Warren Hills Regional High School

Warren Hills High School
Location
41 Jackson Valley Road
Washington, NJ 07882
Information
Type Public high school
Established 1968
School district Warren Hills Regional School District
Principal Dennis Mack (interim)
Assistant principals Glenn Barker
Sue Rader
Faculty 92.0 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 9 - 12
Enrollment 1,243[1] (as of 2013-14)
Student to teacher ratio 13.5:1[1]
Color(s)      Royal Blue
     White and
     Black[2]
Team name Blue Streaks[2]
Affiliation Skyland Conference
Website School website

Warren Hills Regional High School is a four-year public high school located on Jackson Valley Road in Washington Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Warren Hills Regional School District. The school offers a comprehensive education for students in ninth through twelfth grades. The student population includes students from Franklin Township, Mansfield Township, Oxford Township, Washington Borough and Washington Township.[3][4][5]

As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,243 students and 92.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.5:1. There were 170 students (13.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 44 (3.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

The present high school building located on Jackson Valley Road in Washington Township opened for the 1967-68 school year. An expansion of the high school building was completed in 1992, which included a new library and gym to accommodate the addition of students in ninth grade. A second expansion at the high school during the first decade of the 21st century added more classrooms, office space, gym/weight rooms, and conversion of the original gym to a new library to meet growing enrollment in the district. Recently, the district added an all-purpose athletic field, tennis courts, and practice field on an acquired tract of land on Jackson Valley Road.[3]

Student publications

The school has two newspapers and a Literary Magazine or "litmag" The official school paper The Streak has been publishing for 26 consecutive years and is published four times a year. The Renegade debuted in mid-June 2014 and is entirely run by students.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 172nd-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.[6] The school had been ranked 168th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 202nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[7] The magazine ranked the school 179th in the magazine's September 2008 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[8] Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 173rd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 54 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (79.6%) and language arts literacy (94.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[9]

Controversy

A court case in 2002 was filed by a student for wearing a shirt the school deemed inappropriate. The student was suspended after refusing to turn his shirt inside out. The student eventually filed a case that led to a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.[10]

On June 21, 2013, during the graduation ceremony for the class of 2013, a former student streaked across the field. The former student managed to outrun both a police officer and man dressed in military uniform. He was later caught 100 yards into the woods behind the stadium and arrested.[11]

Athletics

Athletics logo

The Warren Hills High School Blue Streaks[2] compete in the Skyland Conference against teams in Warren, Hunterdon, and Somerset Counties, operating under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[12] The Blue Streaks nickname dates back to at least 1932. With 933 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014-15 school year as North II, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 758 to 1,061 students in that grade range.[13] The school's traditional rival is Hackettstown High School, formerly of the Skyland Conference and now Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, and the wrestling/football rival is Phillipsburg High School.

Wrestling

The Warren Hills wrestling program was started in 1936 by Frank Bennett, a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum who also started the program at Fair Lawn High School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.[14] Warren Hills wrestling ranks second all-time in the number of individual State Champions crowned. It has produced such notables as Dan Slack, who beat future Olympian Bruce Baumgartner on the way to the State Heavyweight crown in 1977, and Ben Oberly who was a two-time State Champion (and placed 3rd his sophomore year) and ranked #1 at his weight in the nation in 1986.[15] The 1990 state championship team went undefeated and is one of only a handful of teams in the state to have ever beaten rival Phillipsburg High School twice in one year.[16]

Warren Hills holds one of the state's oldest wrestling tournaments, the John Goles Tournament, which honors one of the school's greatest coaches, and includes several wrestling programs from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. At the conclusion of the winter break tournament, there is a tourney champion and outstanding wrestler trophy presentation. Every year the wrestling team honors the record holders from previous events.

The wrestling team won the 2007 North II, Group III state sectional championship with a 33-29 victory against Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School.[17]

Football

The football program is a member of the Mid-State 38 Football Conference Raritan Division, which covers Group II and III schools from Warren, Hunterdon, Somerset, and Union counties.[18]

The 2000 football team (11-1) won the North II Group III state sectional title, with a 21-14 win against West Morris Central High School.[19][20]

The program was awarded the 1973 NJSIAA Central Group and the 1945 North Group I titles. The 1945 team was undefeated under Goles.

The program had an annual Thanksgiving game with rival Hackettstown until the 1940s. Flemington (now Hunterdon Central Regional High School) became the Thanksgiving rival until that school switched to challenge North Hunterdon High School of Clinton, in the late 1960s. From late 1960s until the game ended in the mid-1980s, the annual Thanksgiving opponent was Belvidere High School in Belvidere.

