St. Joseph High School (Metuchen, New Jersey)

St. Joseph High School is an independent, all-boys Roman Catholic college preparatory school located on a site in Metuchen and Edison, New Jersey. It draws students from a wide geographic area encompassing over forty school districts and over seventy grammar schools in Middlesex, Somerset, and Union counties, as well as other outlying areas. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen.

St. Joseph is operated by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, who have been active in American education since their arrival from Lyon, France in 1847. From 1901 to 1961, St. Joseph’s served as a center for training and educating Brothers prior to their apostolate. The main school building was dedicated in the spring of 1963.

There are both lay and religious teachers. As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 798 students and 49.4 faculty members (on an FTE basis), resulting in a student–teacher ratio of 16.2., National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 12, 2011.

History

The Brothers of the Sacred Heart move to Metuchen

Brothers Stanislaus Florent and Philip Lindner moved into a three-story roadhouse in 1902 with the intention of setting up a training center for novices. Their funds were limited and finding willing recruits for the novitiate proved to be difficult as few people had heard of the...
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