Sayreville War Memorial High School | |
---|---|
Address | |
820 Washington Road Parlin, NJ 08859 |
|
Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1939 (orig. location) 1962 (curr. location) |
School district | Sayreville Public Schools |
Superintendent | Richard Labbe |
Principal | James Brown |
Vice principals | Richard Gluchowski Megan Romero Dale Rubino |
Faculty | 129.0 FTEs |
Grades | 9 to 12 |
Enrollment | 1,670 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 12.9:1 |
Color(s) |
Blue gray |
Team name | Bombers |
Yearbook | Quo Vadis |
Website | www |
Sayreville War Memorial High School (SWMHS) is a four-year community public high school located in the Parlin section of Sayreville, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Sayreville Public Schools district. The school colors are blue and gray, and the sports teams are the Sayreville Bombers, marking the legacy of the town's World War I ammunition plants and many World War II veterans.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,670 students and 129.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1. There were 427 students (25.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 200 (12.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 163rd-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 241st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 232nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 213th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 217th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 222nd out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 1 position from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).