Rutherford High School (New Jersey)
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56 Elliott Place Rutherford, NJ 07070 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1922 |
| Principal | Frank Morano |
| Vice principal | Billy Cunningham |
| Faculty | 67.1 FTEs |
| Enrollment | 748 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.2:1 |
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Navy blue and white |
| Athletics conference | North Jersey Interscholastic Conference |
| Team name | Bulldogs |
| Rivals | Glen Rock |
| Website | School website |
Rutherford High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Rutherford, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Rutherford School District. The original structure was built in 1922 and expanded in 1938, 1957 and 2005. Rutherford High School is overseen by the New Jersey Department of Education and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1940.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 748 students and 67.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.2:1. There were 19 students (2.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 7 (0.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
During the 1999-2000 school year, the school was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive, which recognized the school's use of technology in the instruction process in which every classroom was wired for Internet access and a substantially higher than average level of access by students to computers.
The school was the 124th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 71st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 73rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 72nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 88th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 141st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (unchanged from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (86.2%) and language arts literacy (92.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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