Berkeley Heights 2023-2024 NJ School Performance Report Drill Down
How each Berkeley Heights School measured up on the 2023-2024 NJ Performance Reports The recently published 2023-2024 NJ School Performance Report reveals a mixed academic recovery for Berkeley Heights, shaped not only by the pandemic but also by years of inconsistent leadership and problematic board governance. Student proficiency in Math and English Language Arts (ELA) has shown modest improvement—Math rising...
2025 7-District Dashboard – NJ School Performance Report Comparisons
NJ School Performance Report Comparisons for Berkeley Heights, New Providence, Millburn, Westfield, Chatham, Madison and Summit. The following analysis draws on the newly released New Jersey School Performance Reports for the 2023–2024 school year. It highlights trends in student proficiency across English Language Arts, Math, and Science, while also examining other key indicators such as student growth, chronic absenteeism, and...
Concentrated Influence: Following the Money in NJ Politics (2019–2024) Part 1
State Level Data and Insights Last year, NJ21st published a multi-part series tracking the flow of grey money into County Committees between 2019 and 2023 — helping clarify how more than $50 million from non-individual entities, like PACs, moved through the county networks. This year, we’ve built a more robust infrastructure to collect, clean, and analyze a more complete dataset....
Fewer Borrowers, Heavier Load: New Jersey’s Student Debt Paradox
When it comes to student debt, New Jersey paints a complicated picture—one that’s often overshadowed by larger states like California and Texas. While New Jersey has significantly fewer borrowers overall, the average burden each borrower carries is among the highest in the country. Based on US DOE Data, New Jersey reports approximately 1.23 million student loan borrowers, far fewer than:...
NJ21st Interactive Property Tax Dashboard
The NJ21st Property Tax Dashboard helps residents explore and compare local property tax data across New Jersey. With this tool, you can: Compare your town’s 2024 average school, municipal, county, and total tax payments to those of other towns and cities. View trends from 2019 to 2024 to see how your town’s average tax payments have changed over time—side-by-side with...
New Jersey & Union County Property Tax Trends: 2019–2024
The Department of Community Affairs published it’s annual Property Tax Report. Excel files were merged from 2019-2024 and Google Colab was used to assist in cleaning the data, applying uniformity to the tables and creating the graphs. What the Data Tells us about the State as a Whole Based on verified statewide municipal tax data, this report provides a comprehensive...
If Given the Choice, Would Private Schools Really Be A Better Deal for Berkeley Heights?
Given the high per-pupil cost of Berkeley Heights Public Schools (BHPSNJ) and ongoing discussions about declining enrollment despite rising expenses, I wanted to end the 2025 Budget series by seeing how BHPSNJ stacks up against private schools in terms of cost. I selected five private K-8 schools and five private high schools to compare their tuition costs with BHPSNJ’s reported...
7- District Budget Comparisons – All The Snaphots 2025
7- District Budget Comparisons – All The Snaphots 2025 Berkeley Heights, Chatham, Madison, Millburn, New Providence, Summit & Westfield Articles About these Charts Can Be Found Here Subscribe to NJ21st For Free
Spreadsheet of Vendors Approved by Town Council and Contributions to NJ Political Campaigns
Over the past two weeks we’ve published several articles on the three Town Council Meetings to date that involved a whirlwind of Agendas, Resolutions and the Dissolution of the Local Ethics Board. We have compiled a spreadsheet that provides a quick reference that will be updated after each Council Meeting and is available on our Resource Page Link to 2025...
Solution to GLHS GPA Issue Potentially Impacting College Admissions
As a result of concerns and questions our community had in connection to our article on Governor Livingston/College GPA Conversion, Dan created a tool that demonstrates: How your GLHS Student’s Grades could look like to colleges today How Students from other High Schools with Similar Grades would Look How your Students Grades would Look under Dan’s 4- point Scale that...
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