High Schools in Hazlet Township Public School District

The high schools in Hazlet Township Public School District consist of one school, Raritan High School, serving grades 9–12 with 781 students. In 2024–2025, graduation was 94%, compared with 89% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 11%, compared with 14% statewide. The most important concern is that Raritan’s 2025–2026 Geometry proficiency was far below the state’s in both reported results.

Raritan’s strongest relative result was grade 11 NJGPA English Language Arts: 78% proficient, about 2 percentage points above the state. Its weakest results were Geometry: about 4% proficient in the grade 9 result versus 50% statewide, a 46-point gap, and about 4% in the end-of-course result versus 52% statewide, a 48-point gap. Other results were also below state rates, including grade 9 English Language Arts at 35% versus 51% and grade 11 Science at 18% versus 29%. The school’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 5 points above the state rate; its dropout rate was 0% versus 1% statewide, and its chronic absenteeism rate was 4 points lower.

Across eight matched test comparisons, Raritan’s position relative to the state generally weakened from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with exceptions: Geometry gaps narrowed by 5 and 4 points and the Science gap narrowed by 1 point, while the grade 9 English Language Arts gap widened by 8 points and the Algebra I gaps widened by about 10 points. NJGPA English Language Arts remained above the state, but its advantage shrank from 5 points to 2; NJGPA Math shifted from 4 points above the state to 4 points below. SchoolDigger’s ranking fell from the 48th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 29th percentile in 2025–2026. Raritan’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 12.4, and 23% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible (school year 2024–2025). Because the list contains just one school, it cannot show local school-to-school differences.