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Jefferson High School Not Ranked in Report

Just nine of Morris County's schools makes Newsweek's annual rankings list.

While ranking the nation’s top 2,000 public high schools, including 93 from New Jersey, Jefferson Township High School didn’t make Newsweek’s annual list of standings.

Nine schools in Morris County made the top 2,000, eight of which stand at number 625 or higher.

Jefferson Township High School went unranked in 2012 as well.

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Newsweek prefaced the list by saying the schools were ranked by how effective they were in turning out college-ready graduates. There are six components that factored into the listing methodology:

  • Graduation rate
  • College acceptance rate
  • AP/IB/AICE tests taken per student
  • Average SAT/ACT scores
  • Average AP/IB/AICE scores
  • Percent of students enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course

Morris County schools ranked in the report are as follows:

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Rank School

 Graduation   Rate (%)

 College  Bound (%) Avg SAT Avg ACT Avg AP Score 173 Chatham High School 100 97 1747 26.6 3.9 284 West Morris Mendham High School 99 96 1727 25 3.5 296 Madison High School 100 96 1695 23.9 3.9 415 Montville Township High School 99 94 1698 25 4 535 West Morris Central High School
98 94 1661 23 3.4 575 Hanover Park High School 96 97 1596 22.8 3.6 591 Kinnelon 96 97 1648 24.1 3.3 625 Whippany Park High School
97 93 1617 23 3.7 1272 Morristown High School 84 90 1622 25 3.6

What do you think of the report? Does Jefferson Township, based on this methodology, deserve to be in the rankings?


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