Hudson County’s top rated schools. See latest full list.

NJ Advance Media assigned each New Jersey high school a ranking number between 1 and 357 based on the “summative ratings” calculated by the state Department of Education.

The ratings — released last month as part of the state School Performance Reports — measure how each school compares to other schools with the same grade levels when test scores and other factors are considered.

The ratings are calculated using standardized test scores, student academic growth, graduation rates and other factors, including chronic absenteeism. Each school is given a score from 0 to 100, called a “summative score.”

Schools with the same grade configurations are compared to each other and given a percentile rating from 0 to 100, called a “summative rating.” The three comparison groups are: high schools; elementary and middle schools; and mixed grade configuration schools.

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LINK: https://www.nj.com/hudson/2024/05/hudson-countys-top-rated-schools-see-lastest-full-list.html

                                                                            Summative Rating          Summative Score

Jersey City Public Schools	Infinity Institute	100.00	90.50
Union City School District	Sara M. Gilmore Academy	98.92	94.24
Jersey City Public Schools	Cornelia F. Bradford School	98.86	94.04
Jersey City Public Schools	Dr Ronald McNair High School	96.67	93.67
Soaring Heights Charter School	Soaring Heights Charter School	96.22	89.33
Union City School District	Jose Marti STEM Academy	94.17	91.44
Hudson County Schools of Technology School District	High Tech High School	91.67	87.23
Jersey City Public Schools	Liberty High School	89.17	81.45
Union City School District	Jefferson Elementary School	87.46	78.15
Hudson County Schools of Technology School District	County Prep High School	85.83	78.29
Jersey City Public Schools	Jotham W. Wakeman School	83.02	75.13
Hoboken Charter School District	Hoboken Charter School	82.69	69.82
Hoboken Public School District	Joseph F Brandt Elementary School	79.90	72.14
Hudson County Schools of Technology School District	Explore Middle School	79.72	71.99
Secaucus School District	Secaucus Middle School	78.34	71.21
Hoboken Dual Language Charter School	Hoboken Dual Language Charter School	78.28	71.19
Jersey City Public Schools	Dr. Michael Conti School	78.10	71.09
Elysian Charter School	Elysian Charter School of Hoboken	77.20	70.11
Jersey City Golden Door Charter School	Jersey City Golden Door Charter School	73.07	67.29
Jersey City Public Schools	Academy I	73.01	67.28
Union City School District	Colin Powell Elementary School	68.15	63.36
Jersey City Global Charter School	Jersey City Global Charter School	66.77	62.33
BelovED Community Charter	BelovED Community Charter School	66.59	62.15
Hudson County Schools of Technology School District	Academy of Technology Design	66.11	60.46
Jersey City Public Schools	Innovation High School	65.56	60.21
The Learning Community Charter School	Learning Community Charter School	64.61	61.08
Hoboken Public School District	Thomas G. Connors Elementary School	64.31	60.92
Harrison Public Schools	Hamilton Intermediate School	64.25	60.91
University Academy Charter High School	University Academy Charter High School	63.06	58.58
Weehawken Public School District	Weehawken High School	61.54	51.10
Bayonne School District	John M. Bailey Community School	61.37	58.87
Jersey City Public Schools	Frank R Conwell School	61.01	58.47
Jersey City Public Schools	Nicolaus Copernicus School	60.77	58.39
Union City School District	Veterans' Memorial Elementary School	59.03	57.16
West New York School District	Public School Number Two	58.49	56.87
Union City School District	George Washington Elementary School	57.89	56.47
North Bergen School District	Lincoln Elementary School	57.77	56.46
Harrison Public Schools	Washington Middle School	57.11	56.03
Union City School District	Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School	56.57	55.59
North Bergen School District	Robert Fulton Elementary School	55.25	54.48
Jersey City Public Schools	Alfred Zampella School	55.01	54.43
Hoboken Public School District	Hoboken Middle School	54.77	54.35
Hoboken Public School District	Wallace Elementary School	54.41	54.05
Union City School District	Thomas A Edison Elementary School	53.81	53.59
Bayonne School District	Horace Mann Community School	53.63	53.56
Bayonne School District	Philip G. Vroom Community School	52.49	52.72
Weehawken Public School District	Theodore Roosevelt School	52.37	52.59
Hoboken Public School District	Hoboken High School	51.67	50.67
Secaucus School District	Huber Street School	50.93	51.79
Bayonne School District	Bayonne High School	50.56	49.75
Union City School District	Union Hill Middle School	50.33	51.43
North Bergen School District	Horace Mann Elementary School	50.21	51.33
Kearny	Washington Elementary School	49.97	51.16
North Bergen School District	Franklin Elementary School	49.91	51.15
Kearny	Kearny High School	49.44	49.55
Bayonne School District	Nicholas Oresko Community School	49.37	50.79
Empowerment Academy Charter School	Empowerment Academy Charter School	48.89	50.61
Secaucus School District	Clarendon School	47.93	50.00
Jersey City Public Schools	Rafael Cordero y Molina	46.37	49.01
Bayonne School District	Lincoln Community School #5	46.13	48.83
West New York School District	Albio Sires Elementary School	44.57	47.71
Jersey City Public Schools	Christa McAuliffe School	43.85	47.05
Secaucus School District	Secaucus High School	43.61	46.92
Bayonne School District	Woodrow Wilson Community School	42.53	46.38
Union City School District	Robert Waters Elementary School	42.05	45.97
West New York School District	Public School Number Five	41.57	45.62
Bayonne School District	Washington Community School #9	41.09	45.34
Jersey City Public Schools	Charles E. Trefurt School	40.91	45.27
Harrison Public Schools	Harrison High School	40.56	43.50
West New York School District	Robert Menendez Elementary School	39.53	44.37
Jersey City Public Schools	Rev. Dr. Ercel F. Webb School	38.75	44.02
Kearny	Schuyler Elementary School	38.51	43.80
Union City School District	Emerson Middle School	38.21	43.68
Bayonne School District	William Shemin Midtown Community School #8	36.35	42.26
Kearny	Franklin Elementary School	36.11	41.99

