Awards, Recognition and Honors
The school has received the following notable awards and recognitions.
- Governor's School of Excellence, November 21, 2003
- Best Practice Award, 2002-03 for Comfort Zone
- Best Practice Award, 2004-05 for Life Skills and Beyond
- Golden Achievement Award, 2004
- Best Practice Award, 2005-06 for Senior Citizens Outreach Program & Exchange (SCOPE)
- Coalition of Essential Schools, 2005. First school in the state to be granted full membership.
- National AVID School Certified School, 2006
- Amistad Fellow, 2006
The school was the 217th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 140th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 146th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 177th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 151st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 15 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (84.0%) and language arts literacy (93.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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