Jonathan Dayton High School

Jonathan Dayton High School is an American four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Springfield Township, in Union County, New Jersey, operating as part of the Springfield Public Schools. The school is named after Jonathan Dayton, a signer of the United States Constitution. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary SchoolsAs of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 630 students and 47.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 51 students (8.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 29 (4.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsIn the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 60th in New Jersey and 1,732nd nationwide. The school was the 991st-ranked public high school in the United States out of over 26,000 schools in the country, 29th in the state of New Jersey, in Newsweek magazine's "America's Top High Schools 2010" edition.