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Type
  
Public

Principal
  
Nate Webber

Grades
  
9 - 12

Phone
  
+1 609-631-4150

CEEB code
  
311483

Faculty
  
99.9 FTEs

Enrollment
  
1,317 (as of 2014-15)

Colors
  
Dark green, White

Steinert High School

Address
  
2900 Klockner Rd, Hamilton Township, NJ 08690, USA

District
  
Hamilton Township School District

Motto
  
Do not go where the path may lead; Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Athletics conference
  
Colonial Valley Conference

Similar
  
Notre Dame High School, Trenton Central High Sch, Robbinsv Township Board of, Hightstown High School, West Windsor ‑ High Sc

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Steinert High School (also known as Hamilton High School East) is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of three secondary high schools that are part of the Hamilton Township School District, located in Hamilton Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The other high schools in the district are Nottingham High School (Hamilton High School North) and Hamilton High School (Hamilton High School West). The school mascot is the Spartan.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,317 students and 99.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 133 students (10.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 38 (2.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

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Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 148th-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 204th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 189th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 199th in 2008 out of 316 schools. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 176th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 21 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).

Courses

Steinert offers Advanced Placement (AP) courses in AP United States History, AP European History, AP Computer Science, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP English Literature and Composition, AP United States Government, AP Statistics, and AP Calculus.

Sports

The Steinert High School Spartans compete in the Colonial Valley Conference, which operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 948 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 maintains sports rivalries with fellow Hamilton schools: the Hamilton West Hornets and the Nottingham Northstars.

School colors are dark green and white. Sports offered include baseball (men), basketball (men and women), cross country (men and women), field hockey (women), football (men), golf (men), ice hockey (men), lacrosse (men and women), soccer (men and women), softball (women), swimming (men and women), tennis (men and women), track and field spring (men and women) and wrestling (men).

Baseball

The baseball team won the Group III state championship in 1978 (defeating Teaneck High School in the tournament's final game), 1998 (vs. Bayonne High School), 1999 (vs. Morris Knolls High School), 2000 (vs. Bloomfield High School), 2006 (vs. Randolph High School), and won the Group III title in 1992 (vs. Hoboken High School) and 1996 (vs. Nutley High School); the team's seven state titles are the second-most of any public school program in the state. The 1992 baseball team defeated Hoboken High School, 5-4, to win the NJSIAA Group III state championship. The squad finished with a 31-1 record, the most wins ever recorded in a season by a Mercer County baseball school. The team was inducted into the Steinert Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.

Softball

The girls' softball team won the 2004 NJSIAA Group IV state championship. The team won the 2016 Group III state title with a 6-2 win against Middletown High School South in the tournament's final round.

Field hockey

The field hockey team won the North II Group IV state sectional championship in 2000 and the Central Jersey Group IV title in 2007. In 2007, the field hockey team won the Central Jersey, Group IV state sectional championship with a 1-0 win over Toms River High School South in the tournament final.

Boys' soccer

The boys' soccer team won the Group IV state championship in 1966 (as co-champion with Bloomfield High School), 1969 and 1970 (as co-champions with Hackensack High School both years), 1971 (vs. Kearny High School), 1973 (vs. John F. Kennedy High School (Paterson)), 1975 (as co-champion with Kearny High School) and 1977 (vs. Livingston High School), and won the Group III state title in 1984 (vs. Indian Hills High School) and 1988 (vs. West Morris Mendham High School); the program's nine state titles are tied for third-most among all public school soccer teams

Girls' soccer

In 2007, the girls soccer team won the Central, Group IV state sectional championship with a 1-0 win over Jackson Memorial High School in the tournament final.

Sister schools

The two other high schools in the district (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:

  • Hamilton High School (also known as West; 1,244 students)
  • Nottingham High School (North; 1,360)
  • Notable alumni

  • Samuel Alito (born 1950), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Bill Baroni (born 1971), Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who previously represented the 14th Legislative District in the New Jersey Senate.
  • Wayne DeAngelo (born 1965), represents the 14th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2008.
  • Dan Donigan (born 1966), retired United States soccer forward, former head coach of Saint Louis University Men's Soccer team and current head coach of Rutgers University Men's Soccer team. In 1999, he was named by The Star-Ledger as one of the top ten New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1980s.
  • Dave Gallagher (born 1960), former MLB outfielder.
  • Eddie Gaven (born 1986), midfielder for the Columbus Crew.
  • Dahntay Jones (born 1980), G/F for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.
  • Chris Pittaro (born 1961), former MLB second baseman and current Oakland Athletics National Field Coordinator.
  • Bobby Smith (born 1951), North American Soccer League All Star defender and National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee who won three league championships, one in Philadelphia and two with the New York Cosmos.
  • Notable staff

  • Duane Robinson (born 1968), was the first overall pick of the Illinois Thunder in the 1990 National Professional Soccer League Draft.
  • References

    Steinert High School Wikipedia