Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy (abbreviated as AHPA) is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Elizabeth, in Union County, New Jersey, operating as part of Elizabeth Public Schools. The academy accepts students from grades nine through twelve in Elizabeth who have passed the requirements for enrollment. The academy is operated by the Elizabeth Board of Education. Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The curriculum prepares its students for four-year colleges and Ivy League schools.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 707 students and 43.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.44:1. There were 550 students (77.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 550 (9.76% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Read more about Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy: Awards, Recognition and Rankings, History, Administration, Curriculum, Academic and Elective Courses, Regulations, AVID, Clubs and Organizations, Athletics
Famous quotes containing the words alexander, hamilton and/or academy:
“When Alexander Pope strolled in the city
Strict was the glint of pearl and gold sedans.
Ladies leaned out more out of fear than pity
For Pope’s tight back was rather a goat’s than man’s.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.”
—Gail Hamilton (1833–1896)
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)