Hammonton High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hammonton, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hammonton Public Schools. Students from Folsom Borough and Waterford Township attend Hammonton High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Folsom Borough School District and the Waterford Township School District. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,341 students and 92.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.4:1. There were 283 students (21.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 55 (4.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History Opened in 2002, Hammonton High School is the newest school facility of the Hammonton Public Schools. The school's facility on a campus covering was constructed at a cost of $33 million and opened with 1,200 students from Hammonton, as well as those from Waterford Township who shifted to Hammonton High School after the Lower Camden County Regional School District was dissolved. Awards, recognition and rankings Hammonton High School's boys' swimming and diving team was recognized with the Boys Gold Award by the 2005-06 NISCA/Kiefer Scholar Team Award. The school was the 229th-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 288th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 233rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 239th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 233rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 175th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 44 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (81.2%) and language arts literacy (92.4%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). Athletics The Hammonton High School Blue Devils compete in the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Gloucester counties, that operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). The school, a