Rutherford High School

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Rutherford High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Rutherford, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Rutherford School District. The original structure was built in 1922 and expanded in 1938, 1957 and 2005. Rutherford High School is overseen by the New Jersey Department of Education and 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 748 students and 67.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.2:1. There were 19 students (2.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 7 (0.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsDuring the 1999-2000 school year, the school was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive, which recognized the school's use of technology in the instruction process in which every classroom was wired for Internet access and a substantially higher than average level of access by students to computers.