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Hoboken High School- Hoboken, NJ  In 2015  a new superintendent was hired by the Hoboken Board of Education and inherited a high school ranked 212th in the bi-annual NJ Monthly ranking of New Jersey High Schools.   Jump ahead a few years and t he 2018 NJ Monthly rankings of 305 Public High Schools have been released . The rankings are comprehensive, using sound statistical and psychometric weightings to objectively evaluate the quality of high schools in NJ. Charter schools are public schools— free to all students who attend—and are included among the 305 ranked high schools.  Click to Enlarge  Hoboken High School is now ranked 260th out of New Jersey’s 305 public high schools. The NJ Monthly Report indicates that the school has an 8:1 student-teacher ratio (among the lowest in the state), offers 11 AP/IB courses, and about 40% of student take at least one art course. Unfortunately, the data also indicates that only 15% of the student scored at or above 530 of the Math SAT ( 53rd perce

T he following are a portion of the public comments that were made at the  October 9, 2018 meeting of the Hoboken Board of Education by a former parent and concerned citizen as well as a response to the comments. The issue at hand relates around Black and  Latino/a students in the Hoboken School District.  TRANSCRIPT: Citizen: Where does Hoboken Public School District Stack Up in a state that is the 6th most segregated  school system in the country and the 4th most segregated amongst students with disabilities : 1.) The racial achievement gap is three times wider than the state average 2.) Connors Elementary school is the Jim Crow School and the Middle and High School uses  classroom segregation and racial tracking. 3.) The District has failed every stress test in equity, student progress, and college and   career readiness according to the NJ Department of Education and all third party   assessments 4.) The District is cooking the books on high school graduation rates by abusing cr

The 2018 New Jersey PARCC scores were released earlier this month . The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a consortium of states that collaboratively developed a common set of assessments to measure student achievement and preparedness for college and careers.  A full analysis is forthcoming but here are the scores for Middle and High School Mathematics for the Hoboken School District.  7th Grade Mathematics Score: 721 Rank: 485 out of 505 NJ Schools  8th Grade Mathematics Score: 701 Rank: 454 out of 473 NJ Schools  Algebra I Score: 722 Rank: 472 out of 509 NJ Schools  Geometry Score: 720 Rank: 280 out of 332 NJ Schools  Algebra II Score: 714 Rank: 214 out of 315 NJ Schools   These scores triangulate with past years PARCC scores as well as a recent low ranking of Hoboken High School by the New Jersey Department of Education in which the school scored a 22.7 out of 100 and ranked in the 17th percentile of high schools in the state  and 8 stra