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Public school / High

Simon Youth Academy

Elizabeth, New Jersey

NCES ID
341804003397
District
Union County Vocational-Technical School District
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

Simon Youth Academy is a public high school in Elizabeth, New Jersey, run by Union County Vocational-Technical School District. It enrols 23 students — the 94061st largest of 2,585 public schools in New Jersey.

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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

23students

94061st nationally, tied with 103

Free or reduced-price lunch

13.0%percent

81541st nationally, tied with 81

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.

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.

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Within Union County Vocational-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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Union County Tech511 students
  2. 2Academy for Allied Health Sciences303 students
  3. 3Union County Magnet High School303 students
  4. 4Academy for Information Technology297 students
  5. 5Academy for Performing Arts231 students
  6. 6Simon Youth Academy23 students
  7. 7Union County Career & Technical Institute17 students
  8. 8Raymond J. Lesniak Experience Strength & Hope Recovery Hs2 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New Jersey median across 2,585 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−95.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−52.6%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.