Highland Park High School

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Highland Park High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the borough of Highland Park, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, as the lone secondary school of the Highland Park Public Schools system. The school was established in 1926 as a junior high school, serving up to grade 10. Until HPHS became a senior high school in 1937, students from Highland Park finished their education at either New Brunswick High School or Metuchen High School. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1940.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 474 students and 35.8 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 119 students eligible for free lunch and 39 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.The original school building was designed by architect Alexander Merchant and built in the 1920s. Later additions include the Science and Math wing in 1958; the English wing in 1968; the library and arts wing in the 1980s; and the cafeteria and a connected middle school in 1996. Student population peaked in the 1960s, with a population in the 900s.