Summary:
In Highland Park Boro School District, the sole high school is Highland Park High School, serving grades 9–12 with 493 students, an 11.7:1 student–teacher ratio, and $19,147 in per-student spending in 2024–2025. The most important takeaway is a sharp split in results: the school is above New Jersey in science and NJGPA results, but far below the state in Geometry and Algebra I.
There are no local school-to-school leaders or trailers; the school’s clearest strengths and weakest areas emerge from comparisons with the state. In 2025–2026, 11th-grade science was 40%, 12 percentage points above New Jersey, while NJGPA English was 82%, 7 points above, and NJGPA Mathematics was 68%, 7 points above. Grade 9 English was also slightly higher than the state, at 52% versus 51%. The largest shortfalls were in Geometry: both End of Course and grade 9 results were 8%, respectively 44 and 42 points below the state. Algebra I was also low—7% End of Course and 7% in grade 9, 33 and 16 points below state results.
Results changed unevenly over time. Geometry had the sharpest setback: the End of Course result fell from 27% in 2024–2025 to 8% in 2025–2026, and its gap to the state widened by 14 points. By contrast, Algebra II’s gap narrowed from 14 points below the state to 4 points below, even as the school’s score fell from 67% to 48%; NJGPA Mathematics rose 10 points, from 58% to 68%. SchoolDigger ranked the school 191 of 434 schools, at the 56th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026, improving from 226 of 434, the 48th percentile and 2 stars the previous year, but remaining below its 59th-percentile result in 2023–2024. Other context: 41% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; the 2024–2025 graduation rate was 91%, compared with 89% statewide, while chronic absenteeism was 17%, 3 points above the state.
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