We love New Jersey for its highly-rated schools and a new study has placed the Garden State close to the top of the list.
Educational resource site Teach Simple looked at data from sources including the National Center for Education Statistics and The Nation’s Report Card to analyze factors like bullying rate, academic performance, student-to-teacher ratio, dropout rate and college prep scores. Each factor was awarded a score of 10 to determine the ranking.
New Jersey comes in at No. 2 with a final index score of 69.19, slightly behind No. 1 Massachusetts at 71.54. New Jersey scored 10 in multiple categories; the average score in Grade 8 being 269.78 for reading and 175.33 for writing; the rate of students possessing firearms being just 0.43%; and the public expenditure on student support, food services and transportation at $3,625 per pupil.
With Connecticut at No. 3 and New York at No. 4 – plus PA at No. 9 – the Northeast has some of the best schools in the nation.
Here are The Top 10 School Systems in the U.S.:
- Massachusetts
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- New York
- Maryland
- Iowa
- Maine
- Virginia
- Pennsylvania
- Wisconsin
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