Metuchen High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Metuchen in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Metuchen School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1929.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 602 students and 41.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.51:1. There were 37 students (6.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 11 (1.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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