Summit Senior High School
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| 125 Kent Place Boulevard Summit, NJ 07901 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1888 |
| School district | Summit Public Schools |
| Principal | Stacy Grimaldi |
| Asst. principals | Lorena Dolan Nicholas Steffner |
| Faculty | 104.1 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,231 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.8:1 |
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Maroon White and Gold |
| Athletics conference | Union County Interscholastic Athletic Conference |
| Team name | Hilltoppers |
| Website | School website |
Summit High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Summit, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Summit Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1934.
The school was opened in 1888 due to an increased need for a publicly operated secondary school within the City of Summit. The school's athletic teams are referred to as the Hilltoppers, though the school's actual mascot is a mountain goat wearing a Summit High School athletic jersey. The school's colors are maroon, white and gold, although for most of its history they were maroon and white.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,231 students and 104.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. There were 153 students (12.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 64 (5.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was originally located in a building constructed in the 1920s on Morris Avenue between Maple and Elm Streets near downtown Summit. It shared this building with the junior high school until 1936, when Edison Junior High School opened in east Summit. However, a number of parents outside of east Summit—then called "Deantown"—objected to their children traveling to this section of the city. By 1943, the new junior high school had closed and the high school again shared the Morris Avenue building with the junior high school. (The building still houses the junior high school, now known as Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School.)
In 1962, the high school relocated to a larger, more modern facility located at 125 Kent Place Boulevard, slightly outside of downtown Summit and within the Washington Elementary School district. In the late 1990s, a push was made to renovate the outdated high school. From 2000 until 2003, the high school building underwent a series of renovations, including the construction of a new media center, cafeteria, gymnasium, and science laboratories. Special attention was also paid to upgrading the building's existing facilities and to increasing the information technology capacities of classrooms.
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