Edison High School (New Jersey)
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Edison High School
Edison High School
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50 Boulevard of the Eagles Edison, NJ 08817 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°30′59″N 74°23′21″W / 40.51633°N 74.3891°WCoordinates: 40°30′59″N 74°23′21″W / 40.51633°N 74.3891°W |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | Nothing Less Than Excellence |
| Established | 1955 |
| School district | Edison Township Public Schools |
| Principal | Charles K. Ross Sr. |
| Asst. principals | Joseph Ferrara Nicole Kesselman Aurora Loufek |
| Faculty | 157.6 FTEs |
| Grades | 9th-12th |
| Enrollment | 1,938 (as of 2015-16) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.3:1 |
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Scarlet and Vegas Gold |
| Athletics conference | Greater Middlesex Conference |
| Mascot | Edgar the Eagle |
| Team name | Eagles |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Newspaper | Edison Eagle |
| Yearbook | Talon |
| Website | School website |
Edison High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Edison, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students of many diverse cultures, and is part of the Edison Township Public Schools. The other high school in the district is J. P. Stevens High School. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools.
Most of the Edison High School students come from either Herbert Hoover Middle School or Thomas Jefferson Middle School, though some come from Woodrow Wilson Middle School.
As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,938 students and 157.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1. There were 506 students (26.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 175 (9.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 135th-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 174th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 169th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 177th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 155th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Edison High School students are required to take four years of English, four years of math, three years of science, three years of history (one of world and two of U.S.) and at least two years of a foreign language (including Latin, French, Spanish and starting in 2008, Hindi). In addition, health and physical education classes are required for every year in which a student attends EHS. Starting with the Class of 2008, one year of "Career Education and Consumer, Family and Life Skills" such as Foods or Technology Fundamentals is required as well as another year of the "Visual Performing Arts" such as Chorus, Band, Visual Arts, Clothing for Fashion, and Architectural Drawing. EHS has an Honors college preparatory track that features several Advanced Placement (AP) courses.
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