The school was the 105th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 86th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 84th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 104th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 84th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Athletics
The Parsippany High School Red Hawks participate in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, which operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 709 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North II, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 508 to 770 students in that grade range. Prior to the NJSIAA's 2010 realignment, the school had competed as part of the Iron Hills Conference, which was made up of public and private high schools in Essex County, Morris County and Union County. Interscholastic sports and activities offered at Parsippany High include football, soccer, cross-country running, marching band, field hockey, volleyball, and cheerleading in the fall, swimming, basketball, ice hockey, wrestling, track, and cheerleading in the winter, and baseball, softball, track, tennis, and golf in the spring. Richard Fonti is the Athletic Director. The school's mascot was originally a caricature of a Native American, and the teams were referred to as the Redskins. However, that was changed recently due to concerns that the mascot was a racist caricature, and the official mascot was changed to that of a Redhawk in 2001, based on student body nominations. The school participates in a joint ice hockey program with Parsippany Hills High School as the host school / lead agency, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2019-20 school year. The boys' basketball team won the Group III state championship in 1999, defeating Lawrence High School in the final game of the tournament. The wrestling team won the North II Group II state sectional title in 1999 and 2000, and won the North I Group II title in 2009. The team won the 2000 North II, Group III with a 29-26 win over Rahway High School in the tournament final. The school's marching band won the USBands Group IV A National Championship in 2015 with their program Cloud 9.
