Piscataway High School
| Piscataway Township High School | |
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School as seen from Route 18
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 Piscataway Township High School
Piscataway Township High School
Piscataway Township High School
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| 100 Behmer Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1957 |
| School district | Piscataway Township Schools |
| Principal | Jason Lester |
| Asst. principals | Dr. Antoine Gayles Matthew Ritchie |
| Faculty | 165.3 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,170 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13.1:1 |
| Color(s) |
Black and Gold |
| Athletics conference | Greater Middlesex Conference |
| Team name | Chiefs |
| Website | Piscataway High School |
Piscataway Township High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Piscataway Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Piscataway Township 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 1963. Piscataway Township High School is known for its exceptional football program; three former players were drafted in the first round of the National Football League draft in two years, the first time in history that such an event has occurred.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,170 students and 165.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1:1. There were 538 students (24.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 205 (9.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school has received the following notable awards and recognitions.
Piscataway High School received an "A" and was ranked "above average to excellent" in a recent issue of Inside Jersey Magazine, a publication of the Star Ledger. The article, entitled "New Jersey's Top Performing Public High Schools," rated schools throughout the state based on academic achievement and test score growth over a four-year period. Piscataway High School was one of only nine schools out of twenty-seven in Middlesex County to be given an "A" rating. The school was the 144th-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 217th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 140th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 146th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 177th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 151st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 15 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (84.0%) and language arts literacy (93.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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