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Millburn High School is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Millburn Township Public Schools. The school enrolls students from the township of Millburn, including its neighborhood of Short Hills. The school was honored with National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence in the 2007-08 school year and was named the top-ranked high school in the state in the September 2008 and 2010 issues of ''New Jersey Monthly''. As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,531 students and 128.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. There were 28 students (1.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 5 (0.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Millburn High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 29, 2015.〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== During the 2007-08 school year, Millburn School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education,〔Addison, Kasi; and Juri, Carmen. ("Three Essex schools capture blue ribbon" ), ''The Star-Ledger'', October 7, 2007. Accessed October 14, 2007. "Principals in three Essex County schools found out last week their buildings joined an exclusive club of exemplary schools when the U.S. Department of Education named the nation's latest batch of No Child Left Behind -- Blue Ribbon Schools.... The three Essex County schools are Oakview School in Bloomfield, Millburn High School and Harriet Tubman School in Newark."〕〔(No Child Left Behind - Blue Ribbon Schools Program: 2007 Schools ), United States Department of Education. Accessed October 15, 2007.〕 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."〕 In its 2015 report on "America's Top High Schools", ''Newsweek'' ranked Millburn the #1 open-admission and #4 non-magnet school in the nation. It placed 13th overall in the U.S. and 8th in the state among all participating public high schools (including selective admission and magnet schools). All schools ranked above Millburn are selective enrollment per their respective websites and are listed as magnet programs on Wikipedia. 〔("America's Top High Schools" ), ''Newsweek'',. Accessed October 15, 2015.〕〔("TJHSST Admission" ), Accessed October 18, 2015.〕〔("Whitney HS Admissions" ), Accessed October 18, 2015.〕〔("International Academy Admissions" ), Accessed October 18, 2015.〕〔"Thomas Jefferson HS Wikipedia", Accessed October 18, 2015.〕〔"International Academy Wikipedia", Accessed October 18, 2015.〕 In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 69th in the nation among participating public high schools and 6th overall (and the highest-ranked non-magnet school) among schools in New Jersey.〔Streib, Lauren. ("America's Best High Schools" ), ''The Daily Beast'', May 6, 2013. Accessed May 8, 2013.〕 The school was ranked 83rd in the nation and fourth in New Jersey on the list of "America's Best High Schools 2012" prepared by ''The Daily Beast'' / ''Newsweek'', with rankings based 25% each on graduation rate, matriculation rate for college and number of Advanced Placement / International Baccalaureate courses taken per student, with 10% based on average scores on the SAT / ACT, 10% on AP/IB scores and an additional 5% based on the number of AP/IB courses available to students; It was the highest-ranked open enrollment (non-selective / non-magnet) school in the state.〔Staff. ("America's Best High Schools 2012" ), ''The Daily Beast'' / ''Newsweek'', May 20, 2012. Accessed May 21, 2012.〕 In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by ''The Washington Post'', the school was ranked 4th in New Jersey and 236th nationwide.〔Mathews, Jay. ("The High School Challenge 2011: Millburn High School" ), ''The Washington Post''. Accessed July 22, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 170th in ''Newsweeks 2009 ranking of the top 1,500 high schools in the United States and was the second-ranked school in New Jersey, with 3.165 AP tests taken in 2008 per graduating senior and 56% of all graduating seniors passing at least one AP exam, after being ranked 151st 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 ranking of the country's top high schools, Millburn High School was listed in 165th place, the third-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 181st, sixth-highest in New Jersey, on ''Newsweek's'' May 8, 2006, list of 1,200 U.S. high schools.〔(Top 1,200 High Schools in The United States - 2006 ), ''Newsweek'' May 8, 2006.〕 Millburn High School was ranked as Number 148 in Newsweek's 2005 rankings.〔(Top 1000 High Schools in The United States - 2005 ), ''Newsweek'' August 5, 2005.〕 The school was the 5th-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 8th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 1st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed October 28, 2012.〕 The school had also ranked highest in the state in the magazine's 2008 report.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', September 2010. Accessed September 16, 2010.〕 The school was ranked 3rd in the magazine's 2006 rankings out of 316 schools included 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 31st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 9 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (93.5%) and language arts literacy (98.5%) 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 26, 2012.〕 In 2005-06, the school averaged an 1860 combined SAT score, seventh highest of all public high schools statewide, and the highest score for any non-magnet general admission high school.〔(2005-06 School Test Score Rankings ), ''The Star-Ledger''. Accessed June 19, 2007.〕 In 1998, Jay Mathews, an author and education reporter, named Millburn High School the second-best public school in the country, according to ratios of students taking AP exams. 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「Millburn High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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