Piscataway Township High School

Piscataway High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Piscataway in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Piscataway Township Schools. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1963. Piscataway Township High School is known for its football program; three former players were drafted in the first round of the National Football League draft in two years, the first time in history that such an event has occurred. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,143 students and 154.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.9:1. There were 538 students (25.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 212 (9.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Awards, recognition and honors The school has received the following notable awards and recognitions. Governor's School of Excellence, November 21, 2003 Best Practice Award, 2002-03 for Comfort Zone Best Practice Award, 2004-05 for Life Skills and Beyond Golden Achievement Award, 2004 Best Practice Award, 2005-06 for Senior Citizens Outreach Program & Exchange (SCOPE) Coalition of Essential Schools, 2005. First school in the state to be granted full membership. National AVID School Certified School, 2006 Amistad Fellow, 2006 Piscataway High School received an "A" and was ranked "above average to excellent" in a recent issue of Inside Jersey Magazine, a publication of The Star-Ledger. The article, entitled "New Jersey's Top Performing Public High Schools," rated schools throughout the state based on academic achievement and test score growth over a four-year period. Piscataway High School was one of only nine schools out of 27 in Middlesex County to be given an "A" rating. The school was the 144th-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 217th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 140th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 146th in 2008 out of 316 schools.