J. P. Stevens High School

John P. Stevens High School (abbr. JP or JPS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the northern end of Edison Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of two secondary schools in the Edison Township Public Schools District, the other being Edison High School. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1969.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,170 students and 152.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.3:1. There were 282 students (13.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 126 (5.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.HistoryJ.P. Stevens was founded in 1965, and rapidly expanded with North Edison. Originally, JPS was a senior high school, serving grades 10 through 12. In 1984, the Edison School District changed the junior high schools into middle schools, moving 9th grade into JPS.