West Morris Regional High School District
School district in Morris County, New Jersey, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The West Morris Regional High School District is a limited purpose regional public high school district in New Jersey that serves students from the surrounding Morris County communities of Chester Borough, Chester Township, Mendham Borough, Mendham Township and Washington Township.[3][4] Elementary school students of the constituent municipalities attend separate K-8 school districts maintained by four of the five municipalities; Chester Borough and Chester Township schools are consolidated under the Chester School District and the remaining three municipalities each have their own districts (Mendham Borough Schools, Mendham Township Public Schools and Washington Township Schools).[4]
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10 South Four Bridges Road
, Morris County, New Jersey, 07930United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40.80851°N 74.730149°W / 40.80851; -74.730149 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grades | 9-12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Superintendent | Barbara Sargent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Business administrator | L. Douglas Pechanec | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schools | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Enrollment | 2,240 (as of 2021–22)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty | 189.4 FTEs[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Student–teacher ratio | 11.8:1[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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District Factor Group | I | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | www | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprising two schools, had an enrollment of 2,240 students and 189.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1.[1]
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts.[5]
Both schools in the district are accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History[6] and the International Baccalaureate program.[7][8] In August 2015, West Morris Central (ranked 151st) and Mendham (18th) were ranked among "America's Top High Schools 2015" by Newsweek magazine.[9]
West Morris Mendham High School was ranked as the seventh-most challenging public, non-magnet, non-charter high school in 2017 by The Washington Post and the most challenging such school in New Jersey.[10]