These statistics were grouped into three categories. Each category was given equal weight in the rankings.The categories used in the rankings are:
1. School Environment: The sum of the standardized scores for average class size; student-to-faculty ratio; student-to-computer ratio; percentage of faculty with advanced degrees; and number of AP tests offered compared to the total number of juniors and seniors (a calculation designed to avoid penalizing smaller schools).
2. Student Performance: The sum of the standardized scores for average combined SAT score; percentage of students achieving advanced proficiency on HSPA; and students scoring a 3 or higher on AP tests as a percentage of all juniors and seniors.
3. Student Outcomes: A single combined score of graduation rate multiplied by the percentage of graduates going on to post-secondary education. Those going on to a 4-year college were given a weight of 1.5, those going to a 2-year college were given a weight of 1, and those going to other colleges or post-secondary schools were given a weight of .67.Other New Jersey Report Card statistics that were not part of the ranking calculation include the percentage of students taking the SAT; the two-year change in SAT scores; the percentage of all eligible students taking an AP test; and the percentage of graduates going directly into a job or the military after high school.
- McNair Academic (Jersey City)
- Tenafly
- Millburn
- Montgomery
- Mountain Lakes
- Glen Rock
- Northern Highlands Regional (Allendale)
- Pascack Hills
- West Windsor--Plainsboro South
- Glen Ridge
- Ridge (Bernards Twp.)
- Chatham
- Princeton
- Livingston
- Cresskill
- Northern Valley Regional (Demarest)
- Haddonfield Memorial
- West Windsor--Plainsboro North
- Holmdel
- Summit
- Governor Livingston (Berkeley Heights)
- Westfield
- Pascack Valley (Hillsdale)
- Ridgewood
- Northern Valley Regional (Old Tappan)
- New Providence
- Ramsey
- Ramapo (Franklin Lakes)
- West Morris Mendham
- Voorhees (Lebanon Twp.)
- Highland Park
- Randolph
- Rumson -- Fair Haven
- West Essex (North Caldwell)
- Kinnelon
- Indian Hills (Oakland)
- Northern Hunterdon Regional (Clinton Twp.)
- Watchung Hills Regional
- Cranford
- Park Ridge
- West Morris Central (Chester)
- Cherry Hill East
- James Caldwell (West Caldwell)
- Jonathan Dayton (Springfield)
- Paramus
- Mahwah
- Verona
- Madison
- Montville
- Bernards (Bernardsville)
- Emerson
- Hanover Park
- Science (Newark)
- Whippany Park
- Cedar Grove
- Metuchen
- Hunterdon Central (Flemington)
- Eastern Regional (Voorhees)
- Hopewell Valley Central (Pennington)
- East Brunswick
- River Dell Regional (Oradell)
- Fair Lawn
- Moorestown
- Scotch Plains -- Fanwood
- Morristown
- Midland Park
- Leonia
- Point Pleasant Beach
- Oecan Twp.
- Wayne Hills
- Morris Knolls (Denville)
- Wayne Valley
- Sparta
- Somerville
- South Brunswick
- Marlboro
- Haddon Twp.
- Pequannock Twp.
- Columbia (Maplewood)
- Delaware Valley Regional (Alexandria)
- Westwood
- J.P. Stevens (Edison)
- Bridgewater-Raritan
- Parsippany
- Middletown South
- New Milford
- Parsippany Hills
- Rutherford
- Red Bank Regional
- Montclair
- Arthur L. Johnson (Clark)
- Hasbrouck Heights
- Ocean City
- Shore Regional (West Long Branch)
- Freehold Borough
- Waldwick
- Ridgefield Memorial
- West Orange
- Fort Lee
- Hillsborough
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