Morris Hills High School is a comprehensive regional four-year public high school located in the borough of Rockaway, serving students in grades 9 - 12 in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Morris Hills Regional High School District. The other high school in the district is Morris Knolls High School. The school located on the 39-acre (160,000 m2) former Gunther Estate, opened to students on September 9, 1953.
The high school serves students from Rockaway Borough, Wharton, and parts of Rockaway Township. Most students come to Morris Hills from Copeland Middle School, Alfred C. MacKinnon Middle School and Thomas Jefferson Middle School.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,125 students and 85.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.17:1. There were 186 students (16.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 60 (5.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The campus of Morris Hills houses The Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering a science-oriented magnet school operated as a joint effort with the Morris County Vocational School District and open by competitive application to all students from Morris County.
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