Lakewood High School (New Jersey)
Lakewood High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Lakewood Township, Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Lakewood School District. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,458 students and 87.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.7:1. There were 1,106 students (75.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 47 (3.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Students from Manchester Township had attended Lakewood High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship, though by June 1964 overcrowding led the Lakewood School District to try to end the agreement under which 150 students from Manchester Township attended the Lakewood school. The students left in September 1976 when Manchester Township High School opened. Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 324th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had also been ranked 324th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after