Type Public Principal Dylan Rose Grades 9-12 Color Grey | Established 1960 Faculty 95.5 FTEs Phone +1 609-298-3900 Founded 1960 | |
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Asst. principals Melanie Scharadin (Grade 9)
Christopher Cataline (Grade 10 and 11)
Brandon Bennett (Grade 12) Address 160 Mansfield Rd E, Columbus, NJ 08022, USA District Northern Burlington County Regional School District Athletics conference Burlington County Scholastic League Similar Rancocas Valley Regional, Burlington Township High Sch, Hamilton Township School Di, John Hydock Elementa, Pemberton Township High Sch | ||
Northern Burlington County Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from four communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Northern Burlington County Regional School District. Students are served from Chesterfield Township, Mansfield Township, North Hanover Township and Springfield Township, along with children of USAF personnel based at McGuire Air Force Base. First opening to students upon the completion of the current building in 1960, the school is located in the Columbus section of Mansfield Township. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1966.
Contents
- Awards recognition and rankings
- Athletics
- Administration
- Extracurricular Activities
- Special Education Program
- Notable alumni
- References
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,355 students and 95.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.2:1. There were 127 students (9.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 64 (4.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 141st-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 156th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 186th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 153rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 184th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 119th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 2 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (86.1%) and language arts literacy (94.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
Athletics
The Northern Burlington County Regional High School Greyhounds compete in the Liberty Division of the Burlington County Scholastic League (BCSL), which operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association and consists of public and non-public high schools covering Burlington County, Mercer County and Ocean County in Central Jersey. With 1,020 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. The school had previously competed in Group II, but the growth in the district's population has resulted in moving up to Group III.
The school's mascot is the Greyhound, and colors are blue and grey. In 2013, Northern Burlington's Board of Education officially branded and approved the school "NB" logo and school fight song.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
Extracurricular Activities
At Northern there are many different activities for students to partake in there are about 50 clubs some of these clubs include Interact, a community ethics club, where students join forces to help the community. Which include activities like Ten Thousand Villages Sale, Relay for Life, Care Bags for Kids, nursing home party. Another example being Video Club where students talk and help produce Northern TV, Northern's own television station which provides news to its sending districts.
Special Education Program
The Special Education Program at Northern Burlington Regional High School focuses on the promotion of tolerance and appreciation of diversity of all variations. The Northern Burlington Regional High School provides Special Education students with a multitude of programs, such as in-class support, a variety of resource classrooms, replacement classes customized to the individual's particular needs as well as a Multiple Disabilities/Autistic program. The Northern Burlington Regional High School has established a Special Services Department, including Speech, Language and Behavioral Therapists, Instructional Assists as well as Special Education teachers at both the middle and high school levels.