New Jersey
This massive N.J. school has 3,300 students. See your high school’s enrollment.
It’s back to school time in New Jersey, and that means students will soon be reuniting with friends they haven’t seen all summer. But in some of New Jersey’s largest high schools, there might be more strangers than friends.
The average enrollment for high schools in the Garden State is just over 1,000 students, according to an NJ Advance Media analysis of data from the 2022-23 school year, the most recently available data. (See how large your high school is in the chart below.)
The state’s largest high school, Passaic County Technical Institute in Wayne, had 3,302 students in 2022-23. That top spot could be challenged in future rankings with the opening this year of the $283.8 million Perth Amboy High School, with a projected enrollment of 3,300 students.