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Dover High School is a four-year public high school located in Dover in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades and operating as the lone secondary school of the Dover School District. The high school serves students from Victory Gardens, which has been consolidated into the Dover School District since 2010.〔Martin, Liz. ("Voters have their say on the budgets" ), ''Neighbor News'', April 28, 2010. Accessed May 10, 2015. "The school board goes from 11 members to 10 after this election as the temporary Board seat assigned to the Victory Gardens representative Danielle Press expired permanently on April 20. Now that Victory Gardens has merged with the Dover school district, there will no longer be a dedicated Victory Gardens seat on the Board. Any resident from either Dover or Victory Gardens will be eligible to run for any available Board seat."〕〔("Victory Gardens" ), ''Daily Record (Morristown)''. Accessed May 10, 2015. "Students in grades K-12 attend Dover public schools."〕〔(13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated ), New Jersey Department of Education press release dated July 1, 2009. Accessed May 10, 2015.〕 Students from Mine Hill Township attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.〔(Dover High School 2014 Report Card Narrative ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 10, 2015. "Dover High School, located 40 miles from New York City, services approximately 900 high school students from the Town of Dover, the Borough of Victory Gardens, and the Township of Mine Hill."〕 As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 824 students and 73.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.17:1. There were 379 students (46.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 134 (16.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Dover High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 10, 2015.〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".〔Rundquist, Jeanette. ("15 N.J. schools named as national 'Blue Ribbon' winners" ), ''The Star-Ledger'', September 24, 2013. Accessed September 25, 2013. "Five Catholic schools, six county vocational-technical schools and a Yeshiva are among the list of honored schools in New Jersey. Also named as 2013 Blue Ribbon Schools were Dover, Harrison and Wildwood high schools."〕〔(2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private ), pp. 15-17. United States Department of Education, National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Accessed September 25, 2013.〕 The school was the 238th-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.〔Staff. ("Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.〕 The school had been ranked 223rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 220th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed August 24, 2012.〕 The magazine ranked the school 215th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed April 4, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 229th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.〔("Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.〕 Schooldigger.com ranked the school 172nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 89 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.2%) and language arts literacy (88.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).〔(New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011 ), Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 6, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dover High School (New Jersey)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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