Hightstown Drops In NJ Monthly's School Rankings

EAST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP, NJ —Hightstown High School dropped in New Jersey Monthly’s annual list of the best schools in the state. Hightstown ranked 128th on this year’s list of New Jersey's 305 best high schools. Last year, it was 97th.

The 2018-19 rankings were released on Friday, and the results were published by Patch with permission. (See the full list here.)

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.

Hightstown High School has 364 seniors and a student-faculty ratio of 12-1. It offers 22 AP subjects, and 37.4 percent of students take at least one AP course. Seventy-one percent of students score higher than 530 on the SAT, and 81 percent were at or above 480 on the reading and writing portion of the SAT. Hightstown’s graduation rate is 94 percent, and 85.6 percent of Hightstown High School students were enrolled in college 16 months after graduation.

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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