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Governor Livingston High School, known informally as ''GL'', is a comprehensive four-year co-educational public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Berkeley Heights, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, and operating as the lone secondary school of the Berkeley Heights Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1965.〔(Governor Livingston High School ), Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. Accessed June 23, 2011.〕 As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,024 students and 87.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.74:1. There were 22 students (2.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (0.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Governor Livingston High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 25, 2015.〕 Of the members of the 2012 graduating class, 87% planned to attend four-year colleges and another 7% to go to two-year colleges.〔(2012-13 profile ), Governor Livingston High School. Accessed June 23, 2013.〕 The school was built in 1960 adjacent to an active Nike Missile Control Station in the Murray Hill section of Berkeley Heights. It is the sole secondary school for students from Berkeley Heights and Mountainside for grades 9-12, who attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Mountainside School District.〔(Berkeley Heights Public School District 2014 Report Card Narrative ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 26, 2015. " In addition to serving the public school students of Berkeley Heights, high school students from the neighboring Borough of Mountainside are educated at Governor Livingston High School."〕 The high school's namesake is William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey and a signatory of the United States Constitution. The Royal Stewart tartan of the Stewart Clan (of whom Livingston was a member) is a symbol of the school and the tartan's red and blue colors are the high school's colors. ==Awards, recognition and rankings== In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 416th in the nation among participating public high schools and 35th among schools in New Jersey.〔Streib, Lauren. ("America's Best High Schools" ), ''The Daily Beast'', May 6, 2013. Accessed May 9, 2013.〕 In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by ''The Washington Post'', the school was ranked 32nd in New Jersey and 1,112th nationwide.〔Mathews, Jay. ("The High School Challenge 2011: Governor Livingston High School" ), ''The Washington Post''. Accessed August 14, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 416th in ''Newsweek's'' 2009 ranking of the top 1,500 high schools in the United States and was ranked 8th in New Jersey, with 2.293 AP tests taken in 2008 per graduating senior and 48% of all graduating seniors passing at least one AP exam; The school was ranked 707th nationwide in 2008.〔Staff. ("The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,500 top U.S. high schools" ), ''Newsweek'', June 8, 2009. Accessed June 10, 2009.〕 In ''Newsweek's'' 2007 rankings of the country's top 1,200 high schools, Governor Livingston High School was listed in 776th place, the 17th-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.〕 With the rankings calculated by Jay Mathews shifted to ''The Washington Post'' in 2011, the school was ranked 31st in New Jersey and 1,071st nationwide.〔Staff. ("2011 High School Challenge: New Jersey" ), ''The Washington Post''. Accessed June 14, 2011.〕 The school was the 36th-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 also been ranked 36th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 24th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed September 11, 2012.〕 The magazine ranked the school 15th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed February 22, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 21st 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 26th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 48 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (95.4%) and language arts literacy (98.4%) 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 23, 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「Governor Livingston High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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