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Fair Lawn High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Fair Lawn, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Fair Lawn Public Schools. As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,494 students and 112.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 140 students (9.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 62 (4.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Fair Lawn High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 9, 2015.〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== For the 1990-91 and 1997-98 school years, Fair Lawn High School received the Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.〔Glovin, David. ("SCHOOLS BASKING IN GLOW OF TOP AWARD" ), ''The Record (Bergen County)'', May 28, 1998. Accessed October 26, 2014. "Fair Lawn High School learned recently that it captured its second Blue Ribbon Award this year."〕〔(Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF) ), United States Department of Education. Accessed May 11, 2006.〕 Then-Principal was named the 1998 State Principal of the Year by the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association in recognition of her work, which included being the principal of the only public high school in New Jersey (as of that time) to have won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Excellence.〔"PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR; FAIR LAWN EDUCATOR IS NO. 1 IN NEW JERSEY.", ''The Record (Bergen County)'', August 28, 1998: pL1.〕 In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 876th in the nation among participating public high schools and 66th among schools in New Jersey.〔Streib, Lauren. ("America's Best High Schools" ), ''The Daily Beast'', May 6, 2013. Accessed May 9, 2013.〕 In 2012, Newsweek ranked FLHS in the top 4% of high schools in the nation based on how hard schools challenge their students with Advanced Placement and college level courses. In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by ''The Washington Post'', the school was ranked 58th in New Jersey and 1,691st nationwide.〔Mathews, Jay. ("The High School Challenge 2011: Fair Lawn High School" ), ''The Washington Post''. Accessed August 21, 2011.〕 In ''Newsweek's'' May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Fair Lawn High School was listed in 808th place, the 19th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.〔("The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools" ), ''Newsweek'', May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.〕 The school was the 70th-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 65th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 76th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed December 2, 2012.〕 The magazine ranked the school 81st in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed March 7, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 62nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 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 tied for 72nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 7 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.3%) and language arts literacy (96.8%) 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 February 27, 2012.〕 The school musical is regularly nominated for both the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Awards as well as Helen Hayes' Metropolitan High School Theatre Awards. In 2008, the Fair Lawn High School Destination Imagination team won the New Jersey Affiliate Finals for the first time in school history. The team competed in the Obstacles, Of Course Challenge. 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「Fair Lawn High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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