Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School is a secondary school serving the Wyomissing Area School District. Located in the borough of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania the school boasts an enrollment in grades seven through twelve of approximately 975 students. WAHS was ranked within Newsweek's top 1,200 public high schools in the United States consecutively for three years between 2006 and 2008.
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