
“I am very much moved by this ceremony,” Alito said to an audience of dignitaries, school officials and former classmates in the newly renovated Steinert High School library, which now honors him for the ages.


Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was the unofficial homecoming king Friday evening as he stepped foot inside his old high school for a special ceremony on a special night. ranked the school as 176th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 21 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).HAMILTON – U.S. The magazine ranked the school 199th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school had been ranked 204th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 189th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. There were 133 students eligible for free lunch and 38 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe school was the 148th-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 mascot is the Spartan.As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,317 students and 99.9 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. The other high schools in the district are Nottingham High School and Hamilton High School. Steinert High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of three secondary high schools that are part of the Hamilton Township School District, located in Hamilton Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.
