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Manchester Township High School

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Type
  
Public high school

Principal
  
R. Dennis Adams

Grades
  
9–12

Color
  
Gold

Established
  
1974

Faculty
  
88.3 FTEs

Phone
  
+1 732-657-2121

Motto
  
"Excellence by Example"

Manchester Township High School

Vice principals
  
Stacie Ferrara Keith Lister Tracey Raimondo

Address
  
101 S Colonial Dr, Manchester Township, NJ 08759, USA

District
  
Manchester Township School District

Welcome to manchester township high school


Manchester Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades in Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, as the lone secondary school of the Manchester Township School District. The school also serves approximately 150 high school students from Lakehurst Borough, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Lakehurst School District.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 997 students and 88.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1. There were 233 students (23.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 64 (6.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

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Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 220th-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 245th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 260th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 227th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 256th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Athletics

Manchester Township High School Hawks compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore. All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County, and the league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 724 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 boys' track team won the Group II state championship in 1998.

The boys bowling team won the overall state championship in 2003 and won the Group II state championship in 2010.

On October 17, 2013, the school's freshman cross country team won the Ocean County Cross Country Freshmen race (2-mile course) with a record setting team average of 10:54.71, the fastest in meet history.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:

  • R. Dennis Adams, Principal
  • Stacie Ferrara, Vice Principal
  • Keith Lister, Athletic Director/Vice Principal
  • Tracey Raimondo, Vice Principal
  • Notable alumni

  • Kevin Malast (born 1986), former football linebacker who played in the NFL for the Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans.
  • Andrew Valmon (born 1965), Olympic gold medal-winning runner in both 1988 and 1992 in the 4x400 meters relay.
  • References

    Manchester Township High School Wikipedia