Garfield High School

Garfield High School is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Garfield, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Garfield Public Schools. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,120 students and 104.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 517 students (46.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 142 (12.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Garfield High School, constructed at an estimated cost of $1.8 million (equivalent to $ million in ), opened in September 1956 with about 1,040 students registered, in excess of the maximum designed enrollment of 1,000. The new school replaced two former elementary schools that had been used on an interim basis to accommodate high school students. Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 294th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 337 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2016 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools". The school was the 307th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's 2014 rankings of the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.