Summary:
The area represented here has one school, University Academy Charter High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 429 students. Because no other schools are listed, there is no school-to-school comparison. The most important finding is that every latest reported test result was below its state comparison, with gaps ranging from 9 to 35 points.
Within the school’s latest results, 11th-grade NJGPA English Language Arts stands out as closest to the state result: 66% compared with 76%, a reported gap of 9 points. Algebra I is the weakest result, at 5%; it is 35 points below the state End-of-Course result and 18 points below the state’s 9th-grade result. Those are different state comparisons. Other gaps include 34 points in 9th-grade English Language Arts (17% versus 51%), 12 points in 11th-grade science (16% versus 29%), and 16 points in 11th-grade NJGPA mathematics (45% versus 61%).
Results changed in different directions across the two years: science rose 8 points and 11th-grade NJGPA English and math rose 2 and 15 points, while 9th-grade English fell 10 points and Algebra I fell 4 points. These are results for different cohorts, not a record of individual students’ progress. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile fell from 18 in 2023–2024 to 12 in 2024–2025, then recovered to 16 in 2025–2026. Completion and attendance figures were stronger than the state’s: the graduation rate was 93% versus 89%, and chronic absenteeism was 4% versus 14%; the dropout rate was 1% versus 1%, with the school 0.2 points higher before rounding. As context, 80% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 10.7.
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