Orange High School

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Orange High School is a three-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in tenth through twelfth grades from Orange in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Orange Board of Education. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1928.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 834 students and 81.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.2:1. There were 567 students (68.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 61 (7.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 305th-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 232nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 315th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 308th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 276th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.