Type Public high school Principal Andrew Seibel Phone +1 856-778-6610 Founded 1904 | Established 1904 Faculty 114.1 FTEs Color Black Lowest grade Ninth grade | |
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Asst. principals Robert McGoughDon Williams Athletics conference Burlington County Scholastic League |
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Moorestown High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Moorestown in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Moorestown Township Public Schools. Moorestown High School was established in 1904 and recently completed a $12.9 million renovation and addition project, providing a modern, state-of-the-art facility.
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- Moorestown high school theater spamalot lip dub
- Awards recognition and rankings
- Athletics
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Cross country
- Field hockey
- Football
- Ice hockey
- Lacrosse
- Rowing
- Soccer
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track and field
- Volleyball
- Administration
- Notable alumni
- References
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,337 students and 114.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 92 students (6.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 32 (2.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Moorestown High School was involved in the 2003 lawsuit Hornstine v. Moorestown, which involved school policies to prevent a student from becoming valedictorian because of her Individualized Education Program.
The first goal of Moorestown High School is to foster a school climate of mutual respect and dignify for all high school students and staff by providing the opportunity to learn in a non-threatening environment. A second goal is the continuance of educational technology application to all school programs by enabling students to access technological advances. Community standards and the expectations which the students bring to the school encourage participation.
Awards, recognition and rankings
For the 1999-2000 school year, Moorestown High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.
The school was the 14th-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 27th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 39th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. Moorestown High School is by far the highest ranked school in Burlington County. The magazine ranked the school 47th in 2008 out of 316 schools. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 93rd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 16 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.0%) and language arts literacy (94.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast ranked the school 474th in the nation among participating public high schools and 40th among schools in New Jersey.
In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 112th out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 21st among all high schools in New Jersey and eighth among the state's non-magnet schools.
Athletics
The Moorestown High School Quakers compete in the Burlington County Scholastic League (BCSL), which operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) and consists of public and non-public high schools covering Burlington County, Mercer County and Ocean County in central New Jersey. With 1,009 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as Central Jersey, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 822 to 1,068 students in that grade range.
Moorestown High School has a long history of athletic achievement, including 19 state championships in boys swimming and 15 state championships in field hockey. From 2000 through 2009, the girls' lacrosse team won ten consecutive state championships.
The NJSIAA ranks New Jersey's high school athletic programs every academic year based on their performances in various sports across athletic seasons. Among all of the state's Group III programs, MHS was ranked 2nd in 2006 (one point behind Ramapo High School), 2nd in 2007 and was the Group III winner in 2008, with performances that included first-place finishes that season in football, both boys and girls lacrosse, and boys tennis.
Sports Legends of Moorestown was presented by the Historical Society of Moorestown at the Smith-Cadbury Mansion until the end of June 2010. More than 60 athletes, most of whom are MHS alumni, representing 14 sports were featured.
Bea Thomas, a coaching institution at MHS in field hockey, girls lacrosse and girls swimming, has been featured in The New York Times and Sports Illustrated.
Baseball
Basketball
Cross country
Field hockey
Football
MHS competes in the West Jersey Football League. In 1957, the varsity football team went undefeated, 9-0, and was awarded the South Jersey Group III championship. Since the start of the playoff era in 1974, the team won the South Jersey Group III championship in 1975 and the South Jersey Group II championship in 2000. In 2007, the team went undefeated, 12-0, and won the Central Jersey Group III championship by defeating Long Branch High School, 20-6.
Ice hockey
Lacrosse
In 2001, the boys' lacrosse team won the Tournament of Champions title, defeating Summit High School by a score of 8-3 in the final game of the tournament. In 2008, the team won the state Group II championship in 2008 with a 9-8 victory against West Morris Central High School and the state Group III championship in 2011 by defeating Ridge High School by 7-3 in the title game.
Sean DeLaney (2006) was named to the 2009 and 2010 NCAA Division I lacrosse All-America team and is a member of the Denver Outlaws.
The girls' varsity lacrosse team has won 21 state championships, the most of any school in the state and more than the next four programs combined; the team has won the Tournament of Champions in six of eight years since the NJSIAA instituted the final tournament in 2007. From 1999 to 2010, the team accomplished an unprecedented level of achievement, including: A streak of 228 consecutive wins against New Jersey teams; a record of 270 wins and 12 losses versus all teams, including in-state and out-of-state powers; and 10 consecutive Tournament of Champions titles, emblematic of the state's top team.
Mary McCarthy Stefano (1983) was named to the 1985, 1986 and 1987 NCAA Division I lacrosse All-America first team and the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Jessica Champion (2003) was named to the 2007 NCAA Division I lacrosse All-America team; Margie Curran (2004) to the 2007 and 2008 team; Cara Giordano (2005) to the 2009 team; and Brooke Cantwell (2006) to the 2010 team.
Rowing
Soccer
Swimming
Tennis
Track and field
Volleyball
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are: