These Are The Top 50 High Schools in New Jersey, According to U.S. World & Report

One of the many things that makes us New Jersey proud will always be our schools. U.S. News World & Report just released its rankings of the top schools in each state and across the country, and 50 of NJ’s schools placed in the top 1,000.

The schools are ranked based on college readiness (30 percent), state assessment proficiency (20 percent), state assessment performance (20 percent), underserved student performance (20 percent), college curriculum breadth (10 percent) and graduation rate (10 percent).

New Jersey has more than 444,000 students enrolled in 426 high schools across 314 school districts. Students are assessed in math, English/language arts and science via the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments; and they are required to study a world language as well as visual and performing arts to graduate, according to the New Jersey Department of Education.

U.S. World & Report reviewed nearly 25,000 U.S. public high schools, and 406 New Jersey schools made the list. The top 10 has three schools from Union County Vocational-Technical Schools in Scotch Plains alone and the top 20 overall has many vo-tech schools.

These are the top 50 high schools in New Jersey for 2024:

1. High Technology High School, Lincroft (No. 24 in the nation)
2. Edison Academy Magnet School, Edison (No. 42 in the nation)
3. Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health, Woodbridge (No. 58 in the nation)
4. Bergen County Academies, Hackensack (No. 62 in the nation)
5. Biotechnology High School, Freehold (No. 72 in the nation)
6. Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, Jersey City (No. 79 in the nation)
7. Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro (No. 90 in the nation)
8. Union County Magnet High School, Scotch Plains (No. 95 in the nation)
9. Academy for Information Technology, Scotch Plains (No. 111 in the nation)
10. Academy for Allied Health Sciences, Scotch Plains (No. 193 in the nation)
11. Glen Ridge High School, Glen Ridge (No. 198 in the nation)
12. Marine Academy of Science and Technology, Highlands (No. 207 in the nation)
13. STEM Innovation Academy of the Oranges, South Orange (No. 253 in the nation)
14. Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Flemington (No. 258 in the nation)
15. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, West Windsor (No. 313 in the nation)
16. Monmouth County Academy of Allied Health and Sciences, Neptune (No. 323 in the nation)
17. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Plainsboro (No. 339 in the nation)
18. Union County Tech, Scotch Plains (No. 346 in the nation)
19. Millburn High School, Millburn (No. 358 in the nation)
20. Livingston High School, Livingston (No. 405 in the nation)
21. Chatham High School, Chatham (No. 424 in the nation)
22. Diana C. Lobosco STEM Academy, Wayne (No. 427 in the nation)
23. Elizabeth High School, Elizabeth (No. 436 in the nation)
24. Northern Valley Regional High School, Demarest (No. 440 in the nation)
25. Ridge High School, Basking Ridge (No. 454 in the nation)
26. Central Jersey College Prep Charter School, Somerset (No. 498 in the nation)
27. John P. Stevens High School, Edison (No. 522 in the nation)
28. Passaic Academy for Science and Engineering, Passaic (No. 545 in the nation)
29. Summit Senior High School, Summit (No. 549 in the nation)
30. Montgomery High School, Skillman (No. 556 in the nation)
31. Tenafly High School, Tenafly (No. 597 in the nation)
32. Infinity Institute, Jersey City (No. 603 in the nation)
33. Princeton High School, Princeton (No. 617 in the nation)
34. Communications High School, Wall (No. 645 in the nation)
35. Northern Highlands Regional High School, Allendale (No. 693 in the nation)
36. Mountain Lakes High School, Mountain Lakes (No. 732 in the nation)
37. Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood (No. 764 in the nation)
38. Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School, Somerset (No. 786 in the nation)
39. Science Park High School, Newark (No. 851 in the nation)
40. Westfield High School, Westfield (No. 863 in the nation)
41. New Providence High School, New Providence (No. 879 in the nation)
42. Haddonfield Memorial High School, Haddonfield (No. 881 in the nation)
43. Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, Rumson (No. 897 in the nation)
44. Northern Valley Regional High School, Old Tappan (No. 900 in the nation)
45. Liberty High School, Jersey City (No. 902 in the nation)
46. Cresskill Middle/High School, Creskill (No. 934 in the nation)
47. Metuchen High School, Metuchen (No. 945 in the nation)
48. Moorestown High School, Moorestown (No. 947 in the  nation)
49. Emerson Junior-Senior High School, Emerson (No. 972 in the nation)
50. Mahwah High School, Mahwah (No. 1,009 in the nation)

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