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Ridge High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Bernards Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Bernards Township School District. Ridge High School opened in September 1961, ending a relationship under which students from the district had been sent to Bernardsville High School dating back to 1948.〔(History ), Ridge High School. Accessed June 22, 2011.〕 As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,811 students and 142.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.67:1. There were 23 students (1.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 3 (0.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Ridge High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 29, 2015.〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== During the 1986-87 school year, Ridge 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) ), United States Department of Education. Accessed May 11, 2006.〕 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."〕 During the 2009-10 school year, Ridge High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence for a second time.〔(2009 Blue Ribbon Schools: All Public and Private Schools ), United States Department of Education. Accessed October 29, 2009.〕 Ridge High School was the 9th-best public high school in 2012 as rated by the ''New Jersey Monthly'' magazine, and was the 194th best high school in the United States as rated by ''Newsweek'', being the top-rated comprehensive high school in New Jersey, beating out other high schools rated higher on the ''New Jersey Monthly'' magazine. In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 215th in the nation among participating public high schools and 16th overall (ninth among non-magnet 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 140th in the nation and eighth in New Jersey on the list of "America's Best High Schools 2012" prepared by ''The Daily Beast'' / ''Newsweek'', with rankings based primarily on graduation rate, matriculation rate for college and number of Advanced Placement / International Baccalaureate courses taken per student, with lesser factors based on average scores on the SAT / ACT, average AP/IB scores and the number of AP/IB courses available to students.〔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 3rd in New Jersey and 220th nationwide.〔Mathews, Jay. ("The High School Challenge 2011: Ridge High School" ), ''The Washington Post''. Accessed July 22, 2011.〕 Ridge High School was ranked 194th, the second-highest in New Jersey, in ''Newsweek'' magazine's 2010 rankings of America's Best High Schools.〔Staff. ("America's Best High Schools: The List" ), ''Newsweek'', June 13, 2010. Accessed March 23, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 175th in ''Newsweek's'' 2009 ranking of the top 1,500 high schools in the United States and was the third-ranked school in New Jersey, with 3.132 AP tests taken in 2008 per graduating senior and 50% of all graduating seniors passing at least one AP exam; The school was ranked 136th nationwide 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.〕 The school was listed in 98th place, the second-highest ranked school in New Jersey in ''Newsweek'' The school was the 13th-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 9th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 12th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed August 26, 2012.〕 The magazine ranked the school 24th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed February 11, 2011.〕 Before that, the school was ranked 11th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 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 27th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 1 position from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (95.2%) and language arts literacy (98.0%) 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 February 24, 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「Ridge High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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