Īn additional overflow site, the Clifton High School Annex, was constructed at a cost of $17 million and opened in September 2009 to accommodate 540 of the school year's 850 incoming freshmen to alleviate overcrowding. The current high school building on Colfax Avenue was completed at a cost of $6 million (equivalent to $60 million in 2022) and opened in September 1962 with 3,000 students. A new building was dedicated in April 1926, by which time the school served an enrollment of 1,100.

The district established a high school in 1906, with 40 students, with a curriculum that covered 'English, Latin, Greek, German, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting.' By 1914, the school had 150 students. There were 1,192 students (40.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 188 (6.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. Īs of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,962 students and 212.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.0:1.

It has the largest student body in a single facility amongst high schools in New Jersey Elizabeth High School had more students, but its students have been spread over multiple campuses. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Clifton Public Schools. North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)Ĭlifton High School (CHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from the city of Clifton in Passaic County, in the U.S.

Lyons township high school demographics