Middletown High School South is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of the two secondary schools of the Middletown Township Public School District. The other school in the district is Middletown High School North. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1977.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,425 students and 110.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1. There were 75 students (5.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 19 (1.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsIn its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 497th out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 51st among all high schools in New Jersey and 34th among the state's non-magnet schools.
