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Unsafe School Choice Option (USCO)
The Unsafe School Choice Option (USCO), authorized under Section 8532 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), requires each state receiving ESEA funds to establish and implement a statewide policy ensuring that a student who attends a persistently dangerous public elementary or secondary school, or who becomes a victim of a violent criminal offense while in or on the grounds of the public school the student attends, is offered the opportunity to transfer to a safe public school within the district.
List of Persistently Dangerous Schools Designated under the USCO Policy
No schools were designated as "persistently dangerous schools" for the school year(s) indicated:
- 2024-25
- 2023-24
- 2022-23
- 2021-22
- 2020-21
- 2019-20
- 2018-19
- 2017-18
- 2016-17
- 2015-16
- 2014-15
- 2013-14
- 2012-13
- 2011-12
- 2010-11
- 2009-10
- 2007-08
The schools listed below were designated as "persistently dangerous schools" only for the school year(s) indicated.
- 2008-2009
- Plainfield High School (Plainfield City S.D.)
- 2006-2007
- East Side High School (Paterson City S.D.)
- Trenton Central High School (Trenton City S.D.)
- 2005-2006
- Solve D'Ippolito Intermediate School (Vineland S.D.)
- Grace A. Dunn Middle School (Trenton City S.D.)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School (Trenton City S.D.)
- Trenton Central High School (Trenton City S.D.)
- 2004-2005
- Atlantic City High School (Atlantic City S.D.)
- Bonsall Elementary School (Camden S.D.)
- Camden High School (Camden S.D.)
- East Camden Middle School (Camden S.D.)
- South Camden Alternative School (Camden S.D.)
- Patrick F. Healy Middle School (East Orange S.D.)
- Lincoln High School (Jersey City S.D.)
- Samuel L. Berliner School (Newark City S.D.)
- Grace A. Dunn Middle School (Trenton City S.D.)
- Solve D'Ippolito Intermediate School (Vineland S.D.)