Watchung Hills Regional High School is a regional public high school and school district serving students in portions of Somerset and Morris Counties in New Jersey, United States. The high school is located next to Woodland School, in Warren Township. Students from Warren Township and from the neighboring communities of Watchung, and Green Brook in Somerset County and Long Hill Township in Morris County attend the school.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,065 students and 139.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.77:1. There were 28 students (1.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 17 (0.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second highest of eight groupings.
Watchung Hills also offers an adult school that operates at night in the facilities. The school colors were brown and yellow, but at about the turn of the millennium, gold took the place of yellow. Through recent years, the brown color has been phased out for black on many pieces of merchandise and signage.
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