Morris Hills High School

Morris Hills High School is a 9-12 campus of mid-sized scale in ROCKAWAY, New Jersey, part of Morris Hills Regional School District, educateing 1,140 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 23% above the state mean of about 929.

Within Morris Hills Regional School District, which oversees 2 schools and 2,590 students, Morris Hills High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Morris Hills High School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 33% White, 10% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Morris Hills High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 31% of students at Morris Hills High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Morris County's rate of about 19%.

After controlling for student poverty, Morris Hills High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 51.3%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the area at large, Morris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Morris Hills High School is one campus in the mix.

Academy for Mathematics Science and Engineering is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Morris Hills High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morris Hills High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Morris Hills High School's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,300 (now 1,140). The White share of enrollment contracted from 49% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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