John P. Stevens High School (abbr. JP or JPS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves the northern end of Edison, in Middlesex County, New Jersey. It is one of two public high schools in the Edison Township Public Schools, the other being Edison High School.
As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,130 students and 158 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.5.
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John P. Stevens High School (abbr. JP or JPS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves the northern end of Edison, in Middlesex County, New Jersey. It is one of two public high schools in the Edison Township Public Schools, the other being Edison High School.
As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,130 students and 158 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.5.
JPS has had an SAT average that has surpassed the state's mean since it opened. Moreover, about 79% of its graduates advance to four-year colleges, with many attending Ivy League schools.
The school was the 52nd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 82nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
The school is named after J.P. Stevens, an alumnus of the nearby...
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