Haddon Heights Junior/Senior High School | |
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Address | |
301 Second Avenue , , 08035 United States | |
Coordinates | 39°53′02″N75°03′04″W / 39.884027°N 75.051153°W |
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Type | Public middle school / high school |
Motto | "Where Tradition and Progress Meet" |
Established | c. 1898 |
NCES School ID | 340633001528 [1] |
Principal | Warren Danenza |
Faculty | 77.4 FTEs [1] |
Grades | 7 - 12 |
Enrollment | 983 (as of 2022–23) [1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 12.7:1 [1] |
Color(s) | Garnet gold [2] |
Athletics conference | Colonial Conference (general) West Jersey Football League (football) |
Team name | Garnets [2] |
Rival | Haddonfield Memorial High School [3] |
Newspaper | The Scribe [4] |
Yearbook | Garneeteer [4] |
Website | highschool |
Haddon Heights Junior/Senior High School, previously known as Haddon Heights High School (HHHS), is a six-year comprehensive public middle school / high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grades from Haddon Heights, in Camden County, in New Jersey, operating as part of the Haddon Heights School District. The school also serves students from the neighboring communities of Barrington, Lawnside and Merchantville (starting in the 2015–16 school year), who attend the high school for grades 9–12 as part of sending/receiving relationships. [5] [6]
The first graduating class in June 1903 included students from Audubon. [7] The high school's current Tudor Gothic-style building, constructed at a cost of $500,000 (equivalent to $8.5 million in 2022) opened in September 1924. [8] [9]
In September 1960, students from Magnolia, Somerdale and Stratford left the high school to start attending the new Sterling High School. [10]
In 1992, the borough of Merchantville, which at the time was sending students to Pennsauken High School in Pennsauken Township as part of a longstanding sending/receiving relationship with the Pennsauken Public Schools, made plans to switch its high school students to Haddon Heights High, but the New Jersey Commissioner of Education did not allow these plans to go forward. In 2012, the board of the Merchantville School District decided to send its students to Haddon Heights High. [11] The Haddon Heights district approved a plan in September 2013; it would add nearly 80 students a year from Merchantville to the high school, in addition to the average of more than 260 students from Barrington and 120 from Lawnside that are sent to Haddon Heights each year. [12] The plan was approved by the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, and students from Merchantville began attending the school in September 2015. [13] Students from Merchantville already in high school before 2015 will continue to attend Pennsauken High until their graduation. [14] [15] Scott Strong, the chief administrator of the Merchantville district, stated that "Haddon Heights offers the right programs, the right diversity and really met our needs." [16]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 983 students and 77.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. There were 128 students (13.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 17 (1.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]
The school was the 207th-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. [17] The school had been ranked 151st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 129th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [18] The magazine ranked the school 168th in 2008 out of 316 schools. [19] The school was ranked 135th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [20] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 159th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 69 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (84.0%) and language arts literacy (91.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). [21]
The Haddon Heights High School Garnets [2] compete in the Colonial Conference, which is comprised of public high schools in Camden and Gloucester counties [22] operating under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). [23] With 657 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. [24] The football team competes in the Constitution Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconference [25] [26] and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II South for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 480 to 674 students. [27]
The school has Boys and Girls Basketball teams, [28] [29] soccer, [30] boys track, [31] field hockey, [32] boys cross country, [33] as well as a softball [34] and baseball team. [35]
The marching band was Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Champions in Group 1 in 1994. [36] They were also the TOB Chapter 1 Champions in Group 1 from 1992 to 1997.
The school's marching band finished in third place at the 2007 United States Scholastic Band Association National Championships, competing as a Group I band at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland on November 16, 2007, with a score of 94.175, missing second place by 1/20th of a point. [37]
At the USSBA Yamaha Cup competition in October 2012, the marching band came in first in the 1 Open group, winning awards for Best Visual and Best Guard. [38]
In November 2013, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, the unit took home their first ever USBands Group 1 Open National Championship, with a score of 90.25.
The following season (2014), the unit went undefeated in the regular season in both the USBands and Tournament of Bands circuits. They proceeded to go a combined 4–1 in their championship performances in both circuits (the only loss being the Atlantic Coast Championships where they finished third). The unit won their second consecutive national championship, scoring a 94.450, over a four-point improvement from the previous season's national championship victory.
During the 2015 campaign, the unit won the Tournament of Bands Group 1 Open New Jersey State Championship at Toms River High School North, on October 24, 2015.
The 2018 season saw the unit take home their first USBands Group 1 Open New Jersey State Championship since the 2014 season, taking down the defending national champion in Burlington City High School, after going 0–2 when seeing them in the regular season.
Following the 2018 season, the unit lost 14 of its 35 total members, leaving the unit with only three senior members on the roster entering the 2019 season. Despite this, the unit went on to have by far their most successful season since the 2014 season, highlighted by taking home their second consecutive USBands Group 1 Open New Jersey State Championship, again defeating the defending national champion (again being Burlington). The championships were held at Wayne Valley High School on November 3, 2019.
On November 12, 2022, the marching unit won their first ever Cavalcade of Bands Independence Open Championship with a score of 96.10. This victory earned Rob Renninger, the unit's longtime and heavily respected director, his fourth major championship win of his storied fifty-one year career (‘94, ‘13, ‘14).
The school's indoor color guard, known as High Voltage (or HV for short), was the Scholastic Open Class champions at the Tournament Indoor Association (TIA) All-Chapter Championships in 1994 and 1996.
High Voltage was WGI (Winter Guard International) finalists in the years 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2006. They finished as high as 6th place in both 2005 and 2006.
They were the Scholastic World Class Champions from 1998 to 2001, the Independent Open Class Champions in 2005 and 2006, and the Independent A Class Champions in 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Their run from 1998 to 2009, in which they won an All-Chapter championship in 11 out of 12 seasons, is widely regarded as the best championship run in TIA history.
They were the Independent A Class Champions in the MAIN circuit in 2004, 2005, and 2009.
High Voltage was also 2014 USBands Indoor Color Guard Scholastic 3A champions.
The school's indoor percussion ensemble was the Tournament Indoor Association Scholastic A Champions in 2006.
The school's indoor percussion ensemble also attended the 2007 and 2008 WGI (Winter Guard International) World Championships in Dayton, Ohio.
In 2008, the percussion ensemble was the 2008 Tournament Indoor Association Scholastic Open All Chapter Champions performing their award-winning show entitled, Illusions.
In 2011, at the Tournament Indoor Association Atlantic Coast Championships, the percussion ensemble won the Scholastic Intermediate A Prelims round with a score of 92.500, yet in just after two days in their finals performance, they jumped to a 97.975, becoming the 2011 Scholastic Intermediate A Atlantic Coast Champions.
In 2014, the percussion ensemble won the Scholastic Novice Atlantic Coast Championship, earning their fourth title in nine seasons.
The school's principal is Warren Danenza. His core administration team includes two assistant principals and the athletic director. [39]
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