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Union Catholic Regional High School

Scotch Plains · NJ · Catholic religious-affiliated

Private
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📖18 AP courses

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 18 AP courses offered (school profile)
  • 🏆 2 National Merit Semifinalists last year
Academic signals
  • 📝 SAT avg 1320 (25-75: 1260–1390)
  • 📝 ACT avg 29.0 (25-75: 27–31)
  • 📚 AP exam pass rate 80.0% (avg score 3.9)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, the school's own published profile, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Union Catholic Regional High School compares for families

What families should know about Union Catholic Regional High School.

  • LocallyNJ students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+12 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Union County Magnet High School, Academy For Allied Health Sciences, Academy For Performing Arts and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 806 in 2018 to 588 in 2022 — over 4 years.
-27.0%
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 Union Catholic Regional High School's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.unioncatholic.org/admissions ↗

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -7.6%/year, projecting from 2022's 588 students:

2023
543
2025
464
2027
396

≈ 192 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 192 students projected to be lost by 2027 represent ≈ $3,072,000/year in tuition at risk.

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

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Union County Magnet High School
SCOTCH PLAINS
Public 0.6 297 -3.6%
Academy For Allied Health Sciences
SCOTCH PLAINS
Public 0.6 308 -0.3%
Academy For Performing Arts
SCOTCH PLAINS
Public 0.6 242 +3.4%
Union County Career & Technical Institute
Scotch Plains
Public 0.6 67
Union County Tech
SCOTCH PLAINS
Public 0.6 502 -2.3%
Academy For Information Technology
SCOTCH PLAINS
Public 0.6 307 +7.0%
UNION REGIONAL SCHOOL
Scotch Plains
Public 0.7 7
Newmark High School
Scotch Plains
Private 1.3 68 -5.6%

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