Central High School (Newark, New Jersey)

Central High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 766 students and 87.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.8:1. There were 618 students (80.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 19 (2.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 300th-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 277th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 274th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 278th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 304th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.AcademiesCentral is made up of three academic academies. The pre-engineering, the liberal arts academy and the health/dental sciences academy. Students choose their career track once they have enrolled and began the academic year.