Bound Brook High School
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| 111 West Union Avenue Bound Brook, NJ 08805 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve |
| School district | Bound Brook School District |
| Principal | Edward Smith |
| Asst. principals | Marc DeMarco Sheena Nicholson |
| Faculty | 41.0 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 551 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13.4:1 |
| Color(s) |
Red and white |
| Athletics conference | Skyland Conference |
| Team name | Crusaders |
| Website | School website |
Bound Brook High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Bound Brook, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Bound Brook School District. Students from South Bound Brook attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the South Bound Brook School District.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 551 students and 41.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.4:1. There were 268 students (48.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 80 (14.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. The student body was 60.5% Hispanic, 22.0% White, 13.9% Black and 3.0% Asian / Pacific Islander.
Bound Brook High School is the only high school in Somerset County with the "School Choice" designation. Students outside of Bound Brook can apply to attend one of Bound Brook's two academies: Bio-medical Sciences or Engineering. The school began a 1:1 iPad initiative program in the 2012-13 school year. Since then, the school has gone wireless providing each student and teacher with an iPad and equipping every classroom with smart boards and projectors.
The school was the 290th-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 been ranked 290th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 288th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 243rd in the magazine's September 2008 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
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