Randolph High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Randolph Township, in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Randolph Township Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1973.Randolph High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 15, 2012. Accessed March 29, 2015.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,275 students and 117.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1. There were 134 students (10.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 37 (2.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Randolph High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 15, 2026.
History The efforts to create a high school began after the district was notified by the Dover School District in 1957 that Randolph students would no longer be accepted at Dover High School for the 1960–61 school year. The partially completed school opened for grades 7–12 in September 1961 on a site and was constructed at a cost of cost of $1.75 million (equivalent to $ million in ) for students from Randolph and those from Jefferson Township, who attended as part of a sending/receiving relationship until the 1964–65 school year, when Jefferson Township High School opened."Randolph High School: Timeline", Daily Record, May 17, 2005. Accessed April 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com."43 New Schools Set For Opening in N.J.", Courier-Post, August 23, 1961. Accessed April 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Morris County - Randolph Township High School. $1,763,544"
The current high school facility opened in October 1975, having been constructed at a cost of $7.2 million (equal to $ million in ), at which point the original 1961 high school building was repurposed as Randolph Middle School.
Awards and recognition The school was the 16th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2016 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014. The school was the 63rd-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 37th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 52nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed August 23, 2012. The magazine ranked the school 65th in 2008 out of 316 schools.Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 11, 2011. The school was ranked 32nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state."Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
The school was named by Redbook magazine in April 1992 as the best high school in the state, recognizing the school for its academic and extracurricular performance.van Tassel, Priscilla. "'Smiling School' Wins National Recognition", The New York Times, May 3, 1992. Accessed November 19, 2020. "Don't tell Ridgewood High School, Westfield High, Moorestown High or any of the other schools in New Jersey that are often touted as the best in the state, but Redbook magazine, in an article in last month's issue on the nation's public high schools, has proclaimed Randolph High School as New Jersey's finest. This 1,200-student high school in Morris County, known more for its performance on the athletic field than off, may not have the recognition factor of some other schools, but it has in fact been gathering laurels in academic subjects and extracurricular activities as well as sports for most of its 30 years. And that was what led Redbook's panel of judges to select the school from among the 25 that applied for the honor."
Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 90th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 24 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (87.9%) and language arts literacy (96.1%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 2, 2012.
Athletics The Randolph High School RamsRandolph High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. participate in the regional Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, which is composed of public and private high schools located in Morris, Sussex and Warren counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).Home Page, Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference. Accessed August 27, 2020. "The Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference prides itself on being one of New Jersey's premier high school conferences and is comprised of 39 high schools located in Northwest New Jersey."League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. Prior to the NJSIAA's 2010 realignment, the school had competed as part of the Iron Hills Conference, which included public and private high schools in Essex, Morris and Union counties.Home Page, Iron Hills Conference, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 2, 2011. Accessed December 3, 2014. With 1,182 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range.NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020. The football team competes in the Freedom Blue division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league.Cooper, Darren. "Here's what we know about the new Super Football Conference 2020 schedule", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference (SFC) is a 112-team group, the largest high school football-only conference in America, and is comprised of teams from five different counties."Cooper, Darren. "NJ football: Super Football Conference revised schedules for 2020 regular season", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference has 112 teams that will play across 20 divisions." The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 893 to 1,315 students.NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2024–2026, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024.