Cedar Grove High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the Cedar Grove, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Cedar Grove Schools. "Committed to Excellence" is their current motto. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1968.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 479 students and 41.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 18 students (3.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 3 (0.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 103rd-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 74th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 103rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 70th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 55th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 171st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 79 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (78.9%) and language arts literacy (95.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
