Irvington High School

Irvington High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school in Irvington, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades, as the lone secondary school of the Irvington Public Schools. IHS has three main floors and a basement, with each floor holding up to 23 classrooms. A west wing of the building was erected in the 1970s. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,565 students and 115.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.6:1. There were 879 students (56.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 101 (6.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Before Frank H. Morrell High School was completed in 1926, the district's high school program was housed at Madison Avenue School. Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 331st-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 309th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 287th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 307th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was bottom-ranked, 316th, in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.