Rahway High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Rahway, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Rahway Public Schools. The high school's present location was built in 1941. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1931.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,063 students and 97.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1. There were 447 students (42.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 127 (11.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 215th-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 191st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 261st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 249th in 2008 out of 316 schools. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 316th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 13 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
