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Atlantic Highlands High School was a comprehensive public high school and school district for students in seventh through twelfth grades from both Atlantic Highlands and Highlands in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Atlantic Highlands School District. The school closed at the end of the 1961-62 school year, replaced by a new regional high school.

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The final high school facility was constructed in 1920 with a designed maximum of 450 students. By the time the new regional high school was set to open, the building was serving an enrollment of 800 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The 1962 graduating class was the 65th in school history. [1]

The school closed in June 1962 and was replaced the next school school year by Henry Hudson Regional High School, which also served students from Atlantic Highlands and Highlands. [2]

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References

  1. Cleary, Fritz. "Atlantic Highlands School Is Beginning Its Last Year", Asbury Park Press , September 18, 1961. Accessed December 5, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Atlantic Highlands High School will graduate its 65th and last senior class next June. After that the school will cease to exist. 'The fact that this is the last year of high school classes in Atlantic Highlands" says Dr. Carleton M. Saunders, superintendent, "will make for a new emphasis on quality education Administrators, teachers, and Board members will be working for an orderly transition of the high school to the new Henry Hudson Regional High School," The new regional high school for which Dr. Saunders refers is the answer, approved by voters in both Atlantic Highlands and Highlands, to the overcrowded conditions in the present high school building. When the school was built in 1920 it had a capacity of 450, which easily accommodated both elementary and secondary schools. Today both schools are crowded Into the building with more than 800 pupils competing for space."
  2. Geraghty, Peter. "Henry Hudson Students at Home in Highlands", Asbury Park Press , October 8, 1962. Accessed December 5, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Henry Hudson Regional School is located atop the rolling hills of Highlands, in a beautiful woodland setting overlooking the Shrewsbury River and the Atlantic Ocean.... Students from Highlands and Atlantic High lands attended the old Atlantic Highlands High School until last June."
  3. Azzolina, Joseph. "Immigrant parents' work spurred business prosperity", Asbury Park Press , February 15, 1987. Accessed December 5, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "All the while we were attending school, first at the Highlands Public School on the hill and later at Atlantic Highlands High School."