About This Site
A free resource for exploring New Jersey public school and district performance data.
What This Site Does
This site presents data from the New Jersey Department of Education's annual School Performance Reports in an interactive format. You can search for any New Jersey public school or district, add schools for side-by-side comparison, and explore trends across more than 35 data topics covering the 2018–19 through 2024–25 school years.
All data on this site comes directly from the NJDOE's public data releases. Nothing is calculated independently — the numbers shown are the same figures the state publishes. The site's purpose is to make that data easier to find and compare than navigating the NJDOE's own reporting portal or downloading raw spreadsheets.
The site covers all 679 New Jersey public school districts and approximately 2,500 schools, including regional schools, county vocational schools, and charter schools.
About NJ School Performance Reports
The New Jersey Department of Education publishes School Performance Reports each fall for every public school and district in the state. These reports are the primary way New Jersey fulfills its public reporting obligations under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the federal education law that replaced No Child Left Behind in 2015.
The reports bring together data from dozens of separate state and federal data collections, including NJ SMART (the state's student information system), the New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA), the Student Safety Data System (SSDS), the Course Roster submission, the NJ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending, and the Teacher Certification Information System, among others.
Each report covers a single school year. The 2024–25 School Performance Reports were released in fall 2025 and represent the most current data available on this site.
Data Topics Covered
Academic Achievement and Growth
Graduation and Pathways
College and Career Readiness
Climate and Learning Environment
Enrollment and Demographics
Accountability and Finance
Course Participation
Staff and School Operations
Key Metrics Explained
NJSLA (New Jersey Student Learning Assessment)
The statewide assessment administered each spring to students in grades 3 through 9 in English Language Arts and grades 3 through 8 (plus Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II) in mathematics. Students receive a score between 650 and 850, placed into five performance levels. Levels 4 and 5 represent meeting or exceeding grade-level expectations, and the percentage of students at Levels 4 and 5 is the proficiency rate reported throughout this site.
Student Growth Percentile (SGP)
A measure of how much academic growth a student made from one year to the next, compared to students statewide who had similar test score histories (academic peers). An SGP of 50 means a student grew at the median rate relative to peers. A school's median SGP (mSGP) reflects the growth of a typical student in that school. SGPs are calculated for ELA in grades 4 through 8 and mathematics in grades 4 through 7.
Chronic Absenteeism
A student is considered chronically absent when they miss 10% or more of the total days they were enrolled in school, regardless of whether absences are excused or unexcused. The chronic absenteeism rate is the percentage of enrolled students who meet this threshold. Certain absences — including religious observance, college visits, and civic events — are excluded from the calculation under New Jersey state rules.
Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate
The federal formula used to calculate graduation rates. A cohort of students is identified when they first enter grade 9. Students who transfer in are added and students who transfer out, emigrate, or die are removed. The rate is the percentage of the adjusted cohort that graduates with a state-endorsed diploma within four, five, or six years. New Jersey reports both a state version (which counts all diploma recipients) and a federal version (which excludes some students with disabilities under specific IEP provisions).
ESSA Summative Score and Rating
Each year, New Jersey calculates a summative score for every school by combining weighted scores across the ESSA accountability indicators: ELA proficiency, mathematics proficiency, ELA growth, mathematics growth, graduation rate, English language proficiency progress, and chronic absenteeism. The summative rating is the school's percentile rank on this score among schools in the same grade configuration (elementary/middle or high school). Scores and ratings are not comparable between elementary and high school configurations.
Per-Pupil Budgetary Cost
The total current expenditures of a school district divided by its average daily enrollment. Current expenditures include staff salaries and benefits, instructional supplies, purchased services, and other operating costs. Transportation, capital expenditures, debt service, and pension costs paid by the state on behalf of districts are excluded. This figure is published through the NJ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending and is a district-level metric applied uniformly to all schools in the district on this site.
NJGPA (New Jersey Graduation Proficiency Assessment)
A graduation assessment administered to all 11th grade students each spring, covering ELA and mathematics. Students receive a result of Graduation Ready or Not Yet Graduation Ready in each subject. The NJGPA is one of three pathways students can use to satisfy New Jersey's graduation assessment requirement; the others are achieving qualifying scores on substitute assessments (SAT, ACT, PSAT, Accuplacer) or demonstrating proficiency through a portfolio appeal in grade 12.
ESSA Accountability System
Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, New Jersey assigns each school an annual summative score and rating based on a set of weighted accountability indicators. The indicators include ELA proficiency, mathematics proficiency, ELA student growth, mathematics student growth, graduation rates, progress toward English language proficiency (for multilingual learners), and chronic absenteeism.
Each indicator is scored on a percentile scale, and the summative score is a weighted average of those indicator scores. Schools are assigned a summative rating that represents their percentile rank among schools with the same grade configuration (elementary/middle or high school). Schools in the bottom tiers of performance may be identified for additional state support.
New Jersey also uses the accountability system to identify schools for federal designations including Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI), Additional Targeted Support and Improvement (ATSI), and Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI). These identifications are based on a combination of overall school performance and performance for specific student groups.
Student Groups
Many dashboards on this site allow results to be filtered by student group. The student groups tracked in New Jersey's School Performance Reports include:
- Economically Disadvantaged (students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch)
- Students with Disabilities (students classified for special education)
- Multilingual Learners (students identified as needing English language proficiency services)
- Racial and ethnic groups (White, Black or African American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and others)
- Students Experiencing Homelessness
- Students in Foster Care
- Migrant Students
- Military-Connected Students
Student group results are not shown when the count in that group falls below the minimum subgroup size, which is used to protect student privacy. The minimum subgroup size applied in New Jersey's ESSA reporting is 20 students.
Data Sources and Accuracy
All data on this site is sourced from the NJDOE's publicly released School Performance Report data files. The NJDOE occasionally revises or corrects data after initial publication; this site reflects the data as of the most recent release available at time of update. If you identify a discrepancy between data shown here and the official NJDOE portal, the NJDOE's published reports should be considered authoritative.
Some metrics are reported at the district level only and are not available for individual schools. Per-pupil spending data, for example, is a district-level figure applied to all schools in that district on this site. Similarly, some staff categories may only be assigned at the district level, resulting in counts of zero for individual schools even when district-level staff serve those schools.
Data for the 2019–20 and 2020–21 school years is limited for most academic metrics because statewide assessments were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Assessment data was not reported for those years, and student growth data was not calculated for 2020–21 or 2021–22.
How to Use This Site
Start by searching for a school or district on the home page. Once a school is selected, you can navigate to any of the 35+ topic dashboards using the Dashboard menu in the navigation bar. Each dashboard shows data for the school or schools you have selected, with options to filter by student group, school year, or other available dimensions.
You can add multiple schools to compare results side by side. Use the school selector in the top right corner of the navigation bar to designate a home school and add comparison schools. Schools selected remain available as you move between dashboards.
The Multi-Chart Viewer allows you to view multiple dashboards on a single screen. The Correlation Explorer plots two metrics against each other across all schools in a selected grade configuration.