Morris Knolls High School
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"Home Of The Golden Eagles"
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 Morris Knolls High School
Morris Knolls High School
Morris Knolls High School
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50 Knoll Drive Rockaway, NJ, Morris 07866 |
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| School type | Public high school |
| Opened | 1964 |
| Status | Open |
| School district | Morris Hills Regional High School District |
| CEEB code | 311321 |
| Principal | Ryan MacNaughton |
| Asst. principals | Joseph Cirigliano Daniel Haug Erin Morgan |
| Faculty | 142.7 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,583 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.1:1 |
| Hours in school day | 7 |
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Green and Gold |
| Athletics | Varsity |
| Athletics conference | Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference |
| Team name | Golden Eagles |
| Rival | Randolph, Morris Hills |
| Average SAT scores | 1561 |
| Publication | Spectrum |
| Newspaper | Quill |
| Yearbook | Talon |
| Communities served | Rockaway Township, Rockaway and Denville |
| Website | School website |
Morris Knolls High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Denville and most of Rockaway Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as one of the two secondary schools of the Morris Hills Regional High School District. The school is located in Denville but has a Rockaway mailing address. The other high school in the district is Morris Hills High School.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,583 students and 142.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.1:1. There were 120 students (7.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 28 (1.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
As a part of the Morris Hills Regional School District's (MHRD) magnet program, Morris Knolls was approved as an International Baccalaureate (IB) world school. The IB Diploma Program at Morris Knolls (MKIB) serves more than 80 students.
The school was the 64th-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 79th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 79th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 88th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was also ranked 71st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 120th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 34 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (86.4%) and language arts literacy (94.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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