Public school / High
Columbia High School
Maplewood, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 341533002422
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Columbia High School is a public high school in Maplewood, New Jersey, run by South Orange-Maplewood School District. It enrols 1,930 students — the 2033rd largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,930
Teachers
150.0
Students per teacher
12.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
15.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within South Orange-Maplewood School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Columbia High School1,930 students
- 2South Orange Middle School770 students
- 3Maplewood Middle School721 students
- 4South Mountain Elementary School618 students
- 5Tuscan Elementary School577 students
- 6Clinton Elementary School550 students
- 7Marshall Elementary School475 students
- 8Delia Bolden Elementary School448 students
- Enrollment+314.6%
- Teachers+294.7%
- Students per teacher+14.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−44.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory