Hillsborough High School

Hillsborough High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hillsborough Township in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hillsborough Township School District. Students from Millstone also attend the school, after Millstone was integrated into the Hillsborough district, prior to which they had attended as part of a sending/receiving relationship. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,351 students and 171.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.7:1. There were 108 students (4.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 52 (2.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Prior to the construction of the high school, students from Hillsborough Township attended Somerville High School for grades 9-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship. The Somerville Public Schools had notified the district in the early 1960s that Hillsborough students could not be accommodated in Somerville after 1968. The Hillsborough district attempted unsuccessfully to seek partners for a regional district and had voters reject by a nearly 3-1 margin a 1964 referendum that would have allocated $2.9 million for a high school. By 1966, Hillsborough was paying tuition for nearly 500 students to attend school in Somerville for grades 9-12, with that number expected to grow to exceed 900 by 1968. Constructed at a cost of $3.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ), the not-yet-fully-completed school opened in September 1969 with 730 students in grades 9 and 10, with those in grades 11 and 12 completing their high school education in Somerville.