Robert Treat Academy Charter School
The Robert Treat Academy charter school serves 450 students in grade kindergarten through eighth grades. RTA offers children an opportunity to learn and grow in a safe and stimulating academic environment.
Founded in 1997 by the North Ward Center, the Robert Treat Academy achieved national recognition in just 11 short years. The U.S. Department of Education selected Robert Treat from among thousands of applicants as a No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon School in 2008. The academy is one of only eight in New Jersey and 329 nationwide to win the coveted award. In 2009, the DOE is prominently featuring Robert Treat as a “high poverty, high achieving” model school on its web site.
Newark children have to win a lottery to enter this charter school and our graduates are now recruited by the best high schools in the country. The first graduates, Class of 2005, received over $4 million in high school scholarship offers and this year's class has surpassed that amount.
Our graduates attend the most prestigious private boarding schools in the country on full scholarship, including Choate-Rosemary Hall, Peddie, Lawrenceville, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Phillips Academy Andover. Our graduates have received more than $14 million in scholarship offers and financial aid.
Robert Treat is a public school and is open to all Newark residents by lottery. Typically, RTA enrolls 50 new kindergarten students each year. For more information about the lottery, visit RTA’s admission page.