NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Rahway, NJ

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6 public K-12 schools in Rahway from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
4,090
Students
50.7/100
Avg Resource Index
12.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Rahway has more public-school enrollment than 45% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Rahway's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Rahway's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Rahway's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 89th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 18-point gap between Roosevelt Elementary School and Grover Cleveland Elementary School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 55%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
89th percentile
Teacher staffing
83rd percentile

Rahway High School accounts for 31.4% of all Rahway public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Rahway-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Rahway school enrollment varies 3.3× across entities

Rahway school enrollment ranges from 384 students (lowest) to 1,286 students (highest), a spread of 902 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Rahway operates one school district — a single-district system

Rahway's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Rahway student-teacher ratio is 12.6:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Roosevelt Elementary School 60
2. Madison Elementary School 58
3. Rahway High School 48
4. Rahway 7th & 8th Grade Academy 48
5. Franklin Elementary School 48
6. Grover Cleveland Elementary School 42

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Rahway

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Madison Elementary School 68.5/100
  2. 2 Roosevelt Elementary School 64.8/100
  3. 3 Rahway 7th & 8th Grade Academy 63.1/100
  4. 4 Rahway High School 62.8/100
  5. 5 Grover Cleveland Elementary School 61.8/100

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Which Rahway school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Roosevelt Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Rahway schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Rahway, NJ? ▼

Rahway has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,090 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.