Fair Lawn High School

Fair Lawn High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Fair Lawn, Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Fair Lawn Public Schools. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,576 students and 116.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.6:1. There were 142 students (9.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 51 (3.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Approved in June 1941, construction of the building was delayed due to World War II and the challenges it caused in obtaining the materials needed to complete the project. The school, constructed at a cost of $700,000 (equivalent to $ million in ), opened in September 1943 with nearly 900 students in seventh through eleventh grades in a building with 29 classrooms and a capacity to serve a maximum enrollment of 1,070 students. Those students from Fair Lawn in twelfth grade who had previously attended Hawthorne High School, Paterson Central High School or Ridgewood High School completed their studies at their receiving school through graduation. Awards, recognition and rankings For the 1990–91 and 1997-98 school years, Fair Lawn High School received the National Blue Ribbon Award of Excellence from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve.