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June 2024)
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Do you research school records? I’m not talking about yearbooks. Those can be found on the Yearbooks Page. I’m talking about actual school records, such as enrollment, attendance, and grade reports for example. These are interesting source documents because they might record the student’s age, birth date and location, and possibly their parents’ names. All great ways to find this information if you haven’t found them in other documents about your target ancestor. Besides, finding out your grandmother’s grades would be interesting!
The record collection links, listed below, feature school records from the state, and list collections of records that are available for free online.
If you wish to get educated with some basic information regarding what is available and how to navigate your research for school records, you can read these summaries:
- 5 Quick Tips to Get the Most Out of Education Records
- Top 10 Strategies for Finding School Records for Genealogy
- Getting Started With School Records for Genealogy Research
So, what types of records related to schools are maintained and often available?
- School Census
- School Catalogs
- Teacher’s Registers
- Attendance Records
- Report Cards
- Class Logs
- Teacher Rosters
- School Board Meetings/Reports
- Academic Team and Class Photos
- Local Newspaper Articles:
- Graduation Lists
- School Activities
- School Sports
- Student Newspapers
- Alumni Directories and Publications
- Yearbooks
- Yearbook Indexes
And, what types of information can you derive from these school records?
- Name (often includes a middle name which is useful).
- Age
- Physical Characteristics – color/race, disability.
- Birth Date
- Current Residence Address
- Name of Father
- Name of Mother
- Occupations of parents
- Grades
- Classes Taken
- Activities (from Photos)
- Date left school (can help with family residence relocation)
Below is a list of links to free online school record collections for the state;
Note: Some of the links go to sites with not much information and some go to sites with an extensive set of records.
Note: Some links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.
New Jersey School Records
- Bergen County, Saint Luke’s High School; 1941 Senior Class
- Bergen County, Tenafly High School Honor Roll; 1935-1936
- Bergen County, Tenafly High School; 1936 Senior Class
- Bergen County, Tenafly High School; 1938
- Burlington County, Rancocas Valley Regional High School; Senior Class, 1945
- Camden County, St. Mary of the Angels Academy; Class of 1952
- Essex County, Mount Saint Dominic Academy High School, Caldwell; 1960 Senior Class
- Essex County, NJ State Normal School of Montclair; 1926
- Essex County, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School; 1932 Senior Class
- Essex County, Saint Peter’s Commercial High School, Newark; 1928 Graduating Class
- Essex County, St. James High School, Newark; 1942 Senior Class
- Essex County, State Normal School, Newark; 1921 Senior Class
- Essex County, West Orange High School; 1923
- History of Rutgers College, 1766-1924
- History of the College of New Jersey, from its origin in 1746 to the Commencement of 1854
- Hudson County, Academy of Saint Aloysius; 1929 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Academy of Saint Aloysius; 1934 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Academy of Saint Aloysius; 1953 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Academy of Saint Aloysius; 1959 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Academy of Saint Aloysius; 1960 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Academy of Saint Aloysius; 1961 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Academy of Saint Aloysius; 1962 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Academy of Saint Aloysius; 1975 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Academy of the Sacred Heart; 1960 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Bayonne High School; 1934 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Bayonne High School; 1948 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Bayonne Junior College; 1948 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Christ Hospital School of Nursing; 1940 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Demarest High School; 1953 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Demarest High School; 1955 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Dickinson High School; 1913-1976 Graduates
- Hudson County, Dickinson High School; 1924 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Emerson High School; 1926 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Ferris High School; 1937 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Ferris High School; 1957 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Harrison High School; 1953 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Harrison High School; 1964 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Hoboken Academy; 1927 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Holy Family High School; 1962 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Horace Mann Grammar School; 1923 Graduating Class
- Hudson County, Horace Mann School No. 9 (North Bergen); 1935 Graduating Class
- Hudson County, Hudson Catholic High School; 1968 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Jersey City Hospital, School of Nursing; 1924
- Hudson County, Jersey City Junior College; 1951 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Jersey City Medical Center, School of Nursing; 1934
- Hudson County, Kearny High School; 1932 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Kearny High School; 1934 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Kearny High School; 1935 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Kearny High School; 1939 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Lincoln High School; 1981 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Lincoln High School; January 1919 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Lincoln High School; January 1933 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Lincoln High School; January 1935 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Lincoln High School; January 1943 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Lincoln High School; January 1951 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Lincoln High School; June 1919 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Lincoln High School; June 1951 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Marist High School; 1962 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Marist High School; 1964 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Marist High School; 1972 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Memorial High School; 1929 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Our Lady of Sorrows Grade School; Class of 1955
