Columbia High School (New Jersey)
Columbia High School is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school in Maplewood, New Jersey, which serves students in grades nine through twelve within the South Orange-Maplewood School District, which includes Maplewood and South Orange Townships. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,866 students and 146 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.78:1.
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