Cherry Hill High School West
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 Cherry Hill High School West
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| 2101 Chapel Avenue Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 |
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| Coordinates | 39°55′44″N 75°01′12″W / 39.9288°N 75.020°WCoordinates: 39°55′44″N 75°01′12″W / 39.9288°N 75.020°W |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1956 |
| School district | Cherry Hill Public Schools |
| Principal | Kwame Morton |
| Asst. principals | Chuck Coligan Kwame Morton Louis Papa Augie Ramos Allison Staffin |
| Faculty | 109.0 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,403 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.9:1 |
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Purple and White |
| Athletics conference | Olympic Conference |
| Team name | Lions |
| Website | School Website |
Cherry Hill High School West (also known as Cherry Hill West or CHW) is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth grade through twelfth grades in Cherry Hill, Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Cherry Hill Public Schools. The other comprehensive high school in the district is Cherry Hill High School East. Established in 1956, Cherry Hill High School West was originally known as Delaware Township High School and then Cherry Hill High School.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,403 students and 109.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1. There were 325 students (23.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 93 (6.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Cherry Hill High School West was an IB World School from September 2000 to June 2008, offering students the IB Diploma Programme.
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 68th in New Jersey and 1,990th nationwide. The school was ranked 1534th nationwide, the 54th-highest in New Jersey, in Newsweek magazine's 2010 rankings of America's Best High Schools.
The school was the 161st-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 146th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 57th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 96th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 126th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 144th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 36 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.7%) and language arts literacy (94.4%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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