Pennsauken High School

Pennsauken High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Pennsauken Township, Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Pennsauken Public Schools. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,518 students and 99.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.3:1. There were 143 students (9.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 44 (2.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Constructed at a planned cost of $3.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ) the school opened in September 1959 with students in ninth and tenth grades. Prior to the completion of the high school, Pennsauken students had been sent to schools outside the township at Merchantville High School. Students from Merchantville had attended the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship that began in 1972, when the borough's high school was closed. In 1992 Merchantville considered severing its send-receive relationship with Pennsauken School District so Merchantville could send them to Haddonfield Memorial High School instead, on the grounds that Merchantville saw Pennsauken High as outdated and Haddonfield Memorial as having superior facilities. Merchantville officials publicly stated in the 1980s and 1990s that they felt Pennsauken High had too many students and was too large. John Ellis, the New Jersey State Commissioner of Education, blocked Merchantville leaving the partnership on the grounds that it would cause more white students to leave Pennsauken High and turn Pennsauken High into a majority minority school. The Pennsauken District sought to recommit to ties with Merchantville.