Hopatcong High School

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Hopatcong High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hopatcong, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hopatcong Public Schools.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 551 students and 50.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1. There were 89 students (16.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 67 (12.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.According to the New Jersey Herald, the graduation rate for Hopatcong High School is 86.8%, which exceeds the national high school graduation rate of approximately 70%.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 235th-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 289th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 200th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 174th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 158th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.