Cedar Creek High School (New Jersey)

Cedar Creek High School
Address
1701 New York Avenue Egg Harbor City , Atlantic County , New Jersey 08215 United States
Coordinates	39°33′06″N74°37′40″W / 39.551686°N 74.627839°W / 39.551686; -74.627839
Information
Type	Public
Established	September 2010
School district	Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District
NCES School ID	340606003115 [1]
Principal	Scott Parker
Faculty	78.5 FTEs [1]
Grades	9th-12th
Enrollment	929 (as of 2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio	11.8:1 [1]
Color(s)	Forest Green and   Maroon [2]
Athletics conference	Cape-Atlantic League (general) West Jersey Football League (football)
Team name	Pirates [2]
GEHRHSD	Absegami High School Cedar Creek High School Oakcrest High School
Website	www.gehrhsd.net/o/cchs

Cedar Creek High School is a public high school in Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District and opened in September 2010. The school's colors are forest green, maroon and cream. The school mascot is the pirate. ^[3]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 929 students and 78.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1. There were 278 students (29.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 93 (10.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. ^[1]

Cedar Creek High School is located in the northern section of Egg Harbor City, and educates students from Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township, Port Republic and Washington Township (in Burlington County). Students from Galloway Township and Hamilton Township are zoned to other schools but are eligible to attend Cedar Creek through the district's school of choice program. ^{[4] [5]}

History

In a referendum held on September 25, 2007, by a 65-35% margin, voters approved a plan to construct a third high school in the district, to be located in Egg Harbor City and constructed at a cost of $81.7 million (equivalent to $115.3 million in 2022); the new facility was intended to alleviate overcrowding at Absegami High School and Oakcrest High School. ^[6] The facility was designed to accommodate an enrollment of 1,000 students and had two-thirds of the total cost covered by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority; Construction began in Fall 2008 and the school opened to students in September 2010 with 415 freshmen and sophomores. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

For the 2010–2011 school year, students in grades 9 and 10 attended Cedar Creek and students in grades 11-12 attended either Absegami High School in Galloway Township or Oakcrest High School in Hamilton Township. For school years 2011–12, students in grades 9-11 attended Cedar Creek High, while 12th grade students attended either Absegami High or Oakcrest High. In 2012–2013, Cedar Creek housed grades 9-12 and graduated it first senior class.

Athletics

The Cedar Creek High School Pirates ^[2] compete in the Cape-Atlantic League, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Gloucester counties, and operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. ^[10] With 703 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022–24 school years as Group II South for most athletic competition purposes. ^[11] The football team competes in the Independence Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconference ^{[12] [13]} and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III South for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 680 to 889 students. ^[14]

The girls' basketball team won the Group I state championship in 2012 with a 50–38 win over Whippany Park High School, earning the first state championship in any sport for Cedar Creek. ^{[15] [16]}

The football team won the South Jersey Group II state sectional championship in 2015 and the Central Jersey Group II title in 2019. ^[17] In December 2015, the football team won the program's first state sectional title when they won the South Jersey Group II state sectional championship with a 28–27 win against West Deptford High School, defeating the team that beat them 42–28 in 2012 when they faced each other at Cedar Creek's first championship game. ^[18] The team won the 2019 Central Jersey Group II sectional title in 2019 with a 31–23 win against Camden High School. ^[19]

Administration

The school's principal is Scott Parker. His administration team includes two assistant principals. ^[20]

Notable alumni

• Bo Melton (born 1999), American football wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. ^[21]
• Max Melton, American football cornerback for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights ^[22]

