Hillsborough High School | |
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Front of the school
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466 Raider Boulevard Hillsborough, NJ, Somerset County, 08844 |
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Coordinates | 40°29′46″N 74°39′22″W / 40.49611°N 74.65611°WCoordinates: 40°29′46″N 74°39′22″W / 40.49611°N 74.65611°W |
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School type | Public, high school |
Established | 1969 |
School district | Hillsborough Township School District |
Principal | Karen Bingert |
Vice principals | Evette Chaney Steven Jablonski Michael Simborski Colin Simpson |
Faculty | 192.9 FTEs |
Grades | 9 - 12 |
Enrollment | 2,290 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 11.9:1 |
Color(s) |
Cardinal and gold |
Athletics conference | Skyland Conference |
Team name | Raiders |
Publication | The Voice |
Yearbook | Ramrod |
Website | School website |
Hillsborough High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hillsborough Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hillsborough Township School District. Students from Millstone also attend the school, after Millstone was integrated into the Hillsborough district, prior to which they had attended as part of a sending/receiving relationship.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,290 students and 192.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. There were 118 students (5.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 52 (2.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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 106th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 81st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 84th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 100th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 69th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 12 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.1%) and language arts literacy (97.3%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).