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High Point Regional High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school and school district, which serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from five municipalities in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students from the five municipalities of Branchville Borough, Frankford Township, Lafayette Township, Sussex Borough and Wantage Township.〔(High Point Regional High School 2014 Report Card Narrative ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 3, 2015. "High Point Regional High School is a comprehensive high school serving the diversified needs of the three surrounding K through 8 school districts of Lafayette, Frankford, Montague, and Sussex-Wantage."〕〔(Home page ), High Point Regional High School. Accessed September 11, 2013. "High Point Regional High School is located in rural Sussex County, New Jersey, where over one thousand students attend from the five municipalities of Branchville, Frankford, Lafayette, Sussex and Wantage."〕 The high school was established in 1963 and is located in Wantage Township. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education. As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,009 students and 89.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.31:1. There were 81 students (8.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 24 (2.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for High Point Regional High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 3, 2015.〕 The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.〔(NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 19, 2014.〕 Starting in September 2014, high school students from Montague Township began attending High Point Regional High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship under which incoming ninth graders will attend the High Point district while existing students attend high school in Port Jervis.〔(Montague Township School District 2014 District Narrative ), New Jersey School Report Card. Accessed March 21, 2015. "In September 2014, the district began to transition incoming ninth grade students from the Port Jervis City School District in Port Jervis New York into High Point Regional School District in New Jersey. The transition of high school students into High Point Regional School District will be complete by 2017."〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== For the 1997-98 school year, High Point Regional High School received the National Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.〔(Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF) ), United States Department of Education. Accessed May 11, 2006.〕 The school was the 142nd-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 88th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 125th 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 157th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed February 27, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 151st 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.〕 The school was recently ranked first of 53 schools in the state in the "DE" District Factor Group by ''The Star-Ledger'' and second in the DFG by ''New Jersey Monthly'' magazine. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 124th out of 389 public high schools statewide in its 2012 rankings (an increase of 7 positions from the 2011 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (88.6%) and language arts literacy (95.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).〔(New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2011-2012 ), Schooldigger.com. Accessed September 11, 2013.〕 From the New Jersey Department of Education's "Violence, Vandalism, and Substance Abuse in the Schools" report for 2012-2013, Patch released a list of the "9 Most Violent School Districts in New Jersey", with High Point Regional High School ranking number 5, preceded by Camden County Vocational School.〔(9 Most Violent School Districts in New Jersey ), Patch.com. Accessed December 9, 2013.〕 These numbers brought much surprise to both students and parents in the district, considering the school's strong efforts to combat bullying with the "Students Against Being Bullied" organization founded by one of High Point's own students. 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「High Point Regional High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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