Public school / High
Piscataway Magnet School
Piscataway, New Jersey
- NCES ID
- 341008003426
- School type
- Vocational
- Title I
- Not designated
Piscataway Magnet School is a public high school in Piscataway, New Jersey, run by Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District. It enrols 647 students — the 22862nd 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
647
Teachers
59.0
Students per teacher
11.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
63.4%
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 Middlesex County Vocational and Technical 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.
- 1East Brunswick Magnet School733 students
- 2Piscataway Magnet School647 students
- 3Woodbridge Academy Magnet School286 students
- 4Perth Amboy Magnet School264 students
- 5Edison Academy Magnet School175 students
- Enrollment+39.0%
- Teachers+55.3%
- Students per teacher−2.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+131.4%
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