Roxbury High School | |
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Location | |
1 Bryant Drive Succasunna, NJ 07876 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Motto | A Commitment to Excellence in Education |
Established | 1903 |
Principal | Jeffrey Swanson |
Asst. principals | Dr. Linda Bowles Jon Deeb |
Faculty | 129.8 FTEs |
Enrollment | 1,427 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 11.0:1 |
Color(s) |
Navy blue and gold |
Athletics conference | Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference |
Team name | Gaels |
Newspaper | Roxbury Review |
Yearbook | Echo |
Website | School website |
Roxbury High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Succasunna section of Roxbury Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, operating as the lone secondary school of the Roxbury School District. It was established in 1903.
Roxbury High School's students come from Roxbury Township, as well as from Mount Arlington, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Mount Arlington School District.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,427 students and 129.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1. There were 131 students (9.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 53 (3.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 102nd-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 93rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 115th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 98th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 113th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 148th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 1 position from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (82.4%) and language arts literacy (95.1%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).