Clayton High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Clayton, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Clayton Public Schools.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 381 students and 36.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.6:1. There were 163 students (42.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 52 (13.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsClayton High School was named by U.S. News & World Report as one of the "Best High Schools" in New Jersey in 2012-2013.The school was the 273rd-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 184th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 224th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 210th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 244th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
