Manchester Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades in Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, as the lone secondary school of the Manchester Township School District. The school also serves approximately 150 high school students from Lakehurst Borough, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Lakehurst School District. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 970 students and 83.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1. There were 203 students (20.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 50 (5.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Students from Manchester Township had attended Lakewood High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship, though by June 1964 overcrowding led the Lakewood School District to try to end the agreement under which 150 students from Manchester Township attended the Lakewood school. In October 1973, the Lakehurst district announced that its students would be shifted from Central Regional High School to the new Manchester Township High School. Completed at a cost of $6.3 million (equivalent to $ million in ) on a site covering , the school opened in September 1976 for nearly 800 students. Attendance boundary The school attendance boundary includes dependent students from the Lakehurst component of Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst. Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 220th-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 245th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 260th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 227th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 256th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Athletics Manchester Township High School Hawks compete in Division B South of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties, along the Jersey Shore. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 718 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools