Middle · Regular · Grades 4 to 8

Discovery Charter School, Newark, NJ

Charter schoolDiscovery Charter School is a public middle school in Newark, part of Discovery Charter School. It enrolled 99 students in 2024-25, with 16.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 99
Teachers (FTE): 6.0
Students per teacher: 16.5
Grades: 4 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 16.5. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.5

District16.5

New Jersey11.7

United States15.3

School details

Address: 240 Halsey St 2nd Fl., Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973)623-0222
District: Discovery Charter School
County: Essex County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: Yes
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Large
NCES school ID: 340002000282

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 75
Reduced-price lunch: 9
Free or reduced-price lunch: 8484.8% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.