state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 99th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 94th in 2010 out of 322 schools. The magazine ranked the school 85th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 90th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 201st out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 56 positions from the 2009 rank), which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). In Newsweeks May 22, 2007, issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Montclair High School was listed in 896th place, the 24th-highest ranked school in New Jersey. The school was listed in 214th place, the eighth-highest-ranked school in New Jersey, in Newsweeks May 8, 2006, issue, listing the Top 1,200 High Schools in the United States. In 2001, Montclair High School came in 2nd place in the National High School Mock Trial Championships held in Omaha, Nebraska. and was the New Jersey High School Mock Trial champion in 2006 and was named co-champion with Bordentown Regional High School in 2020 after the finals were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Montclair High School's Fed Challenge Team has ranked first in the New York Region eight times, and won the National Fed Challenge Championship in 2001. In 2005, the Montclair High School FIRST Robotics Competition Team 555 won the Arizona Regional in Phoenix, Arizona. They also won second place in the New York City Regional, as well as the web design award and the Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship award. The team then won the Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship award at the FIRST Championship in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2007, the team won the Denver Regional and the Regional Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control Award in Denver, Colorado. In 2008, they won the New York City Regional and went to the quarterfinals at the FIRST Championship in Atlanta. In 2007, 2009, and 2016, MHS won the Euro Challenge championship. In 2009 and 2013, seniors of the Civics and Government Institute at Montclair High placed 2nd in the state at the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution competition held in Trenton, New Jersey. The 2013 team