Dwight Morrow High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Englewood, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Englewood Public School District. The school also serves students from Englewood Cliffs, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship. The school has been accredited since 1928 by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
Founded in 1932, the school is named after Dwight Morrow, a businessman, politician, and diplomat, who lived in the city. The school shares its campus with the Academies@Englewood and Janis E. Dismus Middle School. Dwight Morrow & the Academies at Englewood are located east of Miller's Pond and share the same administration. Janis E. Dismus Middle School, the former Englewood Middle School is located south of Millers Pond and operates independently.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 994 students and 86.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.48:1. There were 413 students (41.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 73 (7.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch."| enrollment = 994 (as of 2010-11)
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