Link Community School, Newark, NJ -- Private Middle School -- School Overview

Link Community School
120 Livingston Street
Newark, NJ 07103
Tel 973-642-0529
Fax 973-642-1978
admission@linkschool.org
development@linkschool.org

School Overview

Today, Link continues to fulfill its original purpose: to provide Newark adolescents, at a crucial time in their lives, an exceptional middle school experience aimed at ensuring their long-term success. Link's approach continues to have great success in overcoming the significant challenges our urban youth face in achieving their potential.

Link currently enrolls approximately 128 seventh- and eighth-grade students, primarily of African-American descent, who come from low-income families. The school employs a unique balanced admissions policy, selecting a cross-section of students who are below grade level, at grade level, and above grade level, to ensure that Link positively impacts students of all academic abilities. Link provides a rigorous high school preparatory education in a setting that emphasizes community, challenges students academically and instills core values. Link's commitment to our students' learning is reflected in our small classes of 16 or fewer students and student-to-teacher ratio of 9:1. The tremendous commitment of Link's faculty, staff, parents and trustees to our students' education underlies each student's personal success.

To ensure that any family can afford Link's education, we ask families to pay a nominal contribution for their child's education. As a result, Link depends upon the generous support of our partners to make our students' education possible. Gifts to Link provide approximately 85% of the school's operating revenue.

Link's success has been measured by the changed lives of over 2,000 students, many of whom have attributed their personal success to the life-changing experience they had at Link. Link places its graduates in some of the finest independent schools in the mid-Atlantic region as well as leading parochial and magnet high schools in the Newark area. 100% of the past 9 graduating classes (1999-2008) were accepted into quality private high schools of their choice.