Newark Arts High School
Newark Arts High School is a four-year magnet public high school, serving students in grades 9 through 12 in Newark, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Newark Public Schools. The school is located in the University Heights area of Newark.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 697 students and 46.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.2.[1]
The school was the 186th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.[2]
Notable alumni
- Savion Glover (born 1973), actor, tap dancer and choreographer.
- Wayne Shorter (born 1933), jazz composer and saxophonist.
References
- ^ Newark Arts High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed August 10, 2008.
- ^ Top High Schools 101-200, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006, posted January 28, 2008. Accessed August 9, 2008.