Watchung Hills Among Top 50 Best High Schools In NJ

WARREN, NJ — Watchung Hills High School has been ranked among the best high schools in the Garden State by New Jersey Monthly magazine.

Watchung Hills, which serves Warren, Watchung and Green Brook came in as the 46th best high school in New Jersey and was the 4th best in Somerset County.

Watchung Hills has a student-to-faculty ratio of 12:1 and 26 Advanced Placement subjects offered. A total of 55 percent of 11th- and 12th-graders are taking at least one Advanced Placement class. A total of 42.3 percent took an Advanced Placement exam scored at least a three on the test.

The vast majority of students, 76 and 91 percent, score at least 530 and 480 on the math and reading and writing sections of the SAT, respectively.

To arrive at the rankings, NJ 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.)

New Jersey Monthly also published graduation rates and the percentages of students enrolled in college 16 months after high school.

Topping the list was McNair in Jersey City, a magnet school. After that, you'll see a mix of schools that haven't always appeared at the top of these lists (Ramapo, Haddonfield, and West Morris Central).

To see the entire list, click here.

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