Bayonne High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school

High school

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 (grades 9-12) located in Bayonne

Bayonne, New Jersey

Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is a peninsula that is situated between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east...

, Hudson County

Hudson County, New Jersey

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, New Jersey

New Jersey

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, operated by the Bayonne Board of Education

Bayonne Board of Education

Bayonne Board of Education is a comprehensive public school district serving students from Prekindergarten through twelfth grade in Bayonne, New Jersey....

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As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,570 students and 175 classroom teachers (on a FTE

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 basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.69.

The school was the 242nd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly

New Jersey Monthly

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magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 248th in 2008 out of 316 schools.