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Ocean Township High School (OTHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Ocean Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school the Ocean Township School District. OTHS serves residents of Loch Arbour and all neighborhoods within Ocean Township, including Oakhurst, Wanamassa, Wayside and West Allenhurst.〔Spoto, MaryAnn. ("N.J. appeals court sides with Ocean Twp. against Loch Arbour in school funding dispute" ), ''The Star-Ledger'', July 14, 2011. Accessed October 17, 2011.〕 The school opened in 1965, serving grades 7-11. The Ocean Township seniors completed their final year at Asbury Park High School, which all Ocean Township public school students attended prior to the construction of OTHS. Thus OTHS graduated its first class in 1967. Gradually, the 7th and 8th grade students were moved to other schools. Beginning in the 1975-76 school year, with the opening of the then 7-9 Ocean Township Intermediate School, the school only served 10-12, with the freshman class returning to OTHS for the 1978-79 school year. As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,235 students and 112.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1. There were 256 students (20.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 32 (2.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Ocean Township High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 7, 2015.〕 As of the 2013-14 school year there were 18 Advanced Placement (AP) courses offered.〔(Ocean Township High School 2013-14 School Performance Report ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 28, 2014."〕 In conjunction with Monmouth University, Ocean Township High School offers a dual credit program called MODEL to AP students. The school's average graduation rate for the past two years is 99% and 97% of students go on to post secondary education. The school's Family and Consumer Science kitchens, for culinary instruction, were remodeled in 2005. Over 93% of Ocean's teachers are at or above intermediate skill levels in the use of technology. ==Awards, recognition and rankings== In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by ''The Washington Post'', the school was ranked 55th in New Jersey and 1,637th nationwide.〔Mathews, Jay. ("The High School Challenge 2011: Ocean Township High School" ), ''The Washington Post''. Accessed September 10, 2011.〕 In ''Newsweek's'' May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Ocean Township High School was listed in 838th place, the 21st-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.〕 In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 856th in the nation among participating public high schools and 64th among schools in New Jersey.〔Streib, Lauren. ( "America's Best High Schools" ), ''The Daily Beast'', May 6, 2013. Accessed May 9, 2013.〕 The school was the 84th-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 95th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 64th 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 97th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed April 6, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 69th 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 tied for 148th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 31 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.8%) and language arts literacy (93.7%) 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.〕 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「Ocean Township High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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