Morris Hills High School is a comprehensive regional four-year public high school located in the borough of Rockaway, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of the two secondary schools of the Morris Hills Regional High School District. The high school serves students from Wharton, Rockaway Borough and parts of Rockaway Township. Students come to Morris Hills from Copeland Middle School, Alfred C. MacKinnon Middle School, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, as well as local private schools. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,185 students and 117.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.1:1. There were 173 students (14.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 67 (5.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. The campus of Morris Hills houses The Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, a science-oriented magnet school operated as a joint effort with the Morris County Vocational School District and open by competitive application to all students from Morris County. The other high school in the district is Morris Knolls High School, which serves students from Denville and portions of Rockaway Township. History The four constituent communities voted in 1949 to create the regional high school, which would allow 750 students then served by Boonton High School, Dover High School and Rockaway High School, with a goal of serving a total enrollment of 1,500. Student from Wharton, New Jersey attended Wharton High School, which opened in 1922 and closed when Morris Hills was opened. The school is located on the former Gunther Estate and opened to students on September 9, 1953. Awards and recognition For the 1996-97 school year, Morris Hills High School was named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve. The school was the 71st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 42nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 70th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 106th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 101st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.