Edison High School (New Jersey)
Edison High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Edison, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students of many diverse cultures, and is part of the Edison Township Public Schools. The other high school in the district is J. P. Stevens High School.
Most of the Edison High School students come from either Herbert Hoover Middle School or Thomas Jefferson Middle School, though some come from Woodrow Wilson Middle School.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,982 students and 146.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.58:1. There were 302 students (15.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 125 (6.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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