Most of the Edison High School students come from either Herbert Hoover Middle School or Thomas Jefferson Middle School, though some come from Woodrow Wilson Middle School and John Adams Middle School as part of the STEM Academy.[citation needed]. Additionally, the elementary school students who go to Edison High School are those who went to John Marshall Elementary School, Washington Elementary School, Lincoln Elementary School, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Lindeneau Elementary School, and James Monroe Elementary School.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,393 students and 159.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.0:1. There were 976 students (40.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 193 (8.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
History
Edison High School opened in 1956 as the district's first secondary school. By the start of the 1957–58 school year, the school was holding double sessions for students in grades seven through ten. J. P. Stevens High School opened in 1964, as part of an effort to alleviate overcrowding at Edison High School that made it the last school in the district that was still holding double sessions in order to accommodate the volume of students.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 135th-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 174th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 169th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 177th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 155th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Curriculum
Edison High School students are required to take four years of English, three (formerly four) years of math, three years of science, three years of history (two of U.S. followed by one of World) and at least two years of a foreign language (selected from Latin, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and starting in 2008, Italian). In addition, attendance at health and physical education classes are required every year. Starting with the Class of 2008, one year of "Career Education and Consumer, Family and Life Skills" such as Foods or Technology Fundamentals is required as well as a year from the "Visual Performing Arts" such as Chorus, Band, Visual Arts, Clothing for Fashion, and Architectural Drawing. EHS has an Honors college preparatory track that features several Advanced Placement (AP) courses.
Extracurricular activities
The school has several bands such as their concert band for their freshmen. The Symphonic Band is for sophomores, juniors and seniors. The Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Indoor Percussion Ensemble, and Marching Band.
The Eagle Marching Band performs at all varsity football games. The Eagle Marching band took home two state titles in 2002 and 2003 for their shows the "Rise and Fall of Rome" and "Medusa" which they performed in Group IV Open. In USSBA Group III Open competitions, the Marching Band was undefeated and took home title of first place group III Open at state championships and Northern States Championships in 2006 with their show entitled: Breaking Boundaries: In 2013, they took first place in State as well as National Championships, with their program "Playback". In 2014, they took first place in State as well as National Championships, with their program "The Grind", and they became the first school in the Edison district to win National championships back to back. They won 1st place in state, regional, and national competitions. In 2020, they becoming State and National champions as a USBands Division 3 Band. They also won 1st place in USBands State, NJMBDA State, and USBands National championships.
Athletics
The Edison High School Eagles compete in the Greater Middlesex Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools located in the Middlesex County area and operating under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 1,490 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. The football team competes in Division 5D of the Big Central Football Conference, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group V South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 1,333 to 2,324 students.
The school participates as the host school / lead agency for a joint ice hockey team with Metuchen High School and J. P. Stevens High School. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.
Baseball
The baseball team won the Central Jersey Group IV state sectional title in 1969 and won the Group IV championship in 1981 (defeating Hackensack High School in the tournament final), 1982 (vs. Hackensack), 1991 vs. (Morris Knolls High School) and 1993 (vs. West New York Memorial). The 1981 team won the Group IV title with a 4–0 win against Hackensack. The 1982 team defeated Hackensack by a score of 4–0 to win their second consecutive Group IV title and run their season record to 25–3. The Eagles won the GMC Red Division championship and won the 2007 Baseball - North II, Group IV state sectional championship with a 10–4 win versus Westfield High School. Edison High plays on a Red and Vegas Gold artificial turf baseball field, constructed in 2020 ata cost of $1.3million.
Football
The football team won the Central Jersey Group IV state sectional championship in 1976 and 1991 and Group 5 Champion in 2022. The 1976 team won the Central Jersey Group IV state sectional title with a 19–0 win against Woodbridge High School in the championship game, avenging a 7–0 loss to Woodbridge in their Thanksgiving Day matchup. The team won its second (and most recent) sectional title in 1991 with a 20–16 win against Middletown High School North in the championship game; the 1991 team earned consideration from the Courier News as one of "the best in GMC history" During the 2022 Championship run the Eagles came back from 14 points down with less than four minutes left in the Fourth Quarter against archrival North Brunswick. The Eagles scored two touchdowns, one after an on side kick, then went for two but were denied. Now with less than a minute, North Brunswick waved flags and celebrated but Selbin Sabio kicked a second on side kick and Yasko's son Matt drove the team down the field for a game winning field goal by Sabio. That team was coached by EHS's all time winningest coach, Matt Fulham. Eagles won the sectional title avenging a playoff loss from three years earlier against Cherokee High School.
Bowling
The girls bowling team won the overall state championship in 1986–1988, 1992 and 2000. The program's five state titles are the fifth-most of any school in the state.
Softball
The softball team won the Group IV state championship in 1987 (defeating Belleville High School in the final round of the tournament), 1990 (vs. Clifton High School) and 1991 (vs. West Milford High School). The 1987 team finished the season with a record of 23-2 after defeating Belleville by a score of 7–0 to win the Group IV title. NJ.com / The Star-Ledger ranked Edison as their number-one softball team in the state in 1987.
Administration
The school's principal is James Falco. Core members of the school's administration team include the four assistant principals.
Rich Gaspari (born 1963, class of 1981), three-time IFBB Mr. Olympia Runner-up (1986, 1987 and 1988) who was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame in 2004
Robert Pastorelli (1954–2004, class of 1972), actor best known for the seven years he played painter Eldin Bernecky on the television series Murphy Brown
↑Home Page, The Eagle's Eye. Accessed December 24, 2019. "The Eagle's Eye is a newspaper created and published by the student body of Edison High School in Edison, New Jersey."
