St. Joseph High School (Metuchen, New Jersey)

St. Joseph High School, also known as St. Joe's, is an independent, all-boys Roman Catholic college preparatory school located on a 70acre site in Metuchen and Edison, New Jersey. It draws students from a wide geographic area encompassing over forty school districts and over seventy grammar schools in Middlesex, Somerset, and Union counties, as well as other outlying areas. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1968.St. Joseph is operated by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, who have been active in American education since their arrival from Lyon, France in 1847. From 1901 to 1961, St. Joseph's served as a center for training and educating Brothers prior to their apostolate. The main school building was dedicated in the spring of 1963.There are both lay and religious teachers. As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 705 students and 53.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. The school's student body was 79.9% White, 6.0% Black, 7.0% Hispanic and 7.2% Asian.