Stanford University Report Shows Hoboken School District Students Completing Grades 3 to 8 Are Now 1.27 Grade Levels LOWER than Students with Similar Socioeconomic Status

The Hoboken Public Schools are not improving substantively despite a long term coordinated effort on social media to communicate such a message. In fact, the current data indicates that an 8th grade student educated in the Hoboken Public Schools will be 1.27 grades behind an 8th grader from a similar socioeconomic level school. Put another way, 8th graders in the Hoboken Public Schools are leaving with an education equivalent of that of a 6th grader in the month of March from the same socioeconomic strata. 



The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University has built the first national database of academic performance. As the project states,  "the educational opportunities available in a community, both in and out of school, are reflected in students’ average test scores. They are influenced by opportunities to learn at home, in neighborhoods, in child-care, preschool, and after-school programs, from peers and friends, and at school." 

Recall, last year, the analysis by researchers at Stanford University showed Hoboken had the lowest growth rate in Hudson County and was among the lowest growth rather in the State of NJ and the nation. Simply put, for the 2018 report, in the 5 years between Grades 3 to 8, students in the Hoboken School district were advancing only 4.1 grade years. 

The 2019 report indicates that for the years between Grades 3 to 8, students in the Hoboken School district are now advancing 1.27 grades LOWER than districts with similar socioeconomic status. This indicates results have not improved over last year and, in fact have shown decline. 

  Hoboken Schools Stanford 2019 by Tony Petrosino on Scribd