Perth Amboy High School (or PAHS) is a four-year public high school in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States. PAHS, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Perth Amboy Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,539 students and 140.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 18.03:1. There were 1,234 students (48.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 103 (4.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The current Perth Amboy High School was built in 1971, to replace an earlier building that opened in 1881. The building was originally built to accommodate 1,600 students, resulting in overcrowding with nearly 50% students above the design capacity attending the school. Perth Amboy High School is the only public high school in the city other than the Perth Amboy campus of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High Schools. The school mascot is the panther.
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—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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