University High School (New Jersey)

University High School of Humanities is a six-year public high school serving students in seventh through twelfth grades in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Newark Public Schools.Originally created as a program called "School Within a School" at South Side High School, University High School became a standalone school in 1977.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 557 students and 44.0 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. There were 399 students eligible for free lunch and 34 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 237th-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 171st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 131st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 66th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 146th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 55th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 27 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (91.6%) and language arts literacy (97.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).