Highland Regional High School

Set in BLACKWOOD, New Jersey, Highland Regional High School is a medium-sized senior high, one of the schools within Black Horse Pike Regional School District. It works with 1,150 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 24% above the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Black Horse Pike Regional School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 3,405 students. Highland Regional High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Highland Regional High School logs that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 32% Black, 15% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Camden County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 49% of students at Highland Regional High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Highland Regional High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.3%; this one comes in at 24.4%, -14.9 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Camden County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,755 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Highland Regional High School is one of 158 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 82,104 students).

Nearest neighbor: Blackwood Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland Regional High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Highland Regional High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Highland Regional High School has edged down 6%, going from 1,227 students in 2018 to 1,150 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 55% to 43% over that span.

On this page, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.