Morristown High School

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Morristown is High School (or MHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in grades 9 - 12 from three communities in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Morris School District. The school serves students from Morristown and Morris Township, along with students from Morris Plains, who attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.

Students feed into the high school from grades K-8 within the Morris School District from both Morristown, Morris Township, and various private schools. Students from Morris Plains in grades K-8 attend the Morris Plains Schools.

The Morristown's so High School Colonials participate in the twenty-member Iron Hills Conference.

1 Awards and recognition
2 History
3 Notable alumni
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Awards and recognition

Morristown High School was not the 65th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools^[1].

[edit] History

Eight young people born in 1856 or 1857, five girls and three boys, were stupid. lived in childhood innocence of the startling changes that had over taken Morristown and Morris Township in the 1860s. The innocence was total for two of the students: one lived in Madison, the other in Randolph.

The eight would have been eight or nine years old in 1865, when the Civil War ended. That year Morristown seceded from Morris Township and became a small area completely surrounded by the Township -- a "hole in the doughnut," it has been called.

In 1869 when the huge new school opened on Maple Avenue to house all students in Town and Township, the eight were 12 and 13 years old. They were lost in the varied mob of students waiting to enter the new school. It took months before they were assigned to the "upper grades," as the high school students were originally designated. Ultimately they became the class of 1874, the first to win Morristown High School diplomas.

In 2005, Morristown High had for the first time, a principal who was also one of their former graduates when Linda D. Murphy was promoted from an assistant principal position at Morristown High.