Hanover Park High School | |
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Location | |
63 Mount Pleasant Avenue East Hanover, NJ 07936 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1956 |
School district | Hanover Park Regional High School District |
Principal | Thomas J. Callanan |
Asst. principal | Michael Menditto Sergio Silva |
Faculty | 85.2 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 876 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 10.3:1 |
Color(s) |
Black and Gold |
Athletics conference | Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference |
Team name | Hornets |
Website | School website |
Hanover Park High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from East Hanover Township and Florham Park, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as one of the two secondary schools of the Hanover Park Regional High School District. Hanover Park's sister school is Whippany Park High School, which serves students from Hanover Township, where the school is located. The school opened in 1956.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 876 students and 85.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.3:1. There were 19 students (2.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 11 (1.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 26th-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 57th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 96th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 67th in 2008 out of 316 schools. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 117th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 2 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.2%) and language arts literacy (96.3%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).