Memorial High School (West New York, New Jersey)

Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in West New York, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades. The school is the lone secondary school of the West New York School District, an Abbott district that serves all of West New York. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1970.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,879 students and 144.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1. There were 1,273 students (67.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 123 (6.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.HistoryIn 2005, the New Jersey Schools Development Authority determined that the Memorial High School building was equipped to hold 918 students, making the school 882 students over capacity. In January 2012, the NJSDA forwarded the West New York Board of Education's application for the purchase of St. Joseph of the Palisades Elementary School to Vatican City, with which West New York hopes to turn into a "freshman/sophomore academy" to house between 700 and 800 of the high school's students. Upon the anticipated papal approval of the purchase of the school, which belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, the SDA will make a final decision on development plans.