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Piscataway Township High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Piscataway Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Piscataway Township Schools. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1963.〔(Piscataway Township High School ), Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 16, 2012. Accessed March 29, 2015.〕 Piscataway Township High School is known for its exceptional football program; three former players were drafted in the first round of the National Football League draft in two years, the first time in history that such an event has occurred.〔 As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,195 students and 160.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.7:1. There were 402 students (18.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 153 (7.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Piscataway Township High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 26, 2015.〕 ==Awards, recognition and honors== The school has received the following notable awards and recognitions.〔(Awards ), Piscataway Township High School. Accessed November 8, 2009.〕 *Governor's School of Excellence, November 21, 2003〔(McGreevey Celebrates Schools that are "Getting it Right": Schools of Excellence Winners Demonstrate Effectiveness of Governor’s Education Priorities ), New Jersey Department of Education press release dated November 211, 2003. Accessed December 15, 2009.〕 *Best Practice Award, 2002-03 for Comfort Zone *Best Practice Award, 2004-05 for Life Skills and Beyond *Golden Achievement Award, 2004 *Best Practice Award, 2005-06 for Senior Citizens Outreach Program & Exchange (SCOPE) *Coalition of Essential Schools, 2005. First school in the state to be granted full membership. *National AVID School Certified School, 2006 *Amistad Fellow, 2006 Piscataway High School received an “A” and was ranked “above average to excellent” in a recent issue of Inside Jersey Magazine, a publication of the Star Ledger. The article, entitled “New Jersey’s Top Performing Public High Schools,” rated schools throughout the state based on academic achievement and test score growth over a four-year period. Piscataway High School was one of only nine schools out of twenty-seven in Middlesex County to be given an “A” rating.〔(Indide Jersey: New Jersey's top performing High Schools ), www.nj.com. Accessed July 13, 2015.〕 The school was the 144th-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 217th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 140th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed September 7, 2012.〕 The magazine ranked the school 146th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed March 22, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 177th 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 151st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 15 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (84.0%) and language arts literacy (93.0%) 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「Piscataway Township High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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