Bayonne High School

Bayonne High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, operated by the Bayonne Board of Education.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,581 students and 201.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. There were 1,418 students eligible for free lunch and 310 eligible for reduced-cost lunch. As of the 2013-14 school year, the school's reported racial/ethnic make-up was 44% White, 35% Hispanic, 13% Black, 7% Asian, and 1% Multiracial.Awards, recognition and rankingsFor the 1995-96 school year, Bayonne High School was named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve.The school was the 263rd-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 317th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 242nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 248th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 273rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 219th out of 367 public high schools statewide in its 2009-10 rankings which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).