Jersey City Public Schools	Patricia M. Noonan School, PS #26	35.33	41.62
Jersey City Public Schools	Julia A. Barnes School	34.91	41.22
Guttenberg School District	Anna L. Klein	34.85	41.22
Union City School District	Union City High School	34.72	40.24
North Bergen School District	McKinley Elementary School	33.83	40.64
North Bergen School District	John F Kennedy Elementary School	31.07	38.39
West New York School District	Harry L Bain	31.01	38.35
Bayonne School District	Mary J Donohoe Community School	29.87	37.32
West New York School District	Public School Number One	29.03	36.71
Jersey City Public Schools	James J Ferris High School	28.61	35.89
Bayonne School District	Walter F. Robinson Community School	28.07	36.22
Jersey City Public Schools	Martin Luther King, Jr. School	27.29	35.65
Jersey City Public Schools	James F. Murray School	26.87	35.18
Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School	Dr Lena Edwards Academic Charter School	26.81	35.11
Jersey City Public Schools	Joseph H. Brensinger School	26.39	34.74
North Bergen School District	Polk Street School	25.13	34.05
Kearny	Garfield Elementary School	24.84	33.66
Jersey City Public Schools	Dr. Paul Rafalides School	24.24	32.84
Jersey City Community Charter School	Jersey City Community Charter School	24.12	32.80
West New York School District	West New York Middle School	24.06	32.78
Jersey City Public Schools	Middle School # 4	22.80	32.08
Hudson Arts and Science Charter School	Hudson Arts and Science Charter School	22.62	31.99
Bayonne School District	Henry E. Harris Community School	22.02	31.76
Kearny	Roosevelt Elementary School	20.34	30.68
North Bergen School District	North Bergen High School	20.00	30.34
Jersey City Public Schools	Dr. Maya Angelou Elementary School	19.50	29.94
Jersey City Public Schools	Gladys Nunery School	18.54	29.21
The Ethical Community Charter School School District	The Ethical Community Charter School	16.02	27.05
Jersey City Public Schools	Franklin L. Williams School	12.72	22.95
West New York School District	Memorial High School	12.50	21.28
Jersey City Public Schools	Mahatma K. Gandhi School	12.36	22.64
Kearny	Lincoln Middle School	12.06	22.46
East Newark School District	East Newark Elementary School	11.46	21.97
Jersey City Public Schools	Dr. Charles P. DeFuccio School	8.34	19.06
Jersey City Public Schools	William L Dickinson High School	7.22	15.10
Jersey City Public Schools	President Barack Obama Elementary School	6.84	16.93
Jersey City Public Schools	Ollie Culbreth, Jr. School	5.34	14.92
Jersey City Public Schools	Alexander D. Sullivan School	4.14	12.89
Jersey City Public Schools	Lincoln High School	2.78	7.81
Jersey City Public Schools	Chaplain Charles Watters School	2.70	9.89
Jersey City Public Schools	Martin Center for the Arts	2.46	9.66
Jersey City Public Schools	Ezra L. Nolan School	1.56	7.21
Jersey City Public Schools	Henry Snyder High School	1.39	5.42
Jersey City Public Schools	Whitney M. Young, Jr. School	0.90	5.93
Bayonne School District	Bayonne Alternative High School	0.00	0.15
Harrison Public Schools	Lincoln Elementary School	n/a	45.71
Harrison Public Schools	Kennedy Elementary School	n/a	n/a
Hudson County Schools of Technology School District	Academy of Career and Technical Education	n/a	61.05
Union City School District	Hudson Elementary School	n/a	58.55
Union City School District	Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education	n/a	n/a
Weehawken Public School District	Daniel Webster School	n/a	n/a

Welcome to Hoboken Sign Drawing Attention

 

The City of Hoboken plans to award a contract to repaint the "Welcome to Hoboken" sign for ~$227,000, funded by the Hoboken Public Art Program. It will be voted on at an upcoming City Council meeting. A number of people have expressed concern about the cost & have asked if there are alternatives. Reports are that the project was put out for public bid.

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Petrosino along with Other Faculty and Students to Present Six Papers at ISLS Conference

Congratulations to the team of SMU Simmons faculty and students who have 6 papers accepted at The International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) conference which will take place in Buffalo, New York, on June 10-14, 2024.

SMU is proud of Dr. Walkington, along with other faculty members Drs. Anthony Cuevas, Anthony Petrosino, Kelsey Schenck, Prajakt Pande, post-doc researchers Drs. LeaAnne Daughrity, and Max Sherard, as well as Simmons Ph.D. students Saki Milton, Marc Sager, Julianna Washington, and Theodora Beauchamp.

The following are the references of the accepted papers:

1. Sager, M., Sherard, M., Milton, S., Walkington, C., & Petrosino, A. Learning math through a game-based personal excursion.
2. Schenck, K., Kim, D., Xia, F., Swart, M., Walkington, C., & Nathan, M.J. Exploring Interactive Technology for Supporting Embodied Geometric Reasoning.
3. Daughrity, L., Walkington, C., Sherard, M., Pande, P., Beauchamp, T., & Cuevas, A. From Abstract to Tangible: Leveraging Virtual Reality and GeoGebra for Playful Math Education.
4. Sherard, M., Walkington, C., Daughrity, L., Pande, P., Beauchamp, T., Petrosino, A., & Cuevas, A. Pedagogical Issues in Virtual Reality Mathematics Education.
5. Milton, S., Sager, M., & Walkington, C. Exploring STEM Identity and Belonging in Minoritized Girls at a Summer Camp.
6. Washington, J., Darwin, T., Beauchamp, T., & Walkington, C. A Qualitative Comparison of Mathematics Teachers’ and Students’ Experiences in a Virtual Reality Algebra Application.

City of Hoboken to Name Gym at 605 Jackson St. After the Late Damon Murray

The City of Hoboken will name the gym at 605 Jackson St. after the late Damon Murray, a 21-year-old walk-on Rutgers football player who was gunned down last month. 

The city will officially unveil new signage naming the gym the “Damon Murray Community Gym” at a celebration this summer to be announced at a later date.

Hoboken’s Jackson Street Center gym will be renamed in tribute to former Hoboken High School football and basketball star Damon Murray, who was shot dead last month.

NJDOE Hoboken Public School Ratings for 2022-23 Released

These ratings — released in April 2024 as part of the state School Performance Reports — measure how each school compares to other schools with the same grade levels when test scores and other factors are considered.

The ratings are calculated using standardized test scores, student academic growth, graduation rates and other factors, including chronic absenteeism. Each school is given a score from 0 to 100, called a “summative score.”

Schools with the same grade configurations are compared to each other and given a percentile rating from 0 to 100, called a “summative rating.” The three comparison groups are: high schools; elementary and middle schools; and mixed grade configuration schools.

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Source: NJ.COM Hudson County’s top rated schools. See latest full list./ Updated: May. 01, 2024, 6:34 p.m.|Published: May. 01, 2024, 6:45 a.m./ By Katie Kausch | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Former Hoboken High Two-sport Star is Shot Dead- Outrage at City Council Meeting

The Hoboken City Council heard a public outcry of outrage and distress over the murder of Damon Murray, 21, who was gunned down outside a housing authority building on Sunday night April 28th, at Wednesday’s meeting. Given that dozens of people came to council chambers to speak about Murray’s killing, Council President Jen Giattino suspended the agenda to allow public comment to begin right away. 

4th Ward Councilman Ruben Ramos asked for a moment of silence, as did Vanessa Falco, a former councilwoman who now serves as the director of the Division of Housing. “When I heard about the death of Nunu, I was sick and heartbroken. I feel like we’re family. Nunu’s death has crushed the city. He was someone the youth looked up to. How did this happen again? 

A year ago, there was another homicide in the Hoboken Housing Authority,” Vanetta Rivera stated, referring to the September 2022 slaying of Christopher Garcia. “There are a lot of programs around town, but none we can afford. Our children have nothing in this town. We are continuously building parks around town. What is being built for teenagers and young adults? I’m tired of our community failing our kids.”

 

More on the story: https://www.nj.com/hudson/2024/04/former-hoboken-high-two-sport-star-is-shot-dead.html

WABC News: https://abc7ny.com/hoboken-deadly-shooting-nj-man-killed-in-1st-homicide-since-2022/14742222/

Damon Murray 
Photo: Scott Fayok- NJ Advance media