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| 2018 NJDOE Hoboken Public School Ratings |
New Jersey education officials have for the first time assigned a score of 1 to 100 to each of the state's more than 2,000 public schools.
Burying the simplified scores was intentional, said Pete Shulman, a former assistant education commissioner under Gov. Chris Christie. The new ratings consider important factors the state uses to determine which schools need the most help (a federal requirement), but they don't capture the complete picture of a school, Shulman said.
He compared the scores to a letter grade at the top of a student's essay, with the rest of the report card containing important context, such as a teacher's comments.
In a statement, the state Department of Education said it designed the new ratings to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the new federal education law that replaced No Child Left Behind.
The law requires states to "meaningfully differentiate" schools' performance based on a variety of metrics and publish that information on school report cards, said Julie Woods, a policy analyst for the Education Commission of the States, which tracks state policy.
Nationwide, 45 states and the District of Columbia use some form of summative rating, such as a 1-100 rating, A-F rating or labels like "great," "good" and "excellent," Woods said.
Parents and citizens of Hoboken should pay particular attention to the percentile scores of the following public schools in Hoboken, NJ: Wallace Elementary, Connors Elementary, Hoboken Middle School and Hoboken High School.
The HoLa Dual Language School leads all Hoboken public schools in the new New Jersey Department of Education scoring system.
