Carteret High School
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199 Washington Avenue Carteret, NJ 07008 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°34′51″N 74°13′37″W / 40.580765°N 74.22697°WCoordinates: 40°34′51″N 74°13′37″W / 40.580765°N 74.22697°W |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1929 |
| School district | Carteret School District |
| Principal | David Salvatore |
| Vice principals | Karen Jones Christina Rozanski |
| Faculty | 78.5 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,033 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13.2:1 |
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Royal blue and white |
| Athletics conference | Greater Middlesex Conference |
| Team name | Ramblers |
| Website | School website |
Carteret High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Carteret in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, as the lone secondary school of the Carteret School District. 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 1,033 students and 78.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 548 students (53.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 127 (12.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Advanced Placement (AP) courses are offered in AP Biology. The Project Acceleration Program allows students to receive college credit from Seton Hall University and over 200 other colleges and universities. Schedule permitting, students may also earn college credits by attending classes at Middlesex County College.
The school was the 261st-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 296th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 302nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 272nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 312th in the magazine's September 2010 issue, which surveyed 332 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 270th out of 367 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 17 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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