Weequahic High School

Weequahic High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in the Weequahic section of Newark in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school is operated by the Newark Public Schools and is located at 279 Chancellor Avenue. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1935. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 396 students and 32.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1. There were 277 students (69.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 18 (4.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 325th-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 258th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 310th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 305th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 308th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 353rd out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 6 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). History Construction of the high school was completed in 1932 and classes began in September 1933. Max J. Herzberg was the first principal and remained as the leader of the high school for 18 years until his retirement in 1951.