↑"12,600 to Answer Edison School Bell", Courier News, September 2, 1964. Accessed January 18, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Key staff appointments this year include the assignment of Kenneth W. Diffenderfer to replace Dr. Myra Biggs as principal of the Lincoln Schools and Harold R. Alley as principal of the new $2.7 million John P. Stevens High School on Grove Ave. The Board of Education in the last decade has tried to eliminate double sessions first in the elementary levels and then in the junior and senior high schools. Only Edison High School students faced double sessions last year."
↑Kinney, Mike. "Big Central revises 2020 football schedule for its shortened inaugural season", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 12, 2020. Accessed April 18, 2021. "The newly formed Big Central Football Conference has released a revised 2020 schedule for its inaugural season.... the BCFC is comprised of schools from Middlesex, Union, Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties."
↑"Hackensack is beaten, 4-0", The Record, June 7, 1981. Accessed December 29, 2020, via Newspapers.com. "Figueroa pulled the second pitch to left field for a single to break up unbeaten Joe Lynch's no-hitter and provide one of Hackensack's few high moments in a 4-0 Group 4 championship loss to Edison in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association tournament"
↑Bruns, John. "Edison wins state crown; Spearnock shines as Eagles win", The Home News, June 10, 1982. Accessed March 10, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Not only did Edison High School repeat as the NJS1AA Group IV baseball champion yesterday by defeating Hackensack again, but the Eagles did it by the same score, 4-0.... The victory gave Edison a 24-3 record and the Eagles can add the Middlesex County Conference title to their laruels with a victory over Cedar Ridge today."
↑Tufaro, Greg. "Edison High School breaks ground on state-of-the art baseball diamond and multi-use turf field", Courier News, January 22, 2020. Accessed December 15, 2023. "Five months ago, the Edison Township Board of Education approved construction of the $1.34 million turf field at no additional expense to taxpayers, footing the bill through the district's current capital reserve fund, including money the district saved from negotiating its contracts with vendors, according to Ralph Errico, the school board's president.... The warning track, base lines, batter's box and pitcher's mound will be designed in Vegas gold, while the rest of the field will be shaded scarlet red, making Edison's field distinct and unique."
↑Tufaro, Greg. "Which football team is the best in GMC history?", Courier News, August 15, 2018. Accessed November 20, 2020. "Edison 1991 (Central Group IV) With All-State performer Rusty Swartz, who went on to play linebacker at Rutgers University, running behind an offense line that featured Albert Jackson, another All-State selection, Edison ended a 15-year sectional championship drought with what remains only the second such title in school history.... Current head coach Matt Yascko played wide receiver for the championship team, which defeated Middletown North 20-16 for the sectional title."
↑Fox, Ron. "Belleville suffers crushing defeat", The Record, June 7, 1987. Accessed January 4, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Belleville's Laura Caruso was determined when she dug in for her seventh-inning at-bat in yesterday's New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Group 4 softball final.... They had hoped for the title. Instead, they suffered through their worst day, a 7-0 loss to Edison.... When the team finally settled down behind her, pitcher Janine Luzzi (12-2 and 0.79 ERA coming in) handcuffed Edison (23-2) on three hits and one run over the last four innings."
↑"Softball: Every No. 1 team in the state from 1979 to 2015", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, June 21, 2015, updated August 24, 2019. Accessed January 4, 2021. "Following are the teams that finished as the NJ.com No. 1 softball team in the state with year and record.... 1987: Edison (23-2)"
↑Administration, Edison High School. Accessed October 19, 2026.
↑Ambassador Gayleatha B. Brown BiographyArchived June 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Benin. Accessed September 29, 2007. "She was educated in the Red Jacket Elementary School, Matewan Elementary and High Schools in Mingo County, West Virginia; and Edison Township High School, Edison, New Jersey."
↑"Edison High School", Home News Tribune, July 19, 2007. Accessed February 2, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Edison High School graduated 510 students June 21 at the Rutgers Athletic Center.... The salutatorian was Omar Maskati."
↑Tamari, Jonathan. "Mutts: Animall House", Home News Tribune, December 28, 2003. Accessed December 17, 2025, via Newspapers.com. "The creative work for the daily strips starts five weeks in advance, but for McDonnell, 47, the process began more than 40 years ago.... He kept the habit through his time at Edison High School, where he says his notebooks were probably filled more with cartoons than notes."
↑Tufaro, Greg; McGurk, Tom; Falk, Steven; Havsy, Jane; Newman, Josh; Stapleton, Art. From the field to the booth: These New Jersey athletes became sports broadcasters", The Record, October 18, 2019. Accessed October 20, 2019. "Walter Perez - The former All-State football player at Edison, from which he graduated as Walter Percy, is a reporter and anchor for Channel 6 Action News in Philadelphia (ABC affiliate)."
↑Zach Perez, William Paterson Pioneers. Accessed October 10, 2019. "Hometown: Edison, N.J... as a captain and was named the team's Most Valuable Player as a junior at Rutgers Prep… Won a Greater Middlesex County title at Edison H.S. during his freshman campaign"
↑Staff. "Rick Stromoski, 77' EHS Alumni, Presentation & Fundraiser", TAPinto.net, November 27, 2014. Accessed February 2, 2022. "Rick Stromoski, a 1977 Edison H.S. Alumni and award winning cartoonist will do a power point presentation illustrating his career from his roots in Edison to present day providing lots of laughs and some drawings as well."
