Highland Park High School (New Jersey)
Highland Park High School (HPHS), is a four-year comprehensive public high school, part of the Highland Park Public Schools system, that serves student in grades nine through twelve from the borough of Highland Park, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The school was established in 1926 as a junior high school, serving up to grade 10. Until HPHS became a senior high school in 1937, students from Highland Park finished their education at either New Brunswick High School or Metuchen High School. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1940.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 413 students and 27.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.07:1. There were 70 students (16.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 24 (5.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The original school building was designed by architect Alexander Merchant and built in the 1920s. Later additions are the Science and Math wing in 1958; the English wing in 1968; the library and arts wing in the 1980s; and the cafeteria and a connected middle school (grades 6, 7, and 8) in 1996. Student population peaked in the 1960s, with a population in the 900s.
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