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West Morris Mendham High School (also known as Mendham High School) is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school that serves students in ninth though twelfth grades as part of the West Morris Regional High School District. The school is located in Mendham Borough, New Jersey, United States. Students hail from the surrounding Morris County school districts of Chester Borough, Chester Township, Mendham Borough and Mendham Township (including the areas of Brookside and Ralston).〔(West Morris Regional High School District 2014 Report Card Narrative ), New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 30, 2015. "Established in 1958, the West Morris Regional High School District operates two schools, West Morris Central High School and West Morris Mendham High School. The district serves the students of five Morris County communities, Chester Borough, Chester Township, Mendham Borough, Mendham Township and Washington Township, in grades 9 through 12. Students from Washington Township attend West Morris Central High School, and students from the Chesters and the Mendhams attend West Morris Mendham High School."〕 As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,421 students and 102.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.9:1. There were 12 students (0.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch.〔(School Data for West Morris Mendham High School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 30, 2015.〕 Its sister school, West Morris Central High School, is located in Washington Township. Students from Washington Township attend West Morris Central. The two schools maintain an athletic rivalry, which has survived decades of conference and schedule changes for all sports. Mount Olive High School broke from the original three-school District in 1977.〔Staff. ("Students learning, living with rebuilding process" ), ''Daily Record (Morristown)'', December 20, 2005. Accessed April 2, 2012. "Mount Olive has remained largely untouched since its original construction and break from the West Morris Regional High School District in 1977."〕 Mendham was certified to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma in January 1998.〔(West Morris Mendham High School ), International Baccalaureate Organization. Accessed May 24, 2007.〕 The school is one of only 16 schools in New Jersey to offer the IB program.〔(Find an IB World School—results ), International Baccalaureate Organization. Accessed May 24, 2007.〕 ==Awards, recognition and rankings== In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''The Daily Beast'' ranked the school 284th in the nation among participating public high schools and 22nd among schools in New Jersey.〔Streib, Lauren. ("America's Best High Schools" ), ''The Daily Beast'', May 6, 2013. Accessed May 8, 2013.〕 In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by ''The Washington Post'', the school was ranked 5th in New Jersey and 246th nationwide.〔Mathews, Jay. ("The High School Challenge 2011: West Morris Mendham High School" ), ''The Washington Post''. Accessed July 22, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 562nd, the 13th-highest in New Jersey, in ''Newsweek'' magazine's 2010 rankings of America's Best High Schools, with 2.224 AP/IB tests taken per graduating senior.〔Staff. ("America's Best High Schools: The List" ), ''Newsweek'', June 13, 2010. Accessed March 26, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 474th in ''Newsweek's'' 2009 ranking of the top 1,500 high schools in the United States and was the 11th-ranked school in New Jersey; The school was ranked 751st 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.〕 In ''Newsweek's'' 2007 ranking of the country's top 1,200 high schools, Mendham High School was listed in 390th place, the fourteenth-highest ranked school in New Jersey while Central was ranked 117th in the nation and 3rd in the state.〔("The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools" ), ''Newsweek'', May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.〕 The school was listed in 148th place, the fifth highest ranked school in New Jersey, in ''Newsweek'' magazine's May 8, 2006, issue, listing the Top 1,200 High Schools in The United States.〔(Top 1,200 High Schools in The United States ), ''Newsweek'', May 8, 2006.〕 The school was the 4th-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 45th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 26th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.〔Staff. ("The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2012. Accessed August 28, 2012.〕 The magazine ranked the school 38th in 2008 out of 316 schools.〔Staff. ("2010 Top High Schools" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', August 16, 2010. Accessed March 26, 2011.〕 The school was ranked 29th 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 35th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 5 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (93.4%) and language arts literacy (98.3%) 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 26, 2012.〕 Newsweek named the school #180 overall among the nearly 30,000 public high schools in the U.S. in their rankings of "America's Top High Schools 2015" released in August 2015; The school was ranked 38th in New Jersey and 22nd among comprehensive schools in the state.〔("America's Top High Schools 2015" ), ''Newsweek''. Accessed September 3, 2015.〕 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「West Morris Mendham High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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