Lenape Regional High School District

The Lenape Regional High School District includes four high schools—Cherokee, Lenape, Shawnee and Seneca—all serving grades 9–12. The district’s results are stronger than the state’s in several reported areas, including ninth-grade English Language Arts (ELA), grade 11 science and NJGPA mathematics. The clearest shared weakness is Algebra I: the four-school average was 19% proficient in both End-of-Course and grade 9 results, compared with 40% and 22% statewide, respectively.

Shawnee leads several broad measures: 63% in ninth-grade ELA, 48% in grade 11 science and 75% in NJGPA mathematics. Its ELA score was 3 points above the next-highest school, Lenape; its science result led Lenape by 5 points, and its NJGPA math result led Cherokee by 3. Cherokee stands out in reported Algebra II and NJGPA ELA, with 74% in both Algebra II categories and 87% in NJGPA ELA. Seneca had the lowest ninth-grade ELA (52%) and science (36%), while Lenape was lowest in the reported Algebra I and geometry measures. Some Algebra II and NJGPA ELA results were suppressed, so those comparisons include only reported school scores.

Results have moved in different directions: the ninth-grade ELA average rose from 48% to 58% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while the Algebra I End-of-Course average fell from 23% to 19%. Seneca made the largest ELA gain, up 19 points to 52%, despite having the lowest 2024–2025 graduation rate, 82%, and highest chronic absenteeism, 15%. SchoolDigger ranks Cherokee 152nd, Shawnee 153rd, Lenape 168th and Seneca 174th among 434 schools. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 9% at Shawnee to 23% at Lenape; these figures are context, not an explanation for test results.