Robert Treat Academy Charter School
The Robert Treat Academy charter school serves 525 students in kindergarten through eighth grade on two campuses. 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 was nationally recognized in 2008 when it was selected by the U.S. Department of Education from among thousands of applicants as a Blue Ribbon School. The academy was one of only eight in New Jersey and 329 nationwide to win the coveted award. In 2009, the DOE prominently featured Robert Treat as a “high poverty, high achieving” model school on its web site.
The main campus is located on Clifton Avenue in the city's North Ward. In August 2009, Robert Treat opened a second campus in the city's Central Ward. The school currently serves 75 students in kindergarten through second grade and will add a new class every year until 2016, when it will have 225 students in grades K-8.
Newark children have to win a lottery to enter the school. 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 75 new kindergarten students each year. For more information about the lottery, visit RTA’s admission page.