Camden High School (New Jersey)
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| 1700 Park Boulevard Camden, NJ 08103 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1891 |
| School district | Camden City Public Schools |
| Principal | Scott E. Shanklin |
| Faculty | 66.5 FTEs |
| Enrollment | 695 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10.5:1 |
| Color(s) |
Purple and Gold |
| Athletics conference | Olympic Conference |
| Team name | Panthers |
| Website | School website |
Camden High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the city of Camden, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The school is part of the Camden City Public Schools, which is classified as an Abbott District. The school, established in 1891, celebrated its centennial in 1991. The school was originally known as the Camden Manual Training and High School, admitting its first class of 48 boys in 1891, with girls entering the school three years later. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1929.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 695 students and 66.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.5:1. There were 598 students (86.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 14 (2.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
In 2003, Bonsall Family School, Camden High School and East Camden Middle School were identified as three of the seven "persistently dangerous" high schools in New Jersey.
The school was the 339th-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 287th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 322nd and lowest in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 316th in 2008 as the lowest out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 314th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
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