The following is a list of schools of the Archdiocese of Newark. As of the Fall of 1987, there were 40 high schools and 187 elementary schools in the four counties of the archdiocese. At the start of the school year in 2023, there were 22 high schools and 49 elementary schools. As of April 2025, the archdiocese operates 67 Catholic elementary and secondary schools enrolling nearly 22,000 students in Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Union counties.
K-12 schools Essex County Lacordaire Academy (Upper Montclair) St. Benedict's Preparatory School (Newark) Co-ed Elementary Division (K-6) and Middle School Division (7-8) added in 2017 with takeover of St. Mary School. Girls prep division (9-12) added in 2020 with closure of Benedictine Academy, Elizabeth. Union County Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child (Summit)
7-12 schools Hudson County St. Dominic Academy (Jersey City) Union County Oratory Preparatory School (Summit)
High schools Bergen CountyBergen County Catholic High Schools , Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. Accessed June 22, 2020.
Academy of the Holy Angels (Demarest) Bergen Catholic High School (Oradell) Don Bosco Preparatory High School (Ramsey) Immaculate Conception High School (Lodi) Immaculate Heart Academy (Washington Township) Paramus Catholic High School (Paramus) St. Joseph Regional High School (Montvale) St. Mary High School (Rutherford)
Essex CountyEssex County Catholic High Schools , Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. Accessed June 22, 2020. Mount Saint Dominic Academy (Caldwell) St. Benedict's Prep (Newark) (see K-12 above) St. Vincent Academy (Newark) Seton Hall Preparatory School (West Orange)
Hudson CountyHudson County Catholic High Schools, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. Accessed June 22, 2020. Hudson Catholic Regional High School (Jersey City) (nearly closed in 2008 but went co-ed and got a reprieve) St. Peter's Preparatory School (Jersey City) Kenmare High School* (Jersey City) * Alternative school financially independent of archdiocese.
Union CountyUnion County Catholic High Schools, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. Accessed June 22, 2020. Mother Seton Regional High School (Clark) Roselle Catholic High School (Roselle) - merged with Girls Catholic High School, Roselle, in 1983 Union Catholic Regional High School (Scotch Plains) - the separately run boys and girls schools were merged in 1979
K-8 schools Bergen County Academy of the Most Blessed Sacrament (Franklin Lakes) Academy of Our Lady (Glen Rock) Academy of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Tenafly) Academy of Our Lady of Grace (Fairview) Academy of St Paul (Ramsey) Formerly known as St. Paul School and St. Paul Interparochial School Christ the Teacher Academy (Interparochial) (Fort Lee) The churches sponsoring the school are: Holy Trinity and Madonna in Fort Lee, Epiphany in Cliffside Park, and Holy Rosary in Edgewater. does not list Epiphany Church as it had not yet merged. Also see: which lists the associated parishes. It occupies the former facility of the Madonna Catholic School. Epiphany joined after Epiphany School merged into Christ the Teacher in 2005. Corpus Christi School (PreK-8) (Hasbrouck Heights) Notre Dame Academy (Interparochial) (Palisades Park) Our Lady of Mercy Academy (Interparochial) (Park Ridge) Queen of Peace School (North Arlington) Sacred Heart School (Lyndhurst) St. Elizabeth School (Wyckoff) St. John Academy (Interparochial) (Hillsdale) St. Joseph School (Oradell) St. Leo's School (Elmwood Park) St. Peter Academy (River Edge)
Essex County Newark St. Benedict's Prep School Elementary Division (see K-12 schools above) St. Michael School Other municipalities Good Shepherd Academy (Nutley) Our Lady of the Lake School (Verona) Our Lady of Sorrows School (South Orange) St. Catherine of Siena School (Cedar Grove) St. Joseph School (East Orange) St. Peter School (Belleville) St. Rose of Lima Academy (Short Hills) St. Thomas the Apostle School (Bloomfield) St. Cassian School (Upper Montclair)
Hudson County Jersey City Our Lady of Czestochowa School, also known as the OLC School, had about 480 students in 2017. It opened a second campus for grades 3–8 in the Boys & Girls Club of Hudson County building in 2018 to accommodate additional students, as its enrollment was 540 in August 2018. The Great Futures Charter High School, which previously operated out of the Boys & Girls Club building, dissolved earlier that year, allowing OLC to take space in the building. Sacred Heart School St. Aloysius Elementary Academy St. Joseph School St. Nicholas School Union City St. Francis Academy
Other municipalities Academy of St. Joseph of the Palisades (West New York) All Saints Catholic Academy (Bayonne) - It was a merger of four Catholic schools and was established on July 1, 2008 in the ex-Saint Mary, Star of the Sea site. The building was repurposed to house a consolidated student body, with a preschool room designated from the former kindergarten facility. It was to house students associated with the eight Catholic churches in the municipality, and the archdiocese classified it as a "Deanery school". The school opened on September 3, 2008. At the time of opening over 500 students attended, with about 450 in grades Kindergarten through 8 and the remainder in preschool. At the time it had 22 teachers, five teaching aides, and three other employees. The predecessor schools in early 2008 had a combined total of 750-800 students. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark announced in September 2007 that it would combine Bayonne's four remaining Catholic elementary schools — Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Bayonne, New Jersey), Saint Andrew, Saint Vincent and Saint Mary, Star of the Sea — into a single school in response to 10 years of declining enrollments in the schools. Sister Eileen Jude Wust was selected to serve as the school's principal. In 2017 ASCA was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School."All Saints Catholic Academy - Bayonne, NJ", National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, U.S. Department of Education Hoboken Catholic Academy (Hoboken) Its students are in Hoboken and Weehawken. A consolidation of existing Catholic schools, it was formerly co-sponsored by four Hoboken churches, Our Lady of Grace, St. Ann, St. Francis, and Sts. Peter and Paul, along with St. Lawrence Church in Hoboken, before the archdiocese's Lighting the Way program changed the allocation of money for schools in the archdiocese.
