Summary:
Zip code 07004 has two public high schools, both serving grades 9–12: Essex Campus Academy and Essex High School, in the Essex Regional Educational Services Commission. These are small schools, with 37 and 34 students. The key achievement finding is that the only reported school proficiency result—Essex High School’s grade 11 English score—was far below the state rate: 16% versus 76%, a gap of 60 percentage points.
On that available result, Essex High School also scored 3 percentage points below the district’s 19%; there is no reported English result for Essex Campus Academy to establish which school performed better. Historically, Essex Campus Academy ranked higher: SchoolDigger placed it 387th of 415 high schools in 2017–2018, compared with 412th for Essex High School. That is a 25-place difference; their percentiles were 7th and 1st, and both received zero stars.
The figures do not show whether results are improving or declining: the test results are from 2025–2026, while the SchoolDigger rankings are from 2017–2018. The schools’ contexts are similar in some respects: student-teacher ratios were 12.3 at Essex Campus Academy and 11.3 at Essex High School; free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025 were 60% and 65%, respectively. These figures describe the schools but do not explain their results. Most other school test scores were suppressed, so the available evidence cannot show how either school compares across subjects or whether one is stronger overall.
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