History
The school opened in September 1973 for students in seventh through tenth grades as the first full open plan high school in the state, constructed at a cost of $8 million. Students in grades 11 and 12 As of the 1973-74 school year attended Princeton High School in Princeton through their graduation, with plans to have 1,300 students in the new high school after two years.
In the 1990s, population growth in the district necessitated an additional high school, and in 1997 West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North was built and "South" was added on to the end in order to help differentiate between the two.
Read more about this topic: West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South
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