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Type
  
Public high school

Principal
  
Matthew Genna

Faculty
  
63.6 FTEs

Phone
  
+1 856-962-5701

Established
  
1910

Asst. principal
  
Douglas Newman

Enrollment
  
718 (as of 2014-15)

Color
  
Gold

Collingswood High School

Address
  
424 W Collings Ave, Collingswood, NJ 08108, USA

District
  
Collingswood Public Schools

Motto
  
It's where you want to learn.

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Collingswood High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Collingswood in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Collingswood Public Schools.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 718 students and 63.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1. There were 264 students (36.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 72 (10.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Students in grades 9-12 from Woodlynne attend Collingswood High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Woodlynne School District. Students in grades 10-12 from Oaklyn attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Oaklyn Public School District.

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Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 208th-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 262nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 267th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 237th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 235th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Extracurricular activities

  • The school is a host to a championship marching band. The Collingswood Panther Marching Band, under the direction of Joe Lerch since 2003, has captured titles for the United States Scholastic Band Association (USSBA) All-States and New Jersey state championships in the years 2004 and 2005, and participated in the National Championships in 2006, 2007, and 2009. They have performed for the Philadelphia Phillies (3 times), the Philadelphia Phantoms, and were the honorary band for the Susan G. Komen Walk for the Cure on Mother's Day 2008. Most recently the Collingswood High School Panther Marching Band captured the Tournament of Bands 2010, 2012 and 2013 Southern NJ Chapter One Championships, the 2012 and 2013 Tournament of Bands New Jersey state championship, and the 2013 Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Championship.
  • Clubs and Organizations at Collingswood High School include the Anime Club, Spanish Club, German Club, French Club, Latin Club, BeatMakers Club, Junior Black Student Union, Poetry Club, The Paw Print student paper, and Boys and Girls State.
  • The Academic Challenge team has been ranked #1 in South Jersey.
  • Athletics

    The Collingswood High School Panthers compete as a member school in the Colonial Conference, which is composed of small schools whose enrollments generally do not exceed between 750-800 students for grades 9-12 and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 554 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 school has a cooperative co-ed swimming program with Audubon High School as the lead agency that expires at the end of the 2016-17 school year.

    Sports offered at the high school include:

  • Boys
  • Fall - soccer, football, cross country
  • Winter - basketball, wrestling, bowling, swimming
  • Spring - track & field, baseball, tennis, volleyball
  • Girls
  • Fall - soccer, tennis, cross country, field hockey, cheerleading, volleyball
  • Winter - basketball, swimming, bowling
  • Spring - track & field, softball, lacrosse
  • The girls' lacrosse team won the sport's first overall state championship (defeating Moorestown Friends School in the tournament final), and again in 1977 (vs. Moorestown High School), 1979 (vs. Moorestown Friends) and 1982 (vs. Moorestown); The program's four state championships are tied for third-most in the state.

    The field hockey team won the 2000 team won the South, Group II state sectional championship with a 2-1 win against Camden Catholic High School in the tournament final. The 2004 field hockey team won the Group II state championship, defeating West Essex High School in the tournament final.

    In 2006 the Collingswood wrestling team won their first South Jersey Group II state sectional championship, defeating Cinnaminson High School by a final score of 43-17. The 2008 team won the Colonial Conference and South Jersey Group I championships.

    The 2007-08 girls basketball team won the Colonial Conference and South Jersey Group II championships, defeating Glassboro High School by a score of 47-42 to earn the team's first sectional title since 1986, when they won the Group II state title over Harrison High School.

    The 2007-08 boys basketball team won the Colonial Conference and South Jersey Group II championships, edging Cinnaminson High School by a 70-69 score.

    Administration

    Core members of the school's administration are:

  • Matthew Genna, Principal
  • Notable alumni

  • B. J. Averell (born 1979, class of 1998), co-winner of The Amazing Race 9.
  • Jacqueline Crahalla, former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
  • William K. Dickey (1920–2008, class of 1938), speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority.
  • Cathy Engelbert (born 1965, class of 1982), First female CEO of Deloitte.
  • Michael Landon (Eugene Orowitz) (1936–1991, class of 1954), actor who had the nation's longest high school javelin throw - 193' 4" - in 1954.
  • Edwin Mills (born 1928, class of 1946), economist, professor emeritus at Northwestern University.
  • Ray Narleski (1928-2012), professional baseball pitcher who played for the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers.
  • Matthew Quick (born 1973, class of 1992), author of The Silver Linings Playbook.
  • Richard Sterban (born 1943, class of 1960), bass singer who joined the country and gospel quartet The Oak Ridge Boys.
  • Gary Williams (born 1945, class of 1963), former head coach of University of Maryland's men's basketball team.
  • References

    Collingswood High School Wikipedia