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John P. Stevens High School (abbr. JP or JPS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the northern end of Edison Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of two secondary schools in the Edison Township Public Schools District, the other being Edison High School. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1969.
As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2140 students and 149 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.32:1. There were 193 students (9.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 85 (4.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
History
J.P. Stevens was founded in 1964, and rapidly expanded with North Edison. Originally, JPS was a senior high school, serving grades 10 through 12. In 1984, the Edison School District changed the junior high schools into middle schools, moving 9th grade into JPS.
Students
The population of J.P. Stevens High School enters primarily from John Adams Middle School (Edison, New Jersey) and Woodrow Wilson Middle School.
From the time it opened through the 1980s, the school's students were mostly Caucasian, with an African American minority. Beginning in the 1980s, J. P. Stevens saw increasing numbers of Indians. The largest group of students at J.P. Stevens is Asian American. The average class size of the school is about 27 students. The school's ratio of students to computers is 12 to 1 while the state average is 4 to 1.
