Motto Home of the Rockets CEEB code 310518 Phone +1 732-264-8411 Number of students 968 (2014–2015) | Opened September 1962 NCES School ID 341368003826 Color Grey | |
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Type Comprehensive public high school School district Hazlet Township Public Schools Address 419 Middle Rd, Hazlet, NJ 07730, USA District Hazlet Township Public Schools | ||
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Raritan High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hazlet Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hazlet Township Public Schools. The school was named after the former community name, Raritan Township, and opened in September 1962 with an enrollment of 778 students, increasing to over 2,300 students by 1979.
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- Awards recognition and rankings
- Athletics
- Administration
- Notable alumni
- References
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 968 students and 77.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. There were 105 students (10.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 42 (4.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Raritan High School is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education and by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 2000. The school offers students a comprehensive program of education ranging from an academically oriented, college preparatory curriculum to courses in the vocational and career oriented field.
In May 2010, the Hazlet Township Board of Education embarked on a trial of "Going green to save green" by agreeing to enter into a power purchase agreement with a third-party vendor. Under this agreement, solar panels are to be erected on awnings over the student parking lot at Raritan High School and on the rooftop of Hazlet Middle School. The $7.5 million project will be funded by the vendor to cover the costs of construction and maintenance in their entirety and in return the Hazlet school district has contractually agreed to purchase the electricity at a below market cost. The district expects to save $1.7 million in energy costs over the next 15 years.
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Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 166th-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 175th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 166th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 164th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 153rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 137th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 19 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.5%) and language arts literacy (95.3%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
Athletics
The Raritan High School Rockets compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore. All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 692 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as Central Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 498 to 750 students in that grade range.
The school participates in a cooperative ice hockey program with Freehold High School as the host school / lead agency, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2016-17 school year.
The boys' cross country team won the Group II state championship in 1964 and the Group III title in 1969 and 1970.
The boys' bowling team won the overall state championship in 1971.
The baseball team won the Group II state championship in 2003 vs. Hanover Park High School in the title game.
The boys' basketball team won the Group III state championship in 2004, defeating Manasquan High School in the tournament final.
The football team won the Central Jersey Group II state sectional championships in 2004. The team won the Central Jersey Group II state sectional championship in 2015 with a 28-26 win over Lincoln High School on a touchdown that came with 10 seconds left on the clock.
The wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group II state sectional title in 2004. The team won the 2006 Shore Conference Class A Central title. With a 19-4 record, the team reached the finals of the NJSIAA Central Jersey. The 2012 wrestling team won the Class A Central title, with a 24-6 team record, the team won the Central Jersey Group II sectional championship (the team's second state sectional title and first time since 2004) and the program's first NJSIAA Group II state championship.
The girls' track and field team won the 2007 Shore Conference A-Central Division title and in that same season defeated Red Bank Catholic High School's girls' track and field team for the first time in the school's 45-year history.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are: