Atlantic City High School

Atlantic City High School (ACHS) is a comprehensive public high school in Atlantic City, in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the lone secondary school of the Atlantic City School District. The current school building opened in 1994 and holds approximately 2,500 students. The school serves students from Atlantic City, along with those from Brigantine, Longport, Margate City and Ventnor City, who attend the school as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective school districts. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,724 students and 146.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. There were 1,126 students (65.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 74 (4.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Atlantic City's first high school building was constructed in 1895 at Illinois and Arctic Avenues, though the building's small site did not allow much room for growth. In 1901, the high school relocated to a building at Ohio and Pacific Avenues. After the high school relocated a third time, the former building was reused as Central Junior High School for many years. The third building, located at Albany and Atlantic Avenues, opened on September 17, 1923. Constructed at a cost of over $1.75 million (equivalent to $ million in ), it included a 1,000-seat auditorium and a 6,000-pipe organ.