Cedar Grove High School

Cedar Grove High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the Cedar Grove, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Cedar Grove Schools. "Committed to Excellence" is the school's motto. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1968; The school's accreditation status was extended for seven years in Fall 2018. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 488 students and 46.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.4:1. There were 11 students (2.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 2 (0.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History After the district ended a high school program in 1917, students were sent to Bloomfield High School and later were sent to Passaic Valley Regional High School. A new Cedar Grove Memorial High School program was temporarily housed at Memorial School and opened in September 1961 with 331 students in grades 9 and 10. The new Cedar Grove Memorial High School building, constructed at a cost of $1.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ) opened in September 1962. The first graduating class coming at the conclusion of the 1963-64 school year. As part of an effort to avoid mix-ups with other schools named Memorial High School, the name of the high school was changed to Cedar Grove High School at the start of the 1988-89 school year. Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 103rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 74th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 103rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 70th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 55th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.