MetEast High School

MetEast High School
Location
1656 Kaighn Avenue
Camden, NJ 08103
Information
Type Public high school
Motto Educating Camden's Students One at a Time
Established 2005
School district Camden City Public Schools
Principal Timothy L. Jenkins
Faculty 19.0 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 111[1] (as of 2012-13)
Student to teacher ratio 5.84:1[1]
Athletics conference Olympic Conference
Team name Trailblazers
Website School website

MetEast High School is a four-year public high school in the City of Camden, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Camden City Public Schools. The school opened in 2005 in conjunction with Big Picture Learning as an effort to prepare students for success in college through greater community involvement and mentoring.[2]

As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 111 students and 19.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 5.84:1. There were 93 students (83.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 11 (9.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 285th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 211th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 School Data for Met East High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ Mulvihill, Geoff via Associated Press. "In high-dropout Camden, Big Picture kids prep for college", USA Today, June 29, 2009. Accessed August 27, 2014. "The school opened in 2005 as a laboratory for education in a city where the schools are part of an entanglement of problems.... It's one of about 60 schools nationwide established with the help of Big Picture Learning, a nonprofit with offices in San Diego and Providence."
  3. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 11, 2012.

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Coordinates: 39°55′59″N 75°05′20″W / 39.932930°N 75.088936°W / 39.932930; -75.088936

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