Kearny High School (New Jersey)

Kearny High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Kearny in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, and operating as the lone secondary school of the Kearny School District.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,731 students and 132.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1:1. There were 715 students (41.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 153 (8.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.HistoryConstruction began on the present school facility began in 1921. Kearny High School opened for the fall semester in September 1923. The school's stadium was completed in 1925. In 1940, an addition costing $400,000 was added. In 1974, another addition was added that cost $5 million, providing a new Music and Art Department, new gymnasium, locker rooms, classrooms and parking. The school is divided into two different buildings that are connected to each other.The Kearny Museum includes a full collection of Kearny High School yearbooks.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 244th-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 224th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 230th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 235th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 200th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.