Parsippany High School

Parsippany High School (also known as PHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of two high schools in the township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades who live in the eastern half of Parsippany-Troy Hills. Its companion school in the district is Parsippany Hills High School. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 898 students and 89.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0:1. There were 107 students (11.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 27 (3.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Before the high school opened for the 1957-58 school year, students from the township attended Boonton High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Awards and recognition The school was the 105th-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 86th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 84th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 104th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 84th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.