Pennsville Memorial High School is comprehensive community public high school in Pennsville Township, Salem County, New Jersey, United States, that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Pennsville School District. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 450 students and 46.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.7:1. There were 101 students (22.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 29 (6.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. The Music Academy (composed of a Vocal and Instrumental Academy) and the Academy of Graphic Design in Multimedia Technology are located in the school facilities. Both of these academies are institutions hosted by Pennsville Memorial through the Salem County Vocational Technical Schools. Starting with the 2014–15 school year, the school operates on a four-block A day and a four-block B day day schedule. Each class period is 90 minutes long. The school day officially begins at 7:40 a.m., and students are dismissed at 2:15 p.m. Lunch periods are 30 minutes in duration. The school had previously had nine periods of classes that were 41 minutes each (including lunch) prior to the 2014–2015 school year. History The initial high school facility began in September 1950 as Lower Penn's Neck Memorial School. In that year, the district was spending $80,000 each year to send 500 students out of the district to attend high school as part of sending/receiving relationships. The district spent $1.23 million (equivalent to $ million in ) for an addition to Memorial School that would be used to house the high school. The high school program was started at the start of the 1955–56 school year with ninth grade students at Memorial School, prior to which high school students from the township attended either Penns Grove High School or Salem High School. Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 255th-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 159th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 209th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 206th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 257th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316