Type Public high school Superintendent Dr. Carol Birnbohm Phone +1 856-983-5140 Colors White, Brown, Orange | Established 1975 (1975) Faculty 181.3 FTEs Founded 1975 | |
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Principal Donna Charlesworth (North)Leonard Iannelli (South) Asst. principals Scott Agnew (North)David Belville (South)Shannon Bretz (North)Chris Callinan (North)Steve Ciancitto (South)JoAnn Jankowski (South)Steve Lee (North)Dave New (South) Similar Marlton Middle School, Cherry Hill East High School, Mooresto High School, Eastern Regional High Sch, Cherry Hill West High School | ||
Cherokee High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of four high schools of the Lenape Regional High School District in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The communities in the district are Evesham Township, Medford Lakes, Medford Township, Mount Laurel Township, Shamong Township, Southampton Township, Tabernacle Township and Woodland Township. Cherokee serves students from Evesham Township. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1978.
Contents
- Awards recognition and rankings
- Athletics
- Administration
- Notable alumni
- Other high schools in the district
- References
The school was known as simply Cherokee High School until the addition of the "South" building in 2001, at which time the original building was renamed as "Cherokee High School North."
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,205 students and 181.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1. There were 177 students (8.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 85 (3.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 80th-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 157th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 134th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 152nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 131st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 86th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 30 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (87.9%) and language arts literacy (97.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
Athletics
The Cherokee High School Chiefs participate in the Olympic Conference, which consists of public and private high schools located in Burlington County and Camden County, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,656 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,082 to 1,934 students in that grade range.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
Notable alumni
Other high schools in the district
Other schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are: