Colonia High School
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| 180 East Street Colonia, NJ 07067 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| School district | Woodbridge Township School District |
| Principal | Kenneth D. Pace Sr. |
| Vice principals | Jennifer Murphy Jamison Panko |
| Faculty | 119.0 FTEs |
| Grades | 9th-12th |
| Enrollment | 1,364 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.5:1 |
| Color(s) |
Blue and Gold |
| Athletics conference | Greater Middlesex Conference |
| Mascot | The Patriot |
| Team name | Patriots |
| Newspaper | The Declaration |
| Yearbook | The Arch |
| Website | School website |
Colonia High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades in the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It operates as part of the Woodbridge Township School District, along with two other high schools, John F. Kennedy Memorial High School and Woodbridge High School. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1973.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,364 students and 119.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1. There were 315 students (23.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 124 (9.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 127th-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 182nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 192nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 188th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 208th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 93rd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 61 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (86.2%) and language arts literacy (97.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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