Arthur L. Johnson High School
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 Arthur L. Johnson High School
Arthur L. Johnson High School
Arthur L. Johnson High School
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| 365 Westfield Avenue Clark, NJ 07066 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1956 |
| School district | Clark Public School District |
| Principal | Richard Delmonaco |
| Asst. principal | Daniel Hemberger |
| Faculty | 68.5 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 790 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.5:1 |
| Color(s) |
Navy Blue and White |
| Athletics conference | Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference |
| Alumni | ALJalumni.org |
| Website | School website |
Arthur L. Johnson High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Clark, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Clark Public School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1963. Students from Garwood attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Garwood Public Schools.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 790 students and 68.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1. There were 38 students (4.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 18 (2.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 47th in New Jersey and 1,493rd nationwide. The school was ranked 1609th, the 62nd-highest in New Jersey, in Newsweek magazine's 2010 rankings of America's Best High Schools.
In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast ranked the school 898th in the nation among participating public high schools and 67th among schools in New Jersey.
The school was the 86th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 40th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 101st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 95th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 91st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 115th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 29 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (84.1%) and language arts literacy (97.5%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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