The New Jersey Department of Education today granted a final charter to five charter schools to open for the 2017-18 school year.
In order to receive a charter, each charter school applicant team must meet the Department’s rigorous, multi-stage approval process. Once an application is approved, the charter school applicant team must successfully complete the NJDOE’s preparedness review before being granted a final charter and subsequently being allowed to open. This review process is designed to determine whether the charter school applicant team has the structures in place to ensure academic success, equitability, financial viability and organizational soundness.
“By expanding public school options for families, we are ensuring that more New Jersey children have access to the high-quality education they deserve,” said Education Commissioner Kimberley Harrington.
With the opening of these five charter schools, there will be a total of 89 charter schools and 56,416 authorized charter school seats in New Jersey for the 2017-18 school year.
| Charter School
(approved to open in September 2017) |
District(s) Served | Year 1 Grades
(enrollment projection) |
Year 4 Grades
(enrollment projection) |
| Achieve Community Charter School | Newark | K-1
66 students |
K-4
426 students |
| College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Charter School | Asbury Park and Neptune | K-1 and 5-6
197 students |
K-9
961 students |
| College Achieve Paterson Charter School | Paterson | K-1 and 5-6
276 students |
K-9
961 students |
| LEAD Charter School | Newark | 9-12
92 students |
9-12
260 students |
| Ocean Academy Charter School | Lakewood | K-2
160 students |
K-5
340 students |
Where is this school going to be located?
When are all Jewish schools becoming public school by everyone signing up for public school and then getting vouchers?
What exactly is a charter school?
Why on EARTH does Lakewood, NJ, have 89 charter schools when Philadelphia only has 86 charter schools!?!?!?
Lakewood has zero NJ has 89
This charter school is for Spanish children for some reason the charter school for lakeeoodctax payers did not go though…
@john it says STATE of nj. Not Lakewood
a charter school in Lakewood means more tax dollars diverted away from the public schools which are already failing
@LPD- a charter school is a public school run like a private one. It’s govt funded and free, but less limited in teaching styles as long as the kids are learning. In many cases, charter schools do better than public schools around them.