Madison High School

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Madison High School is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth to twelfth grades in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Madison Public Schools. The school is located in the borough of Madison, and a portion of its property extends into the neighboring borough of Florham Park. Students from Harding Township attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 837 students and 65.8 classroom teachers (on an full-time equivalent basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. There were 39 students (4.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 13 (1.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Over 90% of the district's graduates move on to a four-year college, with half of those attending highly competitive schools.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 32nd-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 6th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 15th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 35th in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools and was ranked 48th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.