Burlington Township High School

Burlington Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Burlington Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Burlington Township School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1971.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,297 students and 99.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1:1. There were 234 students (18.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 66 (5.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 178th-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 203rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 153rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 140th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 138th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 186th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 6 positions from the 2009 rank) 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).