West Side High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Newark Public Schools. As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 810 students and 84.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.64:1. There were 660 students (81.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 55 (6.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.