Metuchen High School
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| 400 Grove Avenue Metuchen, NJ 08840 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| School district | Metuchen School District |
| Principal | Bruce Peragallo |
| Vice principal | Susan La Fauci |
| Faculty | 53.3 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 643 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.1:1 |
| Color(s) |
Royal blue and white |
| Athletics conference | Greater Middlesex Conference |
| Team name | Bulldogs |
| Website | School website |
Metuchen High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Metuchen in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Metuchen School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1929.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 643 students and 53.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 43 students (6.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 6 (0.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 77th-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 19th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 54th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 86th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 56th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 99th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease 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 (88.6%) and language arts literacy (94.7%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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