Princeton High School (New Jersey) - Awards, Recognition and Rankings

Awards, Recognition and Rankings

In U.S. News & World Report's December 9, 2009, issue, Princeton High School was the 94th ranked public high school in the nation and was the highest ranked open-admissions high school in New Jersey.

In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 8th in New Jersey and 371st nationwide. The school was ranked 210th in Newsweek's 2009 ranking of the top 1,500 high schools in the United States and was the third-ranked school in New Jersey, with 2.943 AP tests taken in 2008 per graduating senior and 60% of all graduating seniors passing at least one AP exam. The school was ranked 142nd nationwide in 2008. In Newsweek's 2007 ranking of the country's top high schools, Princeton High School was listed in 208th place, the seventh-highest ranked school in New Jersey. The school was listed in 133rd place, the third-highest ranked school in New Jersey, in Newsweek's May 8, 2006, issue listing the Top 1200 High Schools in The United States. Princeton High School was ranked as number 212 in Newsweek's 2005 survey and 113th in its 2004 survey.

The school was the 59th-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 44th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 6th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 13th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 75th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 16 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (91.3%) and language arts literacy (94.7%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).

The November 30, 2007, issue of The Wall Street Journal, ranking the country's high schools based on a percentage of 2007 high school seniors sent to eight selective colleges, placed Princeton High School at #27. PHS was the second highest ranked publicly funded school, with a total of 31 students matriculating the select eight schools. The eight colleges were Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Pomona, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Swarthmore, and Williams. Princeton High School's rank was aided by the fact that 19 students from the school matriculated to Princeton University.