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Cedar Creek High School (New Jersey)

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Type
  
Public

Principal
  
Scott Parker

Grades
  
9th-12th

Color
  
Maroon

Founded
  
2010

Established
  
2010

Faculty
  
66.4 FTEs

Phone
  
+1 609-593-3560

Number of students
  
910 (2014–2015)

Athletics conference
  
Cape-Atlantic League

Cedar Creek High School (New Jersey)

Asst. principals
  
Susan Foreman Michael McGhee

Address
  
1701 New York Ave, Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215, USA

District
  
Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District

Similar
  
Holy Spirit High School, Mainland Regional High Sch, Atlantic County Institute o, Egg Harbor Township High Sch, St Augustine Preparato

Cedar Creek High School is a public high school in Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District and opened in September 2010. The school's colors are forest green, maroon/burgundy and cream. The school mascot is the pirate.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 910 students and 66.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.7:1. There were 310 students (34.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 65 (7.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Cedar Creek High School is located in the northern section of Egg Harbor City. The school is part of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District. For the 2010-2011 school year, students in grades 9 and 10 attended Cedar Creek and students in grades 11-12 attended either Absegami High School in Galloway Township or Oakcrest High School in Hamilton Township. For school years 2011-2012, students in grades 9-11 attended Cedar Creek High, while 12th grade students attended either Absegami High or Oakcrest High. In 2012-2013 Cedar Creek housed grades 9-12 and graduated it first senior class.

Cedar Creek High School educates students from Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township, Port Republic and Washington Township (in Burlington County). Students from Galloway Township and Hamilton Township are zoned to other schools but are eligible to attend Cedar Creek through the school of choice program.

Athletics

The Cedar Creek High School Pirates compete in the Cape-Atlantic League, which operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 716 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 496 to 778 students in that grade range.

The girls basketball team won the Group I state championship in 2012 with a 50-38 win over Whippany Park High School, earning the first state championship in any sport for Cedar Creek.

In December 2015, the boys football team won the program's first state sectional title when they won the Group II South Jersey championship with a 28-27 win against West Deptford High School, defeating the team that beat them 42-28 in 2012 when they faced each other at Cedar Creek's first championship game.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:

  • Scott Parker, Principal
  • Susan Foreman, Assistant Principal, Supervisor of Social Studies and ELL
  • Michael McGhee, Assistant Principal, Supervisor of Health Office, Media, Fine and Performing Arts
  • References

    Cedar Creek High School (New Jersey) Wikipedia