Which New Jersey high school did Carl Sagan graduate from in 1951?

Carl Sagan graduated from Rahway High School in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1951.

Sagan’s family moved from Brooklyn to Rahway when he was 14, and the New Jersey school became an important setting in his formative years. He graduated at age 16 and then entered the University of Chicago, one of the few universities willing to accept students that young.

His high-school years already showed the interests that shaped his later career. Sagan wrote about science and space, participated in school activities, and developed an enthusiasm for astronomy and the possibilities of space exploration. Rahway later honored its famous alumnus with a Carl Sagan Science Wing, dedicated in 1991.

The answer is sometimes confused with Princeton because Sagan became a major academic figure associated with Cornell University and worked at several prestigious institutions. But his high-school graduation took place in Rahway. At the University of Chicago, he earned degrees in physics and later completed his doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics.