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Black student results in Jersey City Public Schools

Across 21 schools in Jersey City Public Schools, 25.1% of Black students meet proficient. That is 0.2 points above the New Jersey average for Black students.

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33.3%
All students
25.1%
Black
29.4%
Hispanic
48.3%
White
67.3%
Asian

Average across the 21 schools in Jersey City Public Schools 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 19 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Academy I reports 73.8% of Black students meeting the standard. Whitney M. Young, Jr. School, in the same district, reports 2.2%. That is a 71.6-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Jersey City Public Schools

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
Academy I Magnet 90.4% 73.8% 83.3% 89.5% 97.3%
Dr. Paul Rafalides School 44.8% 51.4% 44.7% 53.1%
Frank R Conwell School 50.3% 50% 41.6% 65.6%
Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School 39.6% 41.5% 33.9%
Dr. Michael Conti School 64.9% 40% 62.7% 86.8% 72%
Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School 37.8% 33.6% 41.3%
Rafael Cordero Y Molina 49.6% 32.5% 37.8% 0.6% 89%
Gladys Nunery School 25.6% 30.4% 24.6%
James F. Murray School 37.8% 29.7% 35% 36.4% 65.5%
Joseph H. Brensinger School 33.8% 24.9% 24.3% 41.5% 56.8%
Middle School # 4 53.6% 20.3% 31.9% 72.2% 94.1%
Dr. Charles P. Defuccio School 20.7% 16.7% 19.2%
Mahatma K. Gandhi School 31.4% 15.6% 19.3% 36.9% 49.8%
Alexander D. Sullivan School 21.1% 13.9% 18.6%
President Barack Obama Elementary School 17.5% 13.5% 19.5%
Ollie Culbreth, Jr. School 11.1% 10.1% 14%
Chaplain Charles Watters School 14.8% 10% 14.7% 15% 39.3%
Martin Center For The Arts 10.1% 9.6% 6.2%
Ezra L. Nolan School 9% 7.8% 8.3%
Whitney M. Young, Jr. School 8.3% 2.2% 11.9%
Franklin L. Williams School Magnet 28% 0.3% 24% 33.6% 42.1%

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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