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Pemberton Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Pemberton Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Pemberton Township School District. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools.〔(Pemberton Township High School ), Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 24, 2012. Accessed March 29, 2015.〕 As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,013 students and 101.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.03:1. There were 376 students (37.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 116 (11.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Pemberton Township High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 8, 2015.〕 A united high school for grades 9 through 12 opened at the Arney's Mount Road site in 1990; the high school was previously split with grades 9 and 10 attending Pemberton High School No. 1 on Fort Dix Road (now the Helen A. Fort Middle School) and grades 11 and 12 attending school at this building then known as Pemberton High School No. 2. In 1999, as part of its efforts to discourage students from smoking, the Pemberton Township Council established fines for students caught smoking in school bathrooms, with fines assessed at $100 for a first offense and $200 for each additional incident.〔Kent, Bill. ("IN BRIEF; The Rising Cost of Smoking, And Getting Caught" ), ''The New York Times'', February 28, 1999. Accessed September 7, 2011. "Students who are caught trying to steal a smoke in the Pemberton Township High School lavatories after March 18 will be hit with a $100 fine if it's the first time, $200 after that."〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== The school was the 293rd-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 195th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 266th 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 257th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed February 13, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 277th 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 as tied for 309th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 14 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).〔(New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010 ), Schooldigger.com. Accessed January 20, 2012.〕 Pemberton Township High School won first place in the New Jersey High School Consumer Bowl Burlington County competition, held at the Palmyra Cove Nature Park and Environmental Center in Palmyra as part of the 10th annual New Jersey High School Consumer Bowl.〔( Pemberton Township High School Takes First Place in Burlington County Consumer Bowl Competition ), New Jersey Attorney General press release dated February 6, 2006〕 PTHS has won the statewide competition in 2000, 2003 and 2004.〔(Past Consumer Bowl Winners ), New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs. Accessed May 14, 2012.〕 Pemberton Township High School Choral Music Department students have successfully auditioned into New Jersey Music Educators Association All State Mixed Chorus and All State Women's Chorus as well South Jersey Choral Directors Association (SJCDA) Region III District Chorus. In 2014 the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression "awarded" Pemberton Principal Ida Smith a Muzzle for censoring student publications.〔Clark, Lesley. ("White House 'awarded' for press freedom" ), McClatchy DC, April 10, 2014. Accessed August 11, 2014.〕〔(Jefferson Muzzles 2014 ), Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. Accessed August 11, 2014.〕 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「Pemberton Township High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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