Mountain Lakes High School

Mountain Lakes High School
Address
Map
96 Powerville Road

Mountain Lakes
,
Morris County
,
New Jersey
07046

United States
Coordinates40°53′40″N 74°25′32″W / 40.894502°N 74.425635°W / 40.894502; -74.425635
Information
TypePublic high school
MottoTradition of Honest Excellence
Established1936 (Briarcliff Building), 1959 (present building)[1]
School districtMountain Lakes Schools
NCES School ID341101004416[3]
PrincipalRichard Mangili[2]
Faculty60.0 FTEs[3]
Grades9-12
Enrollment569 (as of 2022–23)[3]
Student to teacher ratio9.5:1[3]
Color(s)  Orange and
  blue[4]
Athletics conferenceNorthwest Jersey Athletic Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)
NewspaperThe Mountaineer[5]
Websitehs.mlschools.org

Mountain Lakes High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Mountain Lakes, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Mountain Lakes Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1940.[6]

Students from Boonton Township attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Boonton Township School District.[7][8][9]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 569 students and 60.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.5:1. There were 7 students (1.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 1 (0.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[3]

  1. ^ Mountain Lakes Historic District, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed September 8, 2019. "This structure was built as a junior-senior high school in 1936 and served as the junior-senior high school until 1959, when the new High School was opened."
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Staff was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c d e School data for Mountain Lakes High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
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  5. ^ The Mountaineer, Mountain Lakes High School. Accessed May 16, 2022.
  6. ^ Mountain Lakes High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed July 27, 2011.
  7. ^ Mountain Lakes High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 17, 2017. "Mountain Lakes High School is a 9th through 12th grade school which serves the communities of Mountain Lakes and Boonton Township. The school enjoys an excellent reputation and also supports the enrollment of approximately 50 hearing impaired students, part of the Lake Drive Program, who travel from all over the state to attend Mountain Lakes High School."
  8. ^ Boonton Township School District 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 17, 2017. "The Boonton Township School District has one school, Rockaway Valley School, which houses a PreK through Grade 8 program for approximately 450 children. The district maintains a send-receive relationship with the neighboring Mountain Lakes School District, whereby our students attend Mountain Lakes High School."
  9. ^ Information/ MLHS Information, Boonton Township School District. Accessed January 3, 2017. "Boonton Township School District maintains a 'send-receive' relationship with Mountain Lakes High School.... Once enrolled in Mountain Lakes High School, the responsibility for the education of the student rests with the High School. While the Boonton Township School District pays tuition for all residents enrolled at the High School, the High School faculty, staff and administration bear the responsibility for all academics, student IEP's and 504's, extra-curricular activities and the students' general health, well-being and safety at school."