Manchester Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey and is part of the Manchester Township School District. The school serves students in grades 9 – 12 from Manchester Township, and also serves approximately 180 high school students from Lakehurst Borough, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,168 students and 79.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.64:1. There were 213 students (18.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 79 (6.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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