St Peters Preparatory School

Jersey City · NJ · Catholic religious-affiliated

Private

📖22 AP courses 🏅5 National Merit Semifinalists

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 22 AP courses offered (school profile)
  • 🏆 5 National Merit SemifinalistsRoughly the top 1% of PSAT scorers in each state — about 16,000 juniors nationally. A useful gauge of a school's academic top end. (2024)
Academic signals
  • 📝 SAT avg 1360 (25-75: 1300–1430)
  • 📝 ACT avg 30 (25-75: 28–32)
  • 📚 AP exam pass rate 82% (avg score 4.0)

Composed from the school's own published profile (2024), and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How St Peters Preparatory School compares for families

Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.

  • NationallySAT mean 1360 (≈ top 6% of US test-takers) · ACT mean 30.0 (≈ top 10%) · 82% AP pass rate (US average: ~60%) · 5 National Merit Semifinalists last year (NMSF is the top 1% of US PSAT scorers).
  • LocallyNJ students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+12 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Hudson Catholic Regional High School, St Dominic Academy, Phillips Global Institute and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🏛️ Your state's public flagship

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

65%
admit rate
$17,929
in-state tuition/yr · $37,441 out-of-state
1270–1480
SAT 25–75 · ACT 28–33

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $24,406/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

See the full Rutgers University-New Brunswick profile → Estimate your odds with your scores →

Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 947 in 2018 to 908 in 2022 — over 4 years.
-4.1%
Why only 3 data points?

Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.

For a more current snapshot, see St Peters Preparatory School's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.spprep.org/admissions/school-profile ↗

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -1.0%/year, projecting from 2022's 908 students:

2023
899
2025
880
2027
862

≈ 46 fewer students by 2027 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue at risk

At tuition per student, the 46 students projected to be lost by 2027 represent ≈ $736,000/year in tuition at risk.

Tuition is an editable estimate (PSS doesn't publish tuition) — set it to your school's figure.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Hudson Catholic Regional High School
Jersey City
Private 1.6 512 +4.1%
St Dominic Academy
Jersey City
Private 1.9 211 -17.3%
Phillips Global Institute
Jc
Private 2.3 10
Tet Christian Academy
Jersey City
Private 3.1 17
Miftaahul Uloom Academy
Union City
Private 3.2 89 -41.4%
Rising Star Academy
Union City
Private 4.6 216 +0.0%
Immaculate Conception High School
Lodi
Private 10.8 132 -38.9%
Immaculate Conception High School
Montclair
Private 11.6 246

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