Princeton High School

Princeton High School (PHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Princeton, in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Princeton Public Schools district, which serves all public school students in Princeton. Students from Cranbury Township attend PHS as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Cranbury School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1932 and is accredited through January 2026. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,534 students and 129.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. There were 110 students (7.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 23 (1.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. PHS is notable for its high academic standards and arts programs that rival many of the nation's elite private schools. The school has been ranked among the top open-enrollment public high schools in the state and nation. The New York Times recognized the school as having the highest SAT scores of any open-enrollment public high school in the state in 2009. The school had the fourth-best average combined SAT scores of any open-enrollment public high school in the state in 2019. Overview