Fair Lawn High School
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| 14-00 Berdan Avenue Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Principal | Batman |
| Asst. principal | Frank Guadagnino Timothy Wilson |
| Faculty | 112.8 FTEs |
| Enrollment | 1,465 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13.0:1 |
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Crimson and Gray |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
| Mascot | Captain Cutter |
| Team name | Cutters |
| Vice principal | Stevie Banning |
| Website | School website |
Fair Lawn High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Fair Lawn, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Fair Lawn Public Schools.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,465 students and 112.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1. There were 132 students (9.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 56 (3.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
For the 1990-91 and 1997-98 school years, Fair Lawn High School received the National Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.
In 1998, the school's principal was named the State Principal of the Year by the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association in recognition of her work, which included being the principal of the only public high school in New Jersey (as of that time) to have won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Excellence.
In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools" The Daily Beast ranked the school 876th in the nation among participating public high schools and 66th among schools in New Jersey. In 2012, Newsweek ranked FLHS in the top 4% of high schools in the nation based on how hard schools challenge their students with Advanced Placement and college level courses. In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 58th in New Jersey and 1,691st nationwide. In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Fair Lawn High School was listed in 808th place, the 19th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.
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