References

1. School data for Cedar Creek High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
2. Cedar Creek High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
3. About, Cedar Creek High School. Accessed December 20, 2022. "School colors are maroon, forest green, and cream which were selected to represent our location in the Pine Barrens. Our mascot is the Pirate, who was named Argh Jay after a school-wide survey in 2011."
4. Lowe, Claire. The two classes for this program offered are Engineering, and Environmental Science. "Superintendent cites capacity in declining Brigantine request" Archived August 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine , Shore News Today, July 6, 2011. Accessed August 1, 2017. "Over the last year, Brigantine has conducted a feasibility study and spoken with Greater Egg Harbor Regional administration about the possibility of sending its high school students to the newly constructed Cedar Creek High School in Egg Harbor City. The new school opened in September to ninth- and 10th-grade students from Egg Harbor, Mullica Township, Port Republic, and Green Bank."
5. Harper, Derek. "Cedar Creek honors first class of grads", The Press of Atlantic City , June 15, 2013. Accessed September 30, 2014. "The school draws from a number of small towns, including Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township and Port Republic in Atlantic County and Washington Township in Burlington County. Some Hamilton and Galloway Township students also attend through the school choice program."
6. Previti, Emily. "Greater Egg Harbor Regional trying to collect 12% more in taxes", The Press of Atlantic City , March 30, 2010, updated June 19, 2019. Accessed March 8, 2022. "In 2007, voters passed a referendum that raised another $27 million in extra taxes to cover the $81.7 million it cost to plan, design and build Cedar Creek High School, which will open in the fall."
7. Referendum, Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District. Accessed May 4, 2008.
8. Staff. "Students get a sneak peek at Egg Harbor City's new Cedar Creek High School", The Press of Atlantic City , August 25, 2010, updated July 20, 2019. Accessed March 8, 2022. "Freshmen and sophomores, at right, who will attend the new Cedar Creek High School in Egg Harbor City got a look at their new school, above, during student orientation Tuesday. The school is part of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District and will serve all students from Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township, Port Republic and Green Bank in Washington Township, Burlington County, as well as some students from Hamilton Township and Galloway Township."
9. Lee, Michelle. "Work on Cedar Creek High School in Egg Harbor City is 92 percent complete", The Press of Atlantic City , June 2, 2010. Accessed March 30, 2022. "The new high school is being built to alleviate overcrowding at Oakcrest and Absegami high schools, said Steven Ciccariello, the interim superintendent of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District. The $81.7 million project was approved by district voters in 2007, and about two-thirds of the work is funded by the New Jersey School Development Authority.... The school's entering classes will comprise 415 ninth- and 10th-graders from Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township, Port Republic and the Green Bank section of Washington Township, Burlington County. New students will be added each year. The building's capacity is about 1,000 students."
10. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
11. NJSIAA General Classifications - Public Schools 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2022.
12. Cedar Creek Pirates, West Jersey Football League. Accessed March 6, 2021.
13. Home Page, West Jersey Football League. Accessed May 1, 2023. "The WJFL is a 94-school super conference that stretches from Princeton to Wildwood encompassing schools from the Colonial Valley Conference, the Burlington County Scholastic League, the Olympic Conference, the Tri-County Conference, the Colonial Conference, and the Cape Atlantic League. The WJFL is made up of sixteen divisions with divisional alignments based on school size, geography and a strength-of-program component."
14. NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2022–2024, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2023.
15. Lamberti, Mike. "Whippany Park (50) at Cedar Creek (38), NJSIAA Group Tournament, Final Round, Group 1 - Girls Basketball", NJ.com, March 11, 2012. Accessed September 8, 2013. "That run quickly set the tone and Cedar Creek never looked back en route to a 50-38 victory over Whippany Park in the NJSIAA/ShopRite Group 1 championship game before 2,000 at Pine Belt Arena in Toms River."
16. NJSIAA Girls Basketball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
17. NJSIAA Football History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2022.
18. O'Kane, John. "Cedar Creek comes back to win first South Jersey football title", The Press of Atlantic City , December 6, 2015. Accessed December 11, 2015. "Plenty of people wondered whether the Cedar Creek High School football team would have an answer for West Deptford's power running game in Sunday's South Jersey Group II final at Rowan University.... The Pirates stormed back in the second half en route to a dramatic 28-27 win against West Deptford for the first sectional football title in school history.... Sunday was Cedar Creek's second trip to the sectional final. West Deptford beat the Pirates 42-28 in 2012."
19. Friedman, Josh. "South Jersey football: Cedar Creek beats Camden for first time, wins second sectional title", Courier-Post , November 30, 2019. Accessed September 27, 2020. "The second-seeded Pirates captured the program’s second sectional championship, downing the fourth-seeded Panthers 31-23 in the Central 2 final."
20. Administration, Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District. Accessed May 9, 2023.
21. Gill, Mike. "Former Cedar Creek Football Star Bo Melton Shines at NFL Combine", WENJ, March 3, 2022. Accessed April 9, 2022. "Former Cedar Creek star Bo Melton made a name for himself on Thursday at the NFL Combine, running a 4.34 time in the 40-yard dash."
22. Anastasia, Phil. "Cedar Creek football star Malachi Melton commits to Purdue", The Philadelphia Inquirer , July 17, 2019. Accessed May 9, 2023. "The third brother, Malachi 'Max' Melton, a senior at Cedar Creek High School, announced Tuesday that he will follow his own path, committing to head west to attend Purdue on a football scholarship.... 'Where I’m from, Mays Landing, New Jersey, everybody is chasing the same thing,' Melton said."

External links

• New Jersey portal
• Schools portal

• Cedar Creek High School website
• Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District
• School Performance Report for Cedar Creek High School , New Jersey Department of Education
• data for the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District, National Center for Education Statistics