New Milford High School | |
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Location | |
One Snyder Circle New Milford, NJ 07646 |
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Coordinates | 40°56′34″N 74°01′23″W / 40.94278°N 74.02306°WCoordinates: 40°56′34″N 74°01′23″W / 40.94278°N 74.02306°W |
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Type | Public high school |
School district | New Milford School District |
Principal | Lou Manuppelli |
Vice principal | Jerry Perrone |
Faculty | 51.0 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 632 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 12.4:1 |
Color(s) |
Green and white |
Athletics conference | North Jersey Interscholastic Conference |
Team name | Knights |
Website | School website |
New Milford High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from New Milford in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the New Milford School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1964.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 632 students and 51.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.4:1. There were 35 students (5.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 21 (3.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 131st-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 169th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 161st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 99th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 86th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 132nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 55 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.3%) and language arts literacy (95.9%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).