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Bridgeton High School

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Type
  
Public high school

Faculty
  
112.5 FTEs

Phone
  
+1 856-455-8030

Color
  
White

Lowest grade
  
Ninth grade

Principal
  
Lynn B. Williams

Grades
  
9-12

District
  
Bridgeton Public Schools

Athletics conference
  
Cape-Atlantic League

Bridgeton High School

School district
  
Bridgeton Public Schools

Asst. principals
  
Azeem Ahmad Stephen Lynch Steven Morris

Address
  
111 West Ave N, Bridgeton, NJ 08302, USA

Bridgeton high school graduation 2016


Bridgeton High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from the city of Bridgeton, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Bridgeton Public Schools, an Abbott District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1931.

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Students from Downe Township and Lawrence Township attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.

As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,243 students and 112.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1. There were 87 students (7.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 17 (1.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Bridgeton high school graduation 1979


Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 334th-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 had been ranked 273rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 303rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 297th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 283rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Athletics

The Bridgeton High School Bulldogs compete in the National Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference consisting of both parochial and public high schools located in Atlantic County, Cape May County, Cumberland County, and Gloucester County, operating under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 976 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 794 to 1,078 students in that grade range.

The boys baseball team won the South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship in 1962 and were runner-up to Livingston High School in 1976 for the Group IV state championship.

The boys indoor track team won the Group III state championship in 1989, 1991 and 1994, and won the Group II title in 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2002. The girls indoor track team won the Group III state championship in 1993 and 1994, and the Group II title in 1998 and 2000.

The boys' and girls' track teams were the CAL champions for the 2005-06 season. The boys outdoor track team was the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Group II state champions.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:

  • Lynn B. Williams - Principal
  • Azeem Ahmad - Assistant Principal
  • Steve Lynch - Assistant Principal
  • Steven Morris - Assistant Principal
  • Notable alumni

  • Julie Ann Dawson (born 1971), horror fiction writer, RPG designer and publisher.
  • Nadia Davy (born 1980), Jamaican track athlete who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
  • Braheme Days Jr. (born 1995), shot putter.
  • James Galanos (born 1925), fashion designer.
  • Helen Gandy (1897–1988) Secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover for 54 years.
  • George Jamison (born 1962), NFL linebacker who played for the Detroit Lions.
  • Harvey Johnson (1919–1983), head coach of the NFLs Buffalo Bills in 1971.
  • Brison Manor (born 1952), defensive lineman who played eight seasons in the National Football League for the Denver Broncos, from 1977-1984.
  • Harold E. Pierce (1922-2006), dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon.
  • Shana Williams (born 1972), former track and field athlete who competed in the long jump.
  • H. Boyd Woodruff (1917-2017), soil microbiologist who discovered actinomycin and developed industrial production by fermentation of many natural products, including cyanocobalamin (a synthetic form of Vitamin B12), the avermectins and other important antibiotics.
  • References

    Bridgeton High School Wikipedia