NCES CCD 2024-25 15 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Scotch Plains, NJ

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

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15
Schools
7,470
Students
59.1/100
Avg Resource Index
14.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Scotch Plains has more public-school enrollment than 71% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Scotch Plains sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Secondary campuses occupy an unusually large share

8 of the 15 listed Scotch Plains schools are classified as high schools, a substantial share of the local portfolio. Advanced-course access, counseling, and graduation-stage staffing therefore have more weight in the city Resource Index average than they do in an elementary-heavy system.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Scotch Plains's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 98th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 61st percentile. The 37-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 29%
School count
Top 23%
Resource Index average
98th percentile
Teacher staffing
61st percentile

Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School accounts for 20.9% of all Scotch Plains public-school enrollment

That concentration means Scotch Plains-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

Scotch Plains school enrollment varies 23× across entities

Scotch Plains school enrollment ranges from 67 students (lowest) to 1,562 students (highest), a spread of 1,495 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. 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

Scotch Plains student-teacher ratio is 14.5:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Scotch Plains is typically wider than the Scotch Plains-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Union County Career & Technical Institute 86
2. Evergreen Elementary School 68
3. William J. Mcginn Elementary School 67
4. J. Ackerman Coles Elementary School 67
5. Howard B. Brunner Elementary School 66
6. School One Elementary 65
7. Terrill Middle School 55
8. Malcolm E Nettingham Middle School 54
9. Union County Magnet High School 54
10. Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School 53
11. Academy for Information Technology 53
12. Academy for Allied Health Sciences 52
13. Academy for Performing Arts 52
14. Union County Tech 49
15. Hillcrest Academy-North 46

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Scotch Plains

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 Academy for Allied Health Sciences 75.3/100
  2. 2 Academy for Information Technology 75.0/100
  3. 3 Union County Tech 72.2/100
  4. 4 Union County Magnet High School 70.9/100
  5. 5 Union County Career & Technical Institute 68.5/100

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Which Scotch Plains school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Union County Career & Technical Institute has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Scotch Plains schools in this federal-data comparison at 86/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Scotch Plains, NJ? ▼

Scotch Plains has 15 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,470 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.5:1.

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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.