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Cherry Hill High Schools Drop In NJ Monthly's School Rankings

Both of the township's high schools fell in NJ Monthly's annual high school rankings, released on Friday.

CHERRY HILL, NJ — Both of Cherry Hill's two high schools dropped in New Jersey Monthly’s annual list of the best schools in the state. The 2018-19 rankings were released on Friday, and the results were published by Patch with permission. (See the full list here.)

Cherry Hill High School East was ranked No. 66, 29 spots lower than last year's ranking of 37. Cherry Hill High School West was ranked No. 144, 44 spots down from its ranking of 100 last year.

New Jersey Monthly also published information that shows: grade 12 enrollment; student-faculty ratio; number of AP subjects offered; percentages of 11th and 12th grade students taking AP courses; percentages of students scoring high on the SAT; and the graduation rates. The figures also include the percentages of students enrolled in college 16 months after high school.

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To arrive at the rankings, New Jersey Monthly looked at the state Department of Education's most recent New Jersey School Performance Reports. Only public high schools were included in the rankings. (You can read more about the methodology here.)

You can read New Jersey Monthly’s whole story here, and download all the information.

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