Bridgeton High School | |
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Location | |
111 N. West Avenue Bridgeton, NJ 08302 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
School district | Bridgeton Public Schools |
Principal | Lynn B. Williams |
Asst. principals | Azeem Ahmad Stephen Lynch Steven Morris |
Faculty | 112.5 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 1,243 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 11.0:1 |
Color(s) |
Maroon and White |
Athletics conference | Cape-Atlantic League |
Team name | Bulldogs |
Website | School website |
Bridgeton High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the city of Bridgeton, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Bridgeton Public Schools, an Abbott District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1931.
Students from Downe Township and Lawrence Township attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,243 students and 112.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1. There were 87 students (7.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 17 (1.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 334th-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 273rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 303rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 297th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 283rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.