Barringer High School, formerly Newark High School, is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools. Some consider it to be the third oldest public high school in the United States. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1981.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,575 students and 108 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.58.
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