Many of New Jersey's public high schools rose in the ranks this year. The chart may take up to 30 seconds to download using a 28.8 kbps modem.
Few issues resonate as loudly in the Garden State as public education.
Education consistently crops up in statewide polls as among the concerns foremost on New Jerseyans' mind. This level of concern is the reason we devote our September issue to education. For the fifth time, we're publishing our biennial ranking of New Jersey's top public high schools, this year based on a comparison of 309 schools across the state. The good news is that New Jersey schools are performing quite well compared with schools in other states. Among the sixteen states and the District of Columbia where at least 60 percent of students take the SAT, New Jersey ranks seventh in overall test score, with students averaging 498 on the verbal test and 510 on the math test.