High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
East Side High School, Newark, NJ
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 2,046
- Teachers (FTE)
- 134.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.3
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 15.6. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 238 Van Buren St, Newark, NJ 07105
- Phone
- (973)465-4900
- District
- Newark Public School District
- County
- Essex County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Large
- NCES school ID
- 341134002194
School meals
- Free lunch
- 1,350
- Reduced-price lunch
- 229
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 1,57977.2% 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.
Related schools
Other high schools in Newark Public School District
- Barringer High School 1,894 students
- Central High School 1,051 students
- Science Park High School 964 students
- Technology High School 662 students
- Arts High School 611 students
- Weequahic High School 592 students
- Newark Vocational High School 591 students
- West Side High School 541 students
- Malcolm X Shabazz High School 531 students
- University High School 426 students
- Newark Sch of Data Science and Information Technology 414 students
- Bard Early College High School 395 students
High schools elsewhere in Newark
- Essex County Donald M. Payne Sr. School of Technology Essex County Schools of Technology
- Essex Co Jdc Essex Co Jdc
- Essex Rch Office of Education Juvenile Justice Commission
- Northern State Prison Office of Educational Services Department of Corrections
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
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.