Union County The Academy of Our Lady of Peace (New Providence) - The school was once a winner of the National Blue Ribbon Award. The archdiocese spent, each year, $277,000 to fund the school. In 2020 the archdiocese announced it would close in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response members of the school community started a fundraising drive to try to get it to reopen, and the archdiocese announced it would reopen, with the congregation taking financial control. Holy Trinity School (Westfield) Koinonia Academy (Plainfield) Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child Lower School (Summit) (private school not directly operated by the archdiocese) St. Bartholomew Academy (Scotch Plains) St. John the Apostle School (Clark) St. Joseph the Carpenter School (Roselle) St. Michael School (Cranford) St. Michael School (Union) St. Teresa of Avila School (Summit) St. Theresa School (Kenilworth)
Early childhood centers Assumption Early Childhood Center (Emerson) - Formerly Assumption Academy, it was a full PK-8 school. In 2008 it had 171 students in its K-8 program. This decreased to 157 in 2011 and 137 in 2012. The 1-8 grades closed in 2012 and it became only a preschool and kindergarten.
Former schools The archdiocese closed nine schools in the period from 1989 to 1995. From 1999 to 2014 the student body decreased to only 60% of the initial total. In 2005 seven schools consolidated and/or closed.
From 1998 to 2008 the archdiocese closed about 25% of its schools. Three more schools were shuttered and an additional seven merged in 2009. In 2010 and 2012 it closed six elementary schools each. In addition, in the latter year, one high school was closed and one PK-8 school became preschool/kindergarten only. The 2012 closures were influenced by the schools taking funds from their congregations while their enrollment numbers declined. In 2014 the archdiocese four elementary schools, with one in each of its counties; after those closures it had 70 elementary schools remaining. In 2020 it closed one high school and nine K-8 schools due to a decrease in enrollments.
Circa 2008 the archdiocese considered 225 to be the minimal optimal enrollment for a K-8 school.
Former high schools Bergen County Queen of Peace High School (North Arlington) closed 2017 St. Cecilia High School (Englewood) closed 1986
Essex County Christ the King Preparatory School, later Cristo Rey Newark High School (Newark) closed 2020 Essex Catholic High School (East Orange) closed 2003 Immaculate Conception High School (Montclair) closed 2025 Marylawn of the Oranges High School (South Orange) Our Lady of Good Counsel High School (Newark) closed 2006
Hudson County Academy of St. Aloysius (Jersey City) closed 2006 Academy of the Sacred Heart (Hoboken) closed 2006 Caritas Academy (Jersey City) closed 2008. Was a merger of the Academy of St. Aloysius of Jersey City and Sacred Heart of Hoboken. Holy Family Academy (Bayonne) closed 2013 Holy Rosary Academy (Union City) Marist High School (Bayonne) closed 2020 St. Aloysius High School (Jersey City) closed 2007 St. Anthony High School (Jersey City) closed 2017 St. Cecilia (Kearny) closed 1982 St. Joseph of the Palisades High School (West New York) closed 2009 St. Mary High School (Jersey City) closed 2011 St. Michael's High School (Union City) closed by 1989
Union County Benedictine Academy (Elizabeth) closed 2020 - resurrected as a girls division of St. Benedict's Prep, Newark, in 2020 Girls Catholic High School (Roselle) merged with Roselle Catholic High School - formerly all boys - in 1983 Sacred Heart High School (Elizabeth) closed 1969 St. Mary of the Assumption High School (Elizabeth) closed 2019 St. Patrick High School (Elizabeth) closed 2012 (a new non-Catholic incarnation, The Patrick School, opened in 2012 and operates in Hillside)
Former K-8 schools Bergen County (former) Schools include: Academy of Saint Therese of Lisieux, formerly St. Therese School (Cresskill) - Closed 2020 Annunciation School (Paramus) Merged in 1991 with Sacred Heart of Rochelle Park and Our Lady of the Visitation of Paramus into Visitation Academy; closed 2025 Ascension School (New Milford) Epiphany School (Cliffside Park) - Merged into Christ the Teacher School in 2005. Garfield Catholic Academy (Garfield) Holy Family Interparochial School (Norwood) Holy Trinity School (Hackensack) Most Sacred Heart of Jesus School (Wallington) - It closed in 2014. Circa 2004-2014 the archdiocese spent more than $3 million to keep the school in operation. Mother Cabrini Interparochial School (Lodi) Notre Dame Interparochial Primary School (Ridgefield) Our Lady of the Assumption School (Wood-Ridge) - It closed in 2010. Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Ridgewood) - Merged with St. Catharine School, Glen Rock, to become Academy of Our Lady Sacred Heart (Rochelle Park) - Merged in 1991 with Annunciation and Our Lady of the Visitation of Paramus into Visitation Academy; closed 2025 St. Anne School (Fair Lawn) - Closed 2020 St. Catharine School (Glen Rock) - Merged with Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Ridgewood, to become Academy of Our Lady St. Cecilia Interparochial School (Englewood) St. Elizabeth Seton Interparochial School (Fair Lawn) St. Francis School (Hackensack) St. Francis of Assisi School (Ridgefield Park) - It closed in 2010. St. John School (Leonia) St. John the Evangelist School (Bergenfield) St. Joseph School (East Rutherford) - closed in 2010. St. Joseph/Sacred Heart School (Demarest)