New Jersey Department of Education

Unsafe School Choice Option (USCO)

The Unsafe School Choice Option (USCO) (section 9532 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001) requires that each State receiving funds under the ESEA establish and implement a statewide policy requiring that students attending a persistently dangerous public elementary or secondary school, or students who become victims of a violent criminal offense while in or on the grounds of a public school that they attend, be allowed to attend a safe public school.

List of Persistently Dangerous Schools Designated under the USCO Policy

No schools were designated as "persistently dangerous schools" for the school year(s) indicated:

  • 2020-21
  • 2019-20
  • 2018-19
  • 2017-18
  • 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.)
  • 004-2005
    • 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.)

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