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Central High School (Newark, New Jersey)

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Central High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Newark, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 838 students and 73.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1. There were 653 students (77.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 41 (4.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

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