Best Public Schools in Lake Como, NJ

Lake Como, New Jersey, has one listed public high school, Academy Charter High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 166 students, so it is the entire local school picture in this data. The most important concern is that every reportable 2025–26 test result was below the New Jersey average, with grade-11 NJGPA mathematics 34 percentage points behind: 27% of students were proficient, compared with 61% statewide.

There is no local top or bottom school to compare: Academy Charter High School is the only school listed. Its closest 2025–26 result to the state was ninth-grade Algebra I, at 21.5% versus 22.2%, a shortfall of about 1 percentage point. The largest gap was in grade-11 NJGPA mathematics; the NJGPA English result was also well below the state, 55% versus 76%, a 21-point gap. Completion measures were more favorable: in 2024–25, graduation was 90% versus 89% statewide, and the school’s dropout rate was 0.6% versus 0.8%. Chronic absenteeism was a concern, at 22% compared with 14% statewide.

Test-score trends were mixed, with modest average gap-closing rather than broad improvement. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, ninth-grade ELA rose from 27% to 39%, and Algebra I from 3% to 22%; grade-11 science rose from 7% to 11%. NJGPA English moved the other way, falling from 88% to 55%, while NJGPA math rose from 19% to 27%. Across five repeated comparisons, the average gap improved by about 2 percentage points, from about 19 points below the state to about 17 points below. SchoolDigger’s rank history rose from the 10th percentile in 2023–24 to the 22nd in 2024–25, then slipped to the 17th percentile in 2025–26 (rank 362 of 434). For context, in 2024–25, 86% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible, and the student–teacher ratio was 8.9. Because only one school is listed, local comparisons with peer schools are not possible.