School Districts in Morris County, New Jersey - Boonton Public Schools, Boonton Township School District, Butler Public Schools, Chester Township Publi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 21. Chapters: Boonton Public Schools, Boonton Township School District, Butler Public Schools, Chester Township Public School District, Denville Township School District, Dover School District (New Jersey), East Hanover School District, Florham Park School District, Hanover Park Regional High School District, Hanover Township Public Schools, Harding Township School District, Jefferson Township Public Schools, Kinnelon Public Schools, Lincoln Park Public Schools (New Jersey), Long Hill Township School System, Madison Public Schools, Mendham Borough Schools, Mendham Township Public Schools, Mine Hill School District, Montville Township School District, Morris County Vocational School District, Morris Hills Regional High School District, Morris Plains Schools, Morris School District, Mountain Lakes Schools, Mount Arlington School District, Mount Olive Township School District, Netcong School District, Parsippany-Troy Hills School District, Pequannock Township School District, Randolph Township Schools, Riverdale School District (New Jersey), Rockaway Borough Public Schools, Rockaway Township Public Schools, Roxbury School District, School District of the Chathams, Washington Township Schools, Watchung Hills Regional High School, West Morris Regional High School District, Wharton Borough School District. Excerpt: 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 district's one school had an enrollment of 2,084 students and 169.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.93:1. 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. Watchung Hills Regional High School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education in 1994-95, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 34th in New Jersey and 1,160th nationwide. As of 2008, the Newsweek ranks the school as 919th in the nation. In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Watchung Hills High School was listed in 999th place, the 31st-highest ranked school in New Jersey. In the magazine's 2006 survey, the school was ranked as 745th nationwide. In their 2004 survey, Newsweek ranked WHRHS as the 583rd best high school in the nation. The school was the 44th-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