Long Branch High School is a comprehensive, four-year community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades in the city of Long Branch, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Long Branch Public Schools. LBPS, one of 31 special-needs Abbott districts in the state, serves the city of Long Branch. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,101 students and 99.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.12:1. There were 692 students (62.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 121 (11.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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