Columbia High School is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school located at 17 Parker Avenue in Maplewood, New Jersey, which serves students in grades nine through twelve within the South Orange-Maplewood School District, which includes Maplewood and South Orange Townships. Columbia is often referred to by residents of South Orange and Maplewood as CHS. Columbia has been praised highly by many for its academic rigor and has received ...
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Columbia High School is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school located at 17 Parker Avenue in Maplewood, New Jersey, which serves students in grades nine through twelve within the South Orange-Maplewood School District, which includes Maplewood and South Orange Townships. Columbia is often referred to by residents of South Orange and Maplewood as CHS. Columbia has been praised highly by many for its academic rigor and has received several prestigious honors.
As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,929 students and 148 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1.
Since the days of the Revolution, a one-room stone schoolhouse had stood on a grassy area known as the Common, located close to the present intersection of South Orange Avenue and Academy Street in South Orange, NJ. ln 1814, this building blocked the construction of a new toll highway from Newark to Morristown. The 73 "Proprietors and Associates" of the...
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