Highland Park High School (New Jersey)
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| 102 North Fifth Avenue Highland Park, NJ 08904 |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | September 1926 |
| School district | Highland Park Public Schools |
| Principal | Michael Lassiter |
| Asst. principal | Caitlin Brady |
| Faculty | 35.8 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 474 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13.2:1 |
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Cardinal and White |
| Athletics conference | Greater Middlesex Conference |
| Team name | Owls |
| Newspaper | The Highland Fling |
| Yearbook | The Albadome |
| Website | School website |
Highland Park High School (HPHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the borough of Highland Park, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, as the lone secondary school of the Highland Park Public Schools system. The school was established in 1926 as a junior high school, serving up to grade 10. Until HPHS became a senior high school in 1937, students from Highland Park finished their education at either New Brunswick High School or Metuchen High School. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1940.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 474 students and 35.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 119 students (25.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 39 (8.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The original school building was designed by architect Alexander Merchant and built in the 1920s. Later additions include the Science and Math wing in 1958; the English wing in 1968; the library and arts wing in the 1980s; and the cafeteria and a connected middle school (grades 6, 7, and 8) in 1996. Student population peaked in the 1960s, with a population in the 900s.
The school was the 74th-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 67th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 37th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 50th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 31st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 184th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 54 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the two components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), mathematics (79.0%) and language arts literacy (93.3%).
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