Somerville High School (New Jersey)

Somerville High School
Address
222 Davenport Street Somerville , Somerset County , New Jersey 08876 United States
Coordinates	40°34′41″N 74°36′47″W / 40.577989°N 74.613026°W / 40.577989; -74.613026
Information
Type	Public high school
NCES School ID	341509005284[1]
Principal	Gerard T. Foley
Faculty	94.0 FTEs[1]
Enrollment	1,070 (as of 2023–24)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	11.4:1[1]
Campus	Suburban
Color(s)	Orange and   Black[2]
Athletics conference	Skyland Conference (general) Big Central Football Conference (football)
Team name	Pioneers[2]
Newspaper	Valkyrie[3]
Yearbook	Pioneer[3]
Website	www.somervilleschools.org/o/shs

Somerville High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Somerville and Branchburg Township in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the secondary school for Somerville Public Schools. Students from Branchburg Township attend Somerville High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Branchburg Township School District.^[4][5]

As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,070 students and 94.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1. There were 161 students (15.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 58 (5.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.^[1]

Advanced Placement (AP) courses (such as AP United States Government and Politics) and the Senior Options Program at Raritan Valley Community College allow students the opportunity to earn college credits while attending high school. AP offerings include AP Biology, AP Calculus (AB/BC), AP Chemistry, AP English Literature and Composition, AP French Language, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Comparative Government and Politics, AP Music Theory, AP Physics, AP Spanish Language and AP United States History.