Winslow Township High School
high school in New Jersey, United States
Winslow Township High School (WTHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Atco section of Winslow Township, in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Winslow Township School District. Until 2000, the facility that is now Winslow Township High School was part of the Lower Camden County Regional School District and was known as Edgewood Regional High School, which was the sister school of Overbook Regional Senior High School in Pine Hill (now known as Overbrook High School).
Students from Chesilhurst, a non-operating district, attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Chesilhurst Borough School District.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,299 students and 111.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 781 students (60.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (0.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 271st-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 299th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 309th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 274th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 297th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. In 2014-15 the boys' basketball team won the group OV state championship.
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