West Orange High School (New Jersey)
West Orange High School (WOHS) is a comprehensive four-year public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from West Orange in Essex County, New Jersey. WOHS is currently the only high school serving the West Orange Public Schools. West Orange High School is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and 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 2,143 students and 165.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.99:1. There were 670 students (31.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 163 (7.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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