- Hudson County, Sacred Heart Grammar School; 1955 Graduating Class
- Hudson County, Saint Aloysius High School; 1939 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Aloysius High School; 1961 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Anthony High School; 1968 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Cecilia High School; 1947 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Cecilia High School; 1963 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Dominic Academy; 1946 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Dominic Academy; 1962 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Dominic Academy; 1964 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Dominic Academy; 1976 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Michael’s High School, Union City; 1943 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Michael’s High School; 1940 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Michael’s High School; 1942 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Michael’s High School; 1946 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Peter’s Preparatory High School; 1945 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Peter’s Preparatory High School; 1959 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Peter’s Preparatory High School; 1961 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Peter’s Preparatory High School; 1977 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Peter’s Preparatory High School; 1981 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Saint Peter’s Preparatory High School; 1982 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Snyder High School; 1962 Senior Class
- Hudson County, St. Francis Hospital School Of Nursing; 1943 Graduating Class
- Hudson County, Steven Hoboken Academy; 1943 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Stevens Hoboken Academy; 1941 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Stevens Hoboken Academy; 1942 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Stevens Hoboken Academy; 1944 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Stevens Hoboken Academy; 1972 Senior Class
- Hudson County, The Bergen School; 1944 Senior Class
- Hudson County, The Bergen School; 1966 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Union Hill High School; 1919 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Union Hill High School; 1923 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Union Hill High School; 1933 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Union Hill High School; 1946 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Union Hill High School; February 1926 Senior Class
- Hudson County, Union Hill High School; June 1926 Senior Class
- Hudson County, West New York High School; 1926 Senior Class
- Monmouth County, 1930-39 Manasquan High School, Faculty and Graduates
- Monmouth County, 1940-59 Manasquan High School Graduates
- Morris County, Academy of Saint Elizabeth, Senior Class, 1945
- Morris County, Morristown High School, Senior Class, 1918
- New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair, Registry of Students and Alumni Record, 1910/11-1915/16
- New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair, Registry of Students and Alumni Record, 1917/18-1922
- New Jersey, A Record of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Schools in New Jersey from their Beginnings in 1908 to 1961
- Ocean County, Toms River HS Grads 1921-1958
- Princeton College Graduates during the Eighteenth Century
- Princeton Theological Seminary, 1815-1954: Biographies, 1865-1954
- Princeton Theological Seminary, Biographies of Alumni: 1900-1976; Indexing: 1812-1976 Officers, Faculty, Administrators, Alumnae and Alumni
- Princeton University, an Account of the twentieth Reunion of the Class of ’99,and a Record of the Class
- Princeton University, Pioneers and Princetonians, a Fiftieth Anniversary History of the Class of 1927
- Princeton University, “After Twenty Years”: the Record of the Class of 1877, 1877-1897
- Princeton University, 1961 Reunion Class of ’46
- Princeton University, A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) 1854 – 5
- Princeton University, A Directory and Record of Class of Ninety-nine
- Princeton University, A Record of the Class of Nineteen Hundred
- Princeton University, After five Years: The quinquennial Record of the Class of 1908
- Princeton University, Forty Years a Princetonian, 1939-1979
- Princeton University, General Catalogue 1746-1906
- Princeton University, Quadraquintennial Record of the Class of 1882, together with a Journal of the Reunion week, necrology, Directory and Appendices.
- Princeton University, Record of the Class of Ninety Nine, an Autobiography for the “Tenth Year out”, December, 1909, Number five
- Princeton University, The freshman herald: Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-seven
- Princeton University, The freshman herald: Class of Nineteen Hundred Fifty-five
- Princeton University, The Thirty-five Year Record of the Class of 1927
- Princeton University, The Twenty Year Record of the Class of 1927
- Princeton University, The Twenty-fifth Reunion Record of the Class of 1882, together with “Who’s Who in Eighty-two”, Family Records, necrology, and Appendix
- Princeton University, The Twenty-fifth Reunion Record: together with “Who’s Who in Eighty-two”, Family Records, necrology, and Appendix
- Princeton University, Tricennial: an Account of the thirtieth Reunion of the Class of ’99, and a Record of the Class
- Princeton University, Twenty five Year Record of the Class of 1926, 1951
- Princeton University, Vicennial Record of the Class of 1880, 1880-1900
- Rutgers College, Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College (originally Queen’s College) in New Brunswick, N.J., 1766-1916
- Rutgers College, Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College: (originally Queen’s College,) in New Brunswick, N.J., from 1770 to 1871
- Rutgers University, The celebration of the one Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of its Founding as Queens College, 1766-1916
- Rutgers University; Alumni and Students of Rutgers College 1909-1914
- Somerset County, North Plainfield High School; Senior Class, 1935
- Union County, Abraham Clark High School; Graduating Class, 1954
- Union County, Battin High School; Graduating Class, 1956
- Union County, Battin High School; Graduating Class, 1957
- Union County, Union High School; Senior Class, 1931
- Union County, Westfield Senior High School; Commencement Exercises, 1927
- Union County, Winfield Junior High School; Graduating Class, 1956
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!