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| Hoboken Board of Education "Reform" Members Circa 2009 Photo: Amy Sara Clark nj.com |
The most recent SAT scores have been released for all New Jersey High Schools (2018 school year). The NJ State average for Mathematics is 543 (on a 0-800 scale) and the NJ State average for Reading is 542 (on a 0-800 scale). The average combined score for New Jersey is 1085.
Scores in Hoboken were -97 points below the state average in Mathematics and -79 points below the state average in Reading. The combined Hoboken average is -176 below the New Jersey state average.
The scores place Hoboken High School 15th out of 20 public and charter schools in Hudson County, New Jersey. The total combined score of 909 places Hoboken High School 354th of 433 public and charter high schools in the State of New Jersey.
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| Picture 1: 2018 Hudson County SAT Scores Data: New Jersey Department of Education CLICK TO ENLARGE |
The Hoboken Public School District is a non-poverty majority public school district with an average student teacher ratio of 9:1, an allocation of approximately $26,000+ per student, and an average teacher salary in the neighborhood of $100,000. The SAT scores are inconsistent with what educational researchers would expect from such a well funded, non-poverty majority, district with well paid and certified teachers.
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| Hoboken Board of Education "Reform" 2019 |
It is now well past a decade into the "reform" era of the Hoboken Public Schools. In that time, the City of Hoboken has spent well over a half a billion dollars on the Hoboken Public Schools (omitting money sent to Charter Schools). What is and is not going on in the Hoboken Public Schools is beginning to get national attention.
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