 The original high school building was constructed at a cost of $370,000 as an addition to an existing school, and dedicated in ceremonies held in April 1941.The current building was constructed at a cost of $3,625,000 and opened in 1959 on South Prospect Avenue to accommodate the post war Baby Boom and replaced the combination junior/senior high school (formerly called Warren J. Harding) on the corner of Clinton and Washington Avenue, which become a middle school.The school was the 122nd-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.