Sparta High School

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Sparta High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Sparta Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Sparta Township Public School District.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,142 students and 96.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. There were 25 students (2.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 21 (1.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.HistoryThe school opened in September 1959 when Newton High School in neighboring Newton, which had also served Sparta students, could no longer take on Sparta's rapidly growing high school-aged population. The sending districts of Hopatcong and Byram Township combined with Sparta to form the initial student body. In its first year of operation, Sparta High enrolled over 400 students enrolled in just three grades, from the three communities that shared the school. In May 1964, Sparta graduated its first class—of 160 students—that had attended the school for all four years.