Camden High School (New Jersey)
Camden High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the city of Camden, New Jersey, United States. The school is part of the Camden City Public Schools, which is classified as an Abbott District. The school, established in 1891, celebrated its centennial in 1991. The school was originally known as the Camden Manual Training and High School, admitting its first class of 48 boys in 1891, with girls entering the school three years later. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1929.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 889 students and 82.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.84:1. There were 532 students (59.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 15 (1.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
In 2003, Bonsall Family School, Camden High School, and East Camden Middle School were identified as three of the seven "persistently dangerous" high schools in New Jersey.
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