New Jersey's High Schools (State Card)
Updated Oct 2010 - State cards provide a statistical snapshot of high schools for each state in the nation and the District of Columbia. The cards include economic information, data on high school graduation and college completion rates, academic achievement, and states’ progress in building a longitudinal data system. Where applicable, statewide numbers are compared to the national average and include national rankings.

Education and the Economy: Boosting New Jersey's Economy by Improving High School Graduation Rates (State Profile)
Mar 2011 - Cutting the high school dropout rate in half for just one class would likely lead to billions of dollars in increased earnings, provide a boost to home and automobile sales, and create more than 50,000 new jobs nationwide, according to a study released by the Alliance for Excellent Education and funded by State Farm®. These findings demonstrate the economic benefits the nation—as well as each state—would likely see if its number of high school dropouts was cut in half. The state profiles estimate the potential gains in important factors including individual earnings, home and auto sales, job growth, overall economic growth, spending and investment, tax revenue, and human capitol.

Accelerating the College and Career Readiness of New Jersey's Students (State Card)
Updated May 2011 - In 2009, the Common Core State Standards Initiative was launched with forty-eight states, the District of Columbia, and two territories coming together under the auspices of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to develop a common core of state K–12 English language arts and mathematics standards. Within the last year, forty-four states and the District of Columbia adopted these standards and are now working on implementation. The attached profile captures the progress made in adopting both the common core state standards, subsequent work in ensuring those standards are accompanied by college- and career-ready assessments, and the potential benefits of preparing all students for success in college and a career.

Online Learning: Addressing Challenges and Seizing Opportunities in New Jersey (State Profile)
May 2010 – America’s K–12 education system faces three significant challenges: (1) increased global demands for skilled workers, (2) significant financial shortfalls, and (3) a looming teacher shortage. Online learning offers an opportunity to address these challenges. The "Online Learning: Addressing Challenges and Seizing Opportunities" state profiles present state-specific information about the three challenges and summarizes information about online-learning opportunities and related state and federal policies.

Federal High School Graduation Rate Policies and the Impact on New Jersey
This brief outlines current high school graduation policies in the state and describes how recent regulations from the U.S. Department of Education could impact these policies. It also highlights the state's unique policy concerns and hurdles that must still be addressed.

Potential Economic Impacts of Improved Education on New Jersey
This economic impact fact sheet helps policymakers and the public understand the extent of the economic costs to society of an educational system that serves so many students poorly. It also provides an overview of the potential economic benefits that a state could enjoy were it to invest in a high school system that prepares all high school students for graduation and success after high school.

Understanding New Jersey's High School Graduation Rates
Unacceptably low graduation rates, particularly among poor and minority students, have been obscured for far too long by inaccurate data, calculations, and reporting, and inadequate accountability systems at the state and federal levels. Understanding High School Graduation Rates provides the latest graduation rate statistics, demonstrates graduation gaps between demographic groups, illustrates the discrepancies in graduation rates reported by government and independent sources, and examines the economic costs of dropouts to individuals and society.

Promoting Power
How does your local high school measure up? View the complete list of high schools in your state or congressional district and their Promoting Power.

New Jersey's Ten Largest School Districts
The chart provides graduation rate calculations for the state's ten largest school districts by enrollment. The chart provides an overall graduation rate for the school district and also breaks down graduation rates by student subgroup when available.

Education News from New Jersey

HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS COST NEW JERSEY BILLIONS IN LOST WAGES:
If the nearly 19,000 high school dropouts from the Class of 2008 had earned their diplomas instead of dropping out, New Jersey’s economy would have seen an additional $4.8 billion in wages over these students’ lifetimes. More information and a chart with state-by-state breakdown for all fifty states and the District of Columbia is available at http://www.all4ed.org/files/HighCost.pdf.

NEW JERSEY’S ECONOMY COULD SEE OVER ONE BILLION IN WEALTH ACCUMULATION BY RAISING THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE:
If the high school dropouts who currently head households in New Jersey had earned their diplomas, the state’s economy would have benefited from an additional $1.9 billion in wealth accumulated by families. More information, as well as a chart with state-by-state breakdown for all fifty states and the District of Columbia, is available at http://www.all4ed.org/files/hiddenbenefits.pdf.

NEW JERSEY COULD SAVE MILLIONS IN HEALTH CARE COSTS BY RAISING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES
If all of the students in New Jersey who are estimated to drop out of school this year earn diplomas instead, the state could save more than $259 million over the course of those young people’s lifetimes. More information, as well as a chart with state-by-state breakdown for all fifty states and the District of Columbia, is available at http://www.all4ed.org/files/HandW.pdf.

NEW JERSEY’S ECONOMY WOULD SEE BILLIONS IF THE MINORITY GRADUATION RATE WAS RAISED TO THE LEVEL OF THEIR WHITE CLASSMATES
If New Jersey’s high schools and colleges were to raise the graduation rates of Hispanic, African-American, and Native-American students to the levels of white students by 2020, the potential increase in personal income in the state would add more than $11.3 billion to New Jersey’s economy. More information, as well as a chart with state-by-state breakdown for all fifty states and the District of Columbia, is available at http://www.all4ed.org/files/demography.pdf.

NEW JERSEY SPENDS MILLIONS ANNUALLY ON REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR RECENT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
New Jersey spends over $96 million each year to provide community college remediation education for recent high school graduates who did not acquire the basic skills necessary to succeed in college or at work. More information, as well as a chart with state-by-state breakdown for all fifty states and the District of Columbia, is available at http://www.all4ed.org/files/remediation.pdf.

FIVE PERCENT INCREASE IN MALE GRADUATION RATE COULD SAVE NEW JERSEY MILLIONS IN CRIME-RELATED SPENDING
Were New Jersey to increase the graduation rate and college matriculation of its male students by only 5 percent, the state could see combined savings and revenue of almost $189 million each year. More information, as well as a chart with state-by-state breakdown for all fifty states and the District of Columbia, is available at http://www.all4ed.org/files/SavingFutures.pdf.