Maple Shade High School
Maple Shade High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grades from Maple Shade Township, in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Maple Shade School District. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 888 students and 82.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 219 students (24.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 54 (6.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Prior to the school's opening in 1972, the township's students had attended Merchantville High School in neighboring Camden County for 40 years. With the loss of Maple Shade students, the Merchantville School District closed its high school after the end of the 1971–72 school year and started sending its students to Pennsauken High School for grades nine through twelve. Constructed at a cost of $4.6 million (equivalent to $ million in ), the school for grades 7-12 was built on a site and designed to accommodate a maximum enrollment of 1,350 students. Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 267th-ranked public high school in New