should not be compared against another state's.

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