Somerville High School

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Somerville High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Somerville and Branchburg Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Somerville Public Schools. Students from Branchburg Township attend Somerville High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Branchburg Township School District.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,159 students and 90.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. There were 142 students (12.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 32 (2.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Advanced Placement (AP) courses (such as AP United States Government and Politics) and the Senior Options Program at Raritan Valley Community College allow students the opportunity to earn college credits while attending high school. AP offerings include AP Biology, AP Calculus (AB/BC), AP Chemistry, AP English Literature and Composition, AP French Language, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Comparative Government and Politics, AP Music Theory, AP Physics, AP Spanish Language and AP United States History.