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Somerville High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Somerville and Branchburg Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Somerville Public Schools. Students from Branchburg Township attend Somerville High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Branchburg Township School District.〔(Somerville High School 2014 Report Card Narrative ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 14, 2015. "We proudly serve a diverse population of approximately 1,200 students from the communities of Somerville and Branchburg."〕〔(Somerset County School Districts-Sending/Receiving/Regional ), Somerset County Superintendent of Schools. Accessed April 4, 2011.〕 As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,204 students and 90.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1. There were 109 students (9.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 16 (1.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for Somerville High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 29, 2015.〕 Advanced Placement (AP) courses (such as AP United States Government and Politics) and the Senior Options Program at Raritan Valley Community College allow students the opportunity to earn college credits while attending high school. During the 2004-05 school year, students enrolled in thirteen AP courses. Offerings have included AP Biology, AP Calculus (AB/BC), AP Chemistry, AP English Literature and Composition, AP French Language, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Comparative Government and Politics, AP Music Theory, AP Physics, AP Spanish Language and AP United States History. ==Awards, recognition and rankings== In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by ''The Washington Post'', the school was ranked 54th in New Jersey and 1,635th nationwide.〔Mathews, Jay. ("The High School Challenge 2011: Somerville High School" ), ''The Washington Post''. Accessed September 9, 2011.〕 In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 911th in the nation among participating public high schools and 68th 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 110th-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 76th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 77th 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 73rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed April 4, 2011.〕 Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 122nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 13 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.0%) and language arts literacy (95.5%) 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 March 4, 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「Somerville High School (New Jersey)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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