Barringer High School, formerly Newark High School, is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools. Some consider it to be the third oldest public high school in the United States. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1981.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 537 students and 53.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.1:1. There were 408 students (76.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 6 (1.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 327th-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 313th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 311th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 306th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 303rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
