Ridge High School is a four-year public high school serving students from Bernards Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part 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.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,729 students and 109.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.73:1. There were 20 students (1.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 10 (0.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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.
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