Clayton High School (New Jersey)
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| 55 Pop Kramer Boulevard Clayton, NJ 08312 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | "Preparing Students for Opportunities of the Future" |
| School district | Clayton Public Schools |
| Principal | Nikolaos Koutsogiannis |
| Asst. principal | Joseph Visalli |
| Faculty | 36.0 FTEs |
| Enrollment | 381 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 10.6:1 |
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Navy blue gold |
| Athletics conference | Tri-County Conference |
| Team name | Clippers |
| Information | Member of the NJ Interdistrict School Choice Program |
| Website | School website |
Clayton High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Clayton, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Clayton Public Schools.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 348 students and 34.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1. There were 129 students (37.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 50 (14.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Clayton High School was named by U.S. News & World Report as one of the "Best High Schools" in New Jersey in 2012-2013.
The school was the 273rd-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 184th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 224th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 210th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 244th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
In the 1997-98 school year, Clayton High School was recognized by the New Jersey Department of Education as a Best Practice School for its Commercial Art program in the Public Engagement category. In 2010, Clayton High School received a bronze medal as one of the Top High Schools in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.
The Clayton High School Clippers compete as one of the member schools in the Tri-County Conference, which is overseen by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 302 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 78 to 478 students in that grade range.
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