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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 07112

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At a glance

Schools

2,882

Students

Top rankedChancellor Avenue School1186^th of 1,331 New Jersey elementary schools

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Biggest riser

Chancellor Avenue School up 65 spots statewide this year

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Smallest classes

NJ Regional Day School - Newark 7.6 students per teacher

SchoolDigger ratings

1★

0★

2 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)

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Summary:

Schools in zip code 07112 include seven schools—four elementary schools, two high schools and one alternative school—in the Newark Public School District; the three elementary schools with usable test results serve PK–8. The strongest results still trail statewide proficiency: Chancellor Avenue School, the elementary leader, averaged 27% in ELA and 18% in math, compared with state averages of 51% and 40%. At the high-school level, Weequahic High School had 40% in grade-11 NJGPA ELA and 20% in math, versus 76% and 61% statewide. The most important takeaway is that even the local leaders remain well below state results.

Chancellor Avenue School leads the elementary schools overall, ahead of Peshine Avenue School by 8 percentage points in ELA and 4 points in math. George Washington Carver Elementary School has the lowest averages: 13% in ELA and 8% in math, compared with Chancellor’s 27% and 18%. Peshine stands out in science, leading the comparable elementary schools with 5% in grade 5 and 5% in grade 8, though state results were 27% and 19%. Among high schools, Weequahic leads Eagle Academy for Young Men of Newark in every comparable reported test; the closest result is grade-11 NJGPA math, at 20.0% versus 19.4%.

Recent changes are mixed: elementary-school averages fell by about 1 point in ELA and rose by 2 points in math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the state averages fell by 3 points in ELA and were nearly unchanged in math. Individual grades diverged sharply: Peshine’s grade-8 ELA fell 15 points, while Chancellor’s grade-4 math rose 21 points. SchoolDigger ranks Chancellor 1,186 of 1,331 elementary schools (11th percentile, one star), Peshine 1,250 (6th percentile, zero stars) and Carver 1,312 (1st percentile, zero stars); among high schools, Weequahic is at the 3rd percentile and Eagle at the 0th. Context differs too: Peshine and Chancellor have similar student-teacher ratios, 13.5 and 13.4, but their reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 80% and 88% in sy 2024–2025. Bruce Street School’s test figures are suppressed, and no test results are supplied for NJ Regional Day School - Newark.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				NJGPA English Language Arts (2026)	NJGPA Mathematics (2026)	NJSLA-S Science (2026)			NJSLA English Language Arts (2026)							NJSLA Mathematics (2026)						NJSLA Algebra I (2026)			Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	NJGPA English Language Arts 11th Grade	NJGPA Mathematics 11th Grade	NJSLA-S Science 5th Grade	NJSLA-S Science 8th Grade	NJSLA-S Science 11th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 3rd Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 4th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 5th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 6th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 7th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 8th Grade	NJSLA English Language Arts 9th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 3rd Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 4th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 5th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 6th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 7th Grade	NJSLA Mathematics 8th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I 8th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I 9th Grade	NJSLA Algebra I End of Course	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Weequahic High School	Public	9-12	279 Chancellor Ave	Newark	07112	Essex County	Newark Public School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(973) 705-3903	592	36	16.4	70.4%	5 (0.8%)	503 (85.0%)	72 (12.2%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)	4 (0.7%)	7 (1.2%)	7.6	419^th of 434 public high schools	3.5%		7	426^th of 434 public high schools	1.8%	7	40.3	20.0			7.6							15.2								5.3	5.3	$21,671	$2,025	$19,646
Bruce Street School	Public	PK, KG-8	333 Clinton Pl	Newark	07112	Essex County	Newark Public School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(973) 705-3952	34	10	3.4	70.6%	1 (2.9%)	10 (29.4%)	23 (67.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)								(n/a)																						$65,197	$2,181	$63,016
Chancellor Avenue School	Public	PK, KG-8	321 Chancellor Ave	Newark	07112	Essex County	Newark Public School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(973) 705-3870	607	45	13.4	88.3%	5 (0.8%)	517 (85.2%)	78 (12.9%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)	5 (0.8%)	12.9	1186^th of 1331 public elementary schools	10.9%		10.2	1251^st of 1347 public elementary schools	7.1%	65			4.3	1.8		42.5	17.0	15.6	17.6	46.5	24.6		27.7	29.8	14.9	7.8	22.8	7.4				$22,310	$2,317	$19,993
Peshine Avenue School	Public	PK, KG-8	433 Peshine Avenue	Newark	07112	Essex County	Newark Public School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(973) 705-3890	635	47	13.5	79.5%	3 (0.5%)	354 (55.7%)	268 (42.2%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (0.5%)	2 (0.3%)	5 (0.8%)	9.2	1250^th of 1331 public elementary schools	6.1%		7.9	1284^th of 1347 public elementary schools	4.7%	34			4.9	5.2		20.0	15.9	15.0	20.4	28.9	17.6		21.2	17.4	22.0	9.1	10.9	3.7				$20,186	$1,975	$18,211
Eagle Academy for Young Men of Newark	Public	9-12	279 Chancellor Avenue	Newark	07112	Essex County	Newark Public School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(973) 705-3847	155	14	11.0	82.6%	1 (0.6%)	118 (76.1%)	31 (20.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.6%)	1 (0.6%)	3 (1.9%)	4	434^th of 434 public high schools	0.0%		12.6	405^th of 434 public high schools	6.7%	29	31.4	19.4										3.8								0.0	0.0	$33,156	$2,819	$30,337
George Washington Carver Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-8	333 Clinton Pl	Newark	07112	Essex County	Newark Public School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(973) 705-3800	736	46	16.0	63.6%	8 (1.1%)	418 (56.8%)	294 (39.9%)	1 (0.1%)	2 (0.3%)	4 (0.5%)	9 (1.2%)	4.4	1312^th of 1331 public elementary schools	1.4%		5.3	1320^th of 1347 public elementary schools	2.0%	8			0.0	1.4		5.7	7.3	9.1	13.0	22.2	18.6		5.6	1.5	9.0	10.2	20.3	1.5				$16,231	$1,603	$14,628
NJ Regional Day School - Newark	Public, Alternative	K-12	334 Lyons Ave	Newark	07112	Essex County	Newark Public School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(973) 705-3820	123	16	7.6	83.7%	1 (0.8%)	65 (52.8%)	56 (45.5%)	1 (0.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)								(n/a)

Cities Near Zip Code 07112

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Newark	0.22 mi	89	459^th
Hillside	0.88 mi	7	434^th
Irvington	1.12 mi	13	531^st
Elizabeth	1.62 mi	39	448^th
Union	2.35 mi	12	393^rd

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Jersey Department of Education.

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