 There were 1,243 students (68.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 80 (4.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.Trenton Central High School was the focus of a research study aimed at preventing obesity in students, in which student evaluations of the results played a major role in interpretation of the outcomes.The school was the 333rd-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.