Mount Olive High School (New Jersey)
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| 18 Cory Road Flanders, NJ 07836 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | "First we will be best, then we will be first!" |
| Established | 1972 (as West Morris Mount Olive HS) September, 1978 (as Mount Olive HS) |
| School district | Mount Olive Township School District |
| Principal | Kevin R. Stansberry |
| Vice principals | Robert Feltmann James Kramer Don Woodring |
| Faculty | 110.9 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,470 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13.3:1 |
| Color(s) |
Red black and gold |
| Athletics conference | Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference |
| Team name | Marauders |
| Website | School website |
Mount Olive High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Mount Olive Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Mount Olive Township School District. The school is located in the Flanders section of the township.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,470 students and 110.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.3:1. There were 124 students (8.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 51 (3.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The original school opened in October 1972 and was operated as West Morris Mount Olive High School by the West Morris Regional High School District until the 1978-1979 school year, when Mount Olive Township voters elected to leave the regional district. West Morris Mount Olive High School Class of 1978 was the last graduating class from this facility under the regional administration. The high school building and remaining faculty became part of the Mount Olive Township Schools
In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 482nd out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 50th among all high schools in New Jersey and 33rd among the state's non-magnet schools.
The school was the 97th-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 69th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 90th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 107th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 114th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 109th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 35 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.9%) and language arts literacy (96.4%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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