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The Kittatinny Regional High School is a six-year comprehensive regional public high school and school district in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in seventh through twelfth grades from five municipalities in the northwest area of the county, which are Fredon Township, Hampton Township, Sandyston Township, Stillwater Township and Walpack Township.〔(Kittatiny Regional School District 2014 Report Card Narrative ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 20, 2015. "Located in beautiful, rural Sussex County in northwest New Jersey, Kittatinny Regional School District serves the five municipalities of Fredon Township, Hampton Township, Sandyston Township, Stillwater Township and the Township of Walpack. The District is comprised of 125 square miles and has a school population of approximately 1200 students."〕 The high school is located in Hampton Township, about seven minutes outside of the county seat of Newton. As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,103 students and 91.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.05:1. There were 68 students (6.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 39 (3.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Kittatinny Regional School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 20, 2015.〕 The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-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 20, 2014.〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== During the 1997-98 school year, Kittatinny Regional High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education,〔(Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF) ), Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Accessed March 23, 2011.〕 the highest award an American school can receive.〔"CIBA cited as one of the best by Education Department", ''Journal Inquirer'', November 16, 2006. "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores over several years or show significant gains in student achievement. It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve."〕〔Viers Mill School Wins Blue Ribbon; School Scored High on Statewide Test; ''The Washington Post''. September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S. Education Department can bestow upon a school."〕 Kittatinny Regional High School has been recognized as a Star School District, and in the 2005-06 school year, was awarded the honor of Governor's School of Excellence. The school was the 133rd-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 89th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 149th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed September 3, 2012.〕 The magazine ranked the school 163rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed March 5, 2012.〕 The school was ranked 149th 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 155th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 8 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (82.0%) and language arts literacy (94.6%) 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 5, 2012.〕 In the 2013-14 school year, Kittatinny Regional High School ranked fifth in Sussex County out of nine other public high schools in SAT scores.〔http://www.state.nj.us/education/pr/1314/37/372465050.pdf〕 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「Kittatinny Regional High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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