American History High School

American History High School is a magnet public high school in the University Heights neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, operating since its establishment in 2007 as part of the Newark Public Schools. Operating together with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the New Jersey Historical Society and Rutgers–Newark, American History High School's magnet program is designed to take advantage of the city's place in American history and its access to academic, cultural and civic resources as part of a college preparatory curriculum designed to assist students in understanding local, state and national history and preparing each student to attend college.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 436 students and 43.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.1:1. There were 347 students (79.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 23 (5.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 251st-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 198th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, the first time that the school was ranked by the magazine.