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Black Horse Pike Schools Move Up In NJ Monthly's School Rankings

All three Black Horse Pike Regional Schools moved up in NJ Monthly's annual high school rankings, released on Friday.

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — All three Black Horse Pike Regional School District high schools moved up 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.)

Highland was the highest ranked of the district's schools, checking in at No.207. It was No. 270 last year. Timber Creek moved up to 236 from 251, and Triton moved up to 272 from 282.

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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