Spotswood High School (New Jersey)


Spotswood High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade in Spotswood, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Spotswood Public Schools.
As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 679 students and 58.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 59 students eligible for free lunch and 11 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Students from Helmetta, a non-operating district, attend school in Spotswood beginning in grammar school; students from Milltown attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Milltown Public Schools.

Awards, recognition and rankings

During the 1992-93 school year, Spotswood High 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.
The school was the 159th-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 102nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 105th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 126th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 183rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 80th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics and language arts literacy components of the High School Proficiency Assessment.

Athletics

The Spotswood High School Chargers compete in the Blue Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference, which operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 576 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as Central Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 498 to 750 students in that grade range.

Cross country

Core members of the school's administration are: