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West Morris Central Ranked 46 In NJ By Schools Review Site

Review includes school data as well as student, parent, and alumni opinions.

Another ranking, another high standing among its peers.

In its 2015 nationally-compiled list of top high schools, niche.com ranks West Morris Central number 46 on the list of New Jersey schools, giving it “A” grades in nine of 10 categories. The school received a “C+” in student culture and diversity.

Rankings from separate publications in 2014 had Central higher, including number 11 by New Jersey Monthly Magazine and number 220 by Newsweek. Both of those scores rose from their respective publications’ previous rankings.

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Niche.com’s methodology wasn’t just based on statistical data like graduation rates and test scores; it includes student, parent, and alumni opinions from surveys given.

The website used “data sourced from various government and public data sets, Niche’s own proprietary data, and 4,625,227 opinion-based survey responses across a variety of topics from 287,560 current students, recent alumni, and parents.”

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See the full methodology here, and see the full New Jersey list here.

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