Elmwood Park Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Elmwood Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Elmwood Park Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1963.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 744 students and 40.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 18.60:1. There were 158 students (21.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 56 (7.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch."
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