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Type
  
Public high school

Asst. principal
  
Travis LaFerriere

Grades
  
9-12

Phone
  
+1 609-522-7922

Colors
  
White, Maroon

Principal
  
Philip Schaffer

Faculty
  
46.0 (on FTE basis)

Enrollment
  
252 (as of 2013-14)

Number of students
  
252 (2013–2014)

Wildwood High School

Address
  
4300 Pacific Ave, Wildwood, NJ 08260, USA

District
  
Wildwood Public School District

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Wildwood High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Wildwood, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Wildwood Public School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1991. Students from North Wildwood, West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest attend Wildwood High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective school districts.

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As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 252 students and 46.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 5.5:1. There were 165 students (65.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 22 (8.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

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Awards, recognition and rankings

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as honoring schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".

The school was the 285th-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 244th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 279th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 253rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 299th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 321st out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 11 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).

Athletics

The Wildwood High School Warriors compete as a member school of the Tri-County Conference, which operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 182 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014-15 school year as South Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 182 to 473 students in that grade range.

The girls basketball team won the 1991 Group I state championship vs. Cresskill High School, in 2000 vs. North Warren Regional High School and in both 2001 and 2002 against Mountain Lakes High School. The boys basketball team won the Group II state title in 1940 vs. Bogota High School and 1941 vs. Pompton Lakes High School, and won the Group I title in 1942 against Bernardsville High School, in 1961 vs. North Arlington High School and in 1964 vs. Wallington High School.

Notable alumni

  • Randy Beverly (born 1944), former professional American football player
  • Greg Fulginiti (born 1951, class of 1969), recording and mastering engineer.
  • Bill Osborn (born c. 1966, class of 1984), football scout and color analyst who played in the National Football League, World League and the Arena Football League.
  • Frank Vogel (born 1973, class of 1991), head coach of the Orlando Magic, who has also been an assistant with the Philadelphia 76ers, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, and Washington Wizards.
  • Administration

    Core members of the school's administration are:

  • Phil Schaffer, Principal
  • Travis LaFerriere, Assistant Principal / Athletic Director
  • References

    Wildwood High School Wikipedia