Girls athletics

In girls athletic programs, Warren Hills is also noted for its field hockey and bowling programs. Since 1970, the field hockey program won over 500 matches, winning numerous conference titles and several district titles, and since mid-2000s, the girls bowling program is emerging as a perennial powerhouse, which in 2011, went undefeated in 10 matches and won both divisional and section titles to finish 15th in the State. The school's Varsity cheerleading team won the 2013 Skyland Conference, overall and Raritan.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:[21]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 School Data for Warren Hills Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 29, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Warren Hills Regional High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 29, 2015.
  3. 1 2 History, Warren Hills Regional School District. Accessed August 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ Schools & Education, Washington Township. Accessed August 18, 2014. "Students in grades 7 and up attend the schools of the Warren Hills Regional School District. Warren Hills is a Grade 7-12 district in Warren County that serves approximately 2,100 students from the municipalities of Washington Borough, Washington Township, Mansfield Township, Franklin Township and Oxford Township (for 9-12 only). Students in grades 7 and 8 attend Warren Hills Regional Middle School (745 students) and students in grades 9 - 12 attend Warren Hills Regional High School (1,377 students)."
  5. ↑ Warren Hills Regional School District 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 18, 2015. "From the receiving districts of Franklin Township, Mansfield Township, Oxford (high school tuition students), Washington Borough and Washington Township, students progress along the academic continuum led by a faculty committed to planning and implementing a variety of instructional strategies and activities that facilitate the preparation of our students for the challenge of mastering the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards and the Common Core State Standards."
  6. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  7. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 2, 2012.
  8. ↑ "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, September 2010, posted August 16, 2010. Accessed April, 2011.
  9. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 6, 2012.
  10. ↑ THOMAS SYPNIEWSKI, JR.; MATTHEW SYPNIEWSKI; BRIAN SYPNIEWSKI v. WARREN HILLS REGIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, October 3, 2002. Accessed May 23, 2008.
  11. ↑ Olanoff, Lynn. "Streaker disrupts Warren Hills Regional High School graduation - UPDATE", The Express-Times, June 21, 2013. Accessed October 20, 2014. "About halfway through graduation, shortly before diplomas were awarded, a naked man entered the high school football field, where the graduation was being held, by hopping a 4-foot fence, according to an Express-Times freelance photographer at the event."
  12. ↑ League Memberships – 2014-2015, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2014.
  13. ↑ 2014-2015 Public Schools Group Classification: ShopRite Cup–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for North II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of July 8, 2014. Accessed October 20, 2014.
  14. ↑ Frank Bennett, National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Accessed March 6, 2012. "He was instrumental in starting wrestling at Liberty High School in Pennsylvania in 1928, Washington High School in New Jersey in 1936 and Fair Lawn in 1946."
  15. ↑ State Champions, New Jersey Wrestling. Accessed March 6, 2012.
  16. ↑ Michael Lamb, Rutgers Preparatory School. Accessed June 10, 2015. "As a wrestler, Coach Lamb wrestled for Warren Hills. He was a member of the 1990 undefeated team that went on to become the #1 ranked team in the state."
  17. ↑ 2007 Team Wrestling Tournament - North II, Group III, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed June 1, 2007.
  18. ↑ Buratti, Bruce. "Mid-State 38 Football Conference realigns for 2014 season", The Express-Times, October 29, 2013. Accessed October 20, 2014. "The Mid-State 38 Football Conference will be undergoing some relatively minor changes beginning in the fall of 2014 and extending through the 2015 season.... The biggest changes will be centered around Voorhees and Warren Hills, which both move from the Mountain Division into the Raritan Division, joining charter members Cranford, North Plainfield, Somerville and Summit with Governor Livingston also moving into the Raritan from the Mountain Division."
  19. ↑ Bierman, Fred. "HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL; For Warren Hills and Coach, the Long Wait Pays Off in a State Title", The New York Times, December 3, 2000. Accessed March 6, 2012. "When Bob Lockhart was a player at Warren Hills in the mid-1970's, the Patriots had never won a state championship. When he signed on as an assistant coach 18 years ago, they had still never won a title. In his eighth year as head coach, and with his son as the starting quarterback, Lockhart led Warren Hills to a 21-14 victory over West Morris yesterday to win the Section II, Group III title in New Jersey."
  20. ↑ Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 29, 2015.
  21. ↑ Main Office, Warren Hills Regional High School. Accessed November 29, 2015.

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