JP or JPS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the northern end of Edison, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

[10] Located in the Oak Tree neighborhood of the township, it rapidly expanded as the northern part of Edison grew, including residents from the Stephenville and New Dover communities.

From the time it opened through the 1980s, the school's students were mostly Caucasian, with an African American minority coming from the Potters neighborhood.

[26] In 2015, CNN featured J.P. Stevens as "The $2.5 billion high school", highlighting three e-commerce companies founded by recent graduates.

During the FIRST Robotics Competition during 2020-2021, The Warhawks were finalists for the Global Innovation Challenge, sponsored by Star Wars: Force For Change.

[32] The J.P. Stevens High School Hawks[2] compete in the Red Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference, which operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).

[37] Interscholastic sports offered include:[2] The football team won the Central Jersey Group IV state sectional title in 1977, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1985 and 2001.

[38] The 1977 team finished the season with a 10-0-1 record and won its first playoff-era title with a 35–0 victory against Middletown High School North in the Central Jersey Group IV championship game.

[39][40] The 1978 team won the Central Jersey Group IV title with a 14–7 win against Watchung Hills Regional High School.

[41] In 2001, the team finished the season with a 12–0 record after winning the Central Jersey Group IV title with a 14–7 win against Old Bridge High School in the championship game on a touchdown scored with just over a minute left in the game; the 2001 team earned consideration from the Courier News as one of "the best in GMC history".

[42][43] Janet Smith won the girls' 5,000 meter race at the 1983 Kinney National High School Cross-Country Championships held in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, with a time of 16 minutes 43.7 seconds.

[45] The softball team finished the 2000 season with a 24–6 record after winning the Group IV state championship, defeating runner-up Clifton High School by a score of 4–0 in the tournament finals.

[46][47] The wrestling team won the North II Group IV state sectional championship in 2004[48] The Model United Nations club, JPSMUN, has performed well for years, and has consistently ranked among the top 10 high schools in America.

The team has made Top 16 of 68 in the Bridgewater-Raritan Invitational Tournament of Excellence (BRITE) three times in a row and once was a quarter-finalist.

In 2009, for the first time, the STARS were named Champions in BRITE and placed 30th out of 119 at Questions Unlimited's National Academic Championship.

Moreover, the Chamber Choir received the Special Prize of an autographed copy of the first four measures of Morten Lauridsen's "O Magnum Mysterium," presented by the composer.

In 2024, former band director Andrew DeNicola was inducted posthumously into the New Jersey Hall of Fame as the first ever Educator of the Year.

Each year, a number of students audition and are selected to participate in both CJMEA Regions II and All-State Orchestra.

Since the foundation of the company, several Broadway and off-Broadway shows have been performed; some notable include: Grease, Into the Woods, Pippin, The Wiz, Leader of the Pack and Urinetown: The Musical.

The theatre company's production of Urinetown garnered several honorable mentions and nominations by the NJ Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Awards.

Other productions by the company from the past include Macbeth, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown and Working among others.

The theatre company put on a production of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind in November 2007.

The company put on perhaps their most successful and lauded show ever: the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in April 2008.

Their musical for the 2020 school year was The Addams Family, but the production was cut to two show nights due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Likewise, due to the pandemic, the company did not have a formal fall show, but opted to present a series of online one-acts under the title of "Virtuality."

The fall play for the 2021-22 school year was Almost, Maine by John Cariani, and the musical was Mamma Mia!.

All produce grown is sold at the farmstand in front of the school during select hours of the day or is donated to local food banks.