Newark Arts High School

Newark Arts High School is a four-year magnet public high school, serving students in Ninth through twelfth grades in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools. The school is located in the University Heights section of Newark. Starting in 2011-12, the 7th graders of William Brown Academy were housed there as its venue was being built. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 601 students and 52.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1. There were 387 students (64.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 84 (14.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 248th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 240th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 205th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 154th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 186th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. History Arts High School opened its doors to students in September 1931 as the first public high school in the United States specializing in the visual and performing arts.