Jonathan Dayton High School
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 Jonathan Dayton High School
Jonathan Dayton High School
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139 Mountain Avenue Springfield, NJ 07081 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1934 |
| Principal | Dr. Norman Francis |
| Asst. principal | Ron Slate |
| Faculty | 47.6 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 630 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13.2:1 |
| Campus | Open |
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Royal Blue and Orange |
| Athletics conference | Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference |
| Team name | Bulldogs |
| Publication | Jargon (literary magazine) |
| Newspaper | The Dawg Print |
| Website | School website |
Jonathan Dayton High School is an American four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Springfield Township, in Union County, New Jersey, operating as part of the Springfield Public Schools. The school is named after Jonathan Dayton, a signer of the United States Constitution. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 630 students and 47.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 51 students (8.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 29 (4.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 60th in New Jersey and 1,732nd nationwide. The school was the 991st-ranked public high school in the United States out of over 26,000 schools in the country, 29th in the state of New Jersey, in Newsweek magazine's "America's Top High Schools 2010" edition.
The school was the 113th-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 26th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 40th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 32nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 44th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 76th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 109 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.5%) and language arts literacy (96.4%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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