James Caldwell High School
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| 265 Westville Avenue West Caldwell, NJ 07006 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | "A Place of Possibilities" |
| School district | Caldwell-West Caldwell Public Schools |
| Principal | Jim Devlin |
| Vice principals | John Bertollo Jessica Valentine |
| Faculty | 72.0 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 804 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.2:1 |
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Blue and white |
| Athletics conference | Super Essex Conference |
| Team name | Chiefs / Lady Chiefs |
| Website | School website |
James Caldwell High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in West Caldwell, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Caldwell-West Caldwell Public Schools, which serves students from both Caldwell and West Caldwell. The school is named after American Revolutionary War figure Reverend James Caldwell. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 804 students and 72.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.2:1. There were 38 students (4.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (1.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 52nd-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 46th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 45th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 57th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 43rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 124th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 26 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (86.6%) and language arts literacy (93.7%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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