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Spotswood High School (New Jersey)

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Type
  
Public high school

Asst. principal
  
Michael Mastroserio

Grades
  
9-12

Number of students
  
735 (2014–2015)

Lowest grade
  
Ninth grade

Principal
  
Thomas Calder

Faculty
  
66.0 FTEs

Phone
  
+1 732-723-2204

District
  
Spotswood Public Schools

Colors
  
Royal blue, Gold

Spotswood High School (New Jersey)

School district
  
Spotswood Public Schools

Address
  
105 Summerhill Rd, Spotswood, NJ 08884, USA

Athletics conference
  
Greater Middlesex Conference

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Spotswood High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade in Spotswood, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Spotswood Public Schools.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 735 students and 66.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.1:1. There were 77 students (10.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 34 (4.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Students from Helmetta, a non-operating district, attend school in Spotswood beginning in grammar school; students from Milltown attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Milltown Public Schools.

Awards, recognition and rankings

During the 1992-93 school year, Spotswood 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 159th-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 102nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 105th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 126th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 183rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Schooldigger.com ranked the school 80th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 17 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.8%) and language arts literacy (95.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).

Athletics

The Spotswood High School Chargers compete in the Blue Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference, which operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 576 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.

Cross country

  • The men's cross country team had a 36 consecutive dual meet winning streak that started in 2000 and was snapped by Metuchen High School in September 2006.
  • In the 2003 season, the men's team won the Central Jersey Group II sectional title.
  • In 2005, the men's team won the Central Jersey Group II state sectional and Group II titles and advanced to the Meet of Champions, where the team finished in 11th place.

    • Track and field

  • The 2004 men's spring track team broke Metuchen's 11-year win streak becoming 2004 Blue Division champions.
  • The 2013 men's spring track team beat division rivals Kennedy and Metuchen to finish the season undefeated and become Blue Division Champions.

    • Baseball

  • 2010 Central Jersey Group II sectional champions, with a 7-5 win over Governor Livingston High School
  • 2007 Central Jersey Group II sectional champions, with a 1-0 win over Somerville High School.
  • 2007 GMC Tournament champions.
  • 2007 NJSIAA Group II baseball state champions, defeating Sterling High School 13-2 in the semifinals and Indian Hills High School 11-1 in the group final.

    • Basketball

  • The women's basketball team won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I state sectional title in 1999 with 1 56-50 win over Montgomery High School to earn the program's first title.

    • Administration

    Core members of the school's administration are:

  • Thomas Calder, Principal
  • Michael Mastroserio, Assistant Principal

    • Notable faculty

  • Jamie Egan, musician noted for his performances with influential New Jersey ska bands Catch 22, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, and Streetlight Manifesto, was a music teacher at Spotswood's Appleby Elementary School.

    • Notable alumni

  • Michael "Jersey" Moriarty (class of 2004), bassist for the band Hey Monday.

    • References

    Spotswood High School (New Jersey) Wikipedia
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