High Point Regional High School

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High Point Regional High School
Address
299 Pidgeon Hill Road
Wantage Township
, Sussex County , New Jersey , 07461
United States
Coordinates 41°11′49″N74°38′52″W / 41.196874°N 74.647871°W / 41.196874; -74.647871
District information
Grades 9-12
SuperintendentScott D. Ripley
Business administratorJames Minkewicz
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment817 (as of 2022–23) [1]
Faculty68.4 FTEs [1]
Student–teacher ratio11.9:1 [1]
Other information
District Factor Group DE
Website www.hpregional.org
Ind.Per pupilDistrict
spending		Rank
(*)		9-12
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$25,67942$18,89135.9%
1Budgetary Cost19,6844615,59226.2%
2Classroom Instruction11,195478,80727.1%
6Support Services2,608332,29413.7%
8Administrative Cost1,968441,59223.6%
10Operations & Maintenance2,502461,95428.0%
13Extracurricular Activities1,1424187330.8%
16Median Teacher Salary83,0244371,726
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending. [2]
*Of 9-12 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=47
High Point Regional High School
Location
High Point Regional High School
Information
TypeRegional public high school
EstablishedSeptember 1966
NCES School ID340714005358 [1]
PrincipalJon Tallamy
Faculty68.4 FTEs [1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment817 (as of 2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio11.9:1 [1]
Color(s)  Scarlet and
  silver [3]
Athletics conference Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)
Team nameWildcats [3]
PublicationCalliope (literary and arts magazine) [4]
YearbookObelisk [4]

High Point Regional High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Wantage Township, in the U.S. state of New Jersey (with a Sussex postal address), [5] which is the sole high school in its school district. [6] [7] [8]

Contents

The district educates students in ninth through twelfth grades from municipalities in Sussex County, specifically the constituent districts of Wantage Township, Sussex Borough, Branchville Borough, Frankford Township, and Lafayette Township, with students from Montague Township attending as part of a sending/receiving relationship. [9] [10] [11] [12] The high school was established in 1963 and is located in Wantage Township. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 817 students and 68.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. There were 112 students (13.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 16 (2.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J. [13]

History

Prior to the establishment of the regional high school, students from Branchville, Frankford Township and Lafayette Township had attended Newton High School as part of sending/receiving relationships, while those from Sussex and Wantage Township had attended Sussex High School. [14] [15] [16]

Created in 1963 as a district, the school opened in September 1966. [17]

Starting in September 2014, high school students from Montague Township School District began attending High Point Regional High School, as part of a sending/receiving relationship under which incoming ninth graders began attending the High Point district while existing students attended Port Jervis High School in Port Jervis, New York until they graduated. [18]

The Montague district began seeking to annul the relationship with High Point Regional and resume sending students to Port Jervis. [19] The Montague district chose to switch back to Port Jervis because Port Jervis offered a lower tuition than High Point; High Point charged $16,368 per student to Montague. All six members of the Montague district voted, in October 2019, to switch back to Port Jervis. The High Point district sought to block this request on the grounds it and its students would be financially impacted. The Montague district stated that the districts signed an agreement in 2018 that would allow Montague to leave at will. [20] By December 2020 , the districts were in a legal dispute. [21] The High Point agreement is scheduled to end in 2024. [22]

The Montague district began seeking to annul the relationship with High Point Regional and resume sending students to Port Jervis. In February 2018 all seven members of the Montague board approved a symbolic resolution to not renew its ties with High Point. Eric Obernauer of the New Jersey Herald stated that the Montague-High Point relationship was "frosty" and "icy". [23] The Montague district chose to switch back to Port Jervis because Port Jervis offered a lower tuition than High Point; High Point charged $16,368 per student to Montague. All six members of the Montague district voted, in October 2019, to switch back to Port Jervis. to switch back to Port Jervis. The High Point district sought to block this request on the grounds it and its students would be financially impacted. The Montague district stated that the districts signed an agreement in 2018 that would allow Montague to leave at will. [20] By December 2020 the districts were in a legal dispute. [21] The High Point agreement is scheduled to end in 2024. [24]

By 2021 the new Montague board sought to dismiss lawsuits against High Point. Obernauer stated "dissatisfaction with how the Montague district is being run and legal fees spent trying to resume the longstanding relationship with Port Jervis, coupled with a growing acceptance of the High Point relationship, appear to have changed public sentiment." [25]

Awards, recognition and rankings

For the 1997–98 school year, High Point Regional High School received the National Blue Ribbon Award from the United States Department of Education, the highest honor that an American school can achieve. [26]

The school was the 142nd-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. [27] The school had been ranked 88th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 125th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [28] The magazine ranked the school 157th in 2008 out of 316 schools. [29] The school was ranked 151st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [30] The school was recently ranked first of 53 schools in the state in the "DE" District Factor Group by The Star-Ledger and second in the DFG by New Jersey Monthly magazine.

Schooldigger.com ranked the school 124th out of 389 public high schools statewide in its 2012 rankings (an increase of 7 positions from the 2011 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (88.6%) and language arts literacy (95.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). [31]

From the New Jersey Department of Education's "Violence, Vandalism, and Substance Abuse in the Schools" report for 2012–2013, Patch released a list of the "9 Most Violent School Districts in New Jersey", with High Point Regional High School ranking number 5, preceded by Camden County Vocational School. [32] These numbers brought much surprise to both students and parents in the district, considering the school's strong efforts to combat bullying with the "Students Against Being Bullied" organization founded by one of High Point's own students.

Curriculum and achievement

The graduating class of 2011 had SAT scores on par with state and national averages, including an average SAT Critical Reading score of 498 (compared to state and national averages of 495 and 501, respectively), an average Math score of 520 (compared to state and national averages of 514 and 516, respectively), and an average Writing score of 500 (compared to state and national averages of 497 and 492, respectively). [33]

In the 2013–14 school year, High Point Regional High School ranked sixth in Sussex County out of nine other public high schools in SAT scores. [34]

High Point Regional High School offers classes including music, theater, media, technology, art, graphic design, web design, computer applications, retail marketing, sales, engineering, and architecture. [35]

Athletics

The High Point Wildcats [3] compete in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference a high school athletic conference comprised of public and private schools in Morris, Sussex and Warren counties, which operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA), the statewide organization for high school sports. [36] [37] Until the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in the Sussex County Interscholastic League, which included public and private high schools located in Sussex County and northern Morris County. [38] With 673 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range. [39] The football team competes in the American White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. [40] [41] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II North for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 478 to 672 students. [42]

The school participates as the host school / lead agency for joint ice hockey, boys lacrosse and boys / girls swimming teams with Wallkill Valley Regional High School. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. [43] [44]

The wrestling team won the North I Group III state sectional championship in 1986–1997, 2001–2003, 2005–2008, 2010 and 2011, and the North II Group II title in 2012-2014 and 2017–2020. The team won the Group III state title in 2008 and 2011, and the Group II title in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2020 [45] The wrestling team won the Group III state wrestling championship in 2008 against Sayreville War Memorial High School, marking the school's second team state championship overall in all sports and its first ever in wrestling. [46] They had won the SCIL League numerous times, including the last year of its existence in 2009. In 2009, the wrestling team was ruled ineligible to participate in the NJSIAA state tournament, as 65% of its matches had been against teams from New Jersey schools, less than the required 70% threshold. [47] High Point captured its first back-to-back Group II championship wins in 2013 and 2014. High Point found themselves down 21-6 after seven bouts in 2013 against Long Branch High School and won the title with a four-bout pinning spree before holding on to win by a 33-30 margin. [48] The 2014 team defeated Hanover Park High School with four consecutive pins to win the Group II title, after trailing 33–10 with four bouts left in the match. [49]

The field hockey team won the North I Group III state sectional title in 1988, 1996, 1997, 2000 and 2002; the team won the Group III state championship in 1988, defeating Red Bank Regional High School in the championship game. [50] The team won the North I Group III sectional title in 2002 with a 4–0 shutout against West Morris Central High School in the tournament final. [51]

The softball team won the Group III state championship in 2012 (defeating runner-up Kingsway Regional High School in the finals) and in Group II in 2014 (vs. Robbinsville High School) [52] In 2012, the softball team defeated Kingsway Regional High School to win the Group III state championship by a score of 1–0 in 11 innings. [53] The 2014 team finished with a record of 28-2 after winning the Group II title with a 2–1 win against Robbinsville in the championship game. [54]

Arts

High Point offers a variety of different classes that are involved in the arts, including but not limited to: Choral, Concert Choir, Concert Band, Piano Lab, and Theatre. Each class offers different levels, depending on how many years the student has been enrolled in that particular class. These classes present their findings of the course through concerts, which are open to the public twice a year, once in the Winter and again in the Spring. This department also offers extra curricular activities such as: Chambers Choir, Fall Dramas, Spring Musicals, and Marching Band. The Marching Band as well as the Chambers Choir has been known to compete in several different competitions.

Student body

In February 2020, there were 891 students, with 84 being from Montague Township. [20]

The report "Montague Township School District High School Route Evaluation" stated that 85 Montague Township students went to High Point Regional. [55]

Transportation

Due to safety concerns with the initial bus route from Montague to High Point High, a new 18.5 miles (29.8 km) bus route was proposed. [56] Montague Township uses two school buses to send students from that township to High Point Regional. [55]

Academic achievement

In the 2011–2012 school year its graduation rate was 95%. [57]

Notable alumni

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are: [62] [63]

Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district. [64] [65] Seats on the board are allocated based on the population of the constituent municipalities, with four seats assigned to Wantage Township, two to Frankford Township, and one each to Branchville, Lafayette Township and Sussex. [66]

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  48. ↑ Condit, Nick. "Wrestling: High Point overcomes early deficit to win Group 2 title", The Star-Ledger , February 17, 2013. "High Point's Jason Gaccione lost the last bout of the NJSIAA Group 2 state championship against Long Branch on Sunday, but still had a bigger smile on his face than anyone else at Pine Belt Arena in Toms River afterward. Gaccione did not get pinned in the final match at 145 pounds and successfully protected his team's six-point lead, which was built on the strength of four late pins that propelled High Point to a 33-30 victory, and its third state title."
  49. ↑ Kratch, James. "Wrestling state championships: High Point uses dramatic comeback against Hanover Park to pin down Group 2 title", The Star-Ledger , February 16, 2014. Accessed August 6, 2014. "High Point got one pin. Then a second, and a third and a fourth. It all added up to a miraculous 34-33 triumph for the Wantage school, No. 13 in The Star-Ledger, over eighth-ranked Hanover Park yesterday in the NJSIAA Group 2 final to repeat as state champions at Pine Belt Arena in Toms River."
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  52. ↑ Softball Championship History 1972–2023, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated July 2023. Accessed April 1, 2024.
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  54. ↑ Peter Stein. "High Point softball team wins state title", New Jersey Herald , June 7, 2014. Accessed December 5, 2020. "On Saturday, the Wildcats won their second state championship in three seasons, prevailing 2-1 in eight innings against Robbinsville in the Group 2 title game at Toms River North High School.... The Wildcats ended their season with a 28-2 record (.933 winning percentage), and claimed all four major championships -- NJAC American Division, Hunterdon Warren Sussex Tournament, North 1, Group 2, and Saturday’s Group 2 crown."
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  58. ↑ Stein, Peter. "High Point grad Nick Boyle drafted by Ravens in fifth round", New Jersey Herald , May 2, 2015. Accessed January 11, 2017. "If Nick Boyle is wearing an ear-to-ear grin today, you can understand why. First and foremost, the 2011 High Point graduate and former University of Delaware tight end is headed to the National Football League, after being drafted in Saturday afternoon's fifth round by the Baltimore Ravens."
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  61. ↑ Kuty, Brendan. "Branchville’s Zabriskie shoots for heavyweight championship", New Jersey Herald , January 24, 2010. Accessed April 15, 2021. "David Zabriskie has been a Division I All-American. Twice, actually. But the Iowa State senior and High Point graduate isn’t satisfied. He wants a heavyweight national championship. 'I feel pretty good about this year,' Zabriskie said. The Branchville native should."
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  63. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Sussex County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 19, 2016.
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  65. ↑ Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the High Point Regional High School District, New Jersey Department of Education, for year ending June 30, 2022. Accessed July 16, 2023. "The District is governed by a nine member Board of Education which was formed in December 1963; members are elected to serve three year terms. The school building opened for students in grades 9-12 in September 1966. High Point Regional High School has completed two building additions in 1975 and 1991."
  66. ↑ High Point Regional Board of Education Bylaw 0141 - Board Member Number and Term, High Point Regional High School. Accessed July 16, 2023. "The Board of Education shall consist of nine members, proportioned as follows: Wantage - four; Frankford - two; Sussex - one; Lafayette - one; Branchville - one. The term of a Board member shall be three years."

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