Elmwood Park Memorial High School

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Elmwood Park Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Elmwood Park, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Elmwood Park Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1963.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 726 students and 48.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.0:1. There were 251 students (34.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 84 (11.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 214th-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 248th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 210th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 201st in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 237th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.