Mahwah High School | |
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Address | |
50 Ridge Road Mahwah, NJ 07430 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1959 |
School district | Mahwah Township Public Schools |
Principal | John P. Pascale |
Asst. principal | Linda Bohny |
Faculty | 91.3 FTEs |
Enrollment | 968 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 10.6:1 |
Campus | Suburban |
Color(s) |
Columbia Blue and Black |
Athletics conference | Big North Conference |
Team name | Thunderbirds |
Rival | Ramsey High School |
Website | School website |
Mahwah High School (MHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students from Mahwah, Bergen County, New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the only secondary school of the Mahwah Township Public Schools. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1962.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 968 students and 91.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.6:1. There were 73 students (7.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 31 (3.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 69th-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 55th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 56th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 68th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 46th in the magazine's 2006 rankings. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 79th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 18 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (90.9%) and language arts literacy (94.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).