Keansburg High School

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Keansburg High School
Address
Keansburg High School
140 Port Monmouth Road

Keansburg
,
Monmouth County
,
New Jersey
07734

United States
Coordinates 40°26′31″N74°07′25″W / 40.441826°N 74.123579°W / 40.441826; -74.123579
Information
Type Public high school
Established1968
School district Keansburg School District
NCES School ID340786003880 [1]
PrincipalMichael John Herits [2]
Faculty31.4 FTEs [1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment385 (as of 2023–24) [1]
Student to teacher ratio12.3:1 [1]
Color(s)  Royal blue and
  orange [3]
Athletics conference Shore Conference [4]
Team nameTitans [3]
Accreditation Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (candidate) [5]
Website www.keansburg.k12.nj.us/keansburghs

Keansburg High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Keansburg, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Keansburg School District. The school is a candidate for accreditation by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. [5]

Contents

As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 385 students and 31.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1. There were 158 students (41.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 2 (0.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

KHS is located at 140 Port Monmouth Road. However, the school itself cannot be seen from Port Monmouth Road. The school is accessed via Titan Trail (the entrance road) into the parking lot. It is adjacent to Port Monmouth Road Elementary School (which should not be confused with Port Monmouth Elementary School in Port Monmouth), which was built well after the high school. One part of Port Monmouth Road Elementary School, once referred to as the "C-Wing," is slated to be returned for use for the high school following reconstruction. The reconstruction plans also plan to change the existing structure of the school district.

History

Prior to the opening of the high school, students from Keansburg had attended Middletown High School, with the Middletown district seeing a drop of more than 400 Keansburg students based on the high school's opening. [6] The building was constructed at a cost of $2 million (equivalent to $17.5 million in 2023) opened in September 1968. [7] After the new school opened, the Middletown Township Public School District agreed that those Keansburg students who had previously been attending Middletown High School would be allowed to complete their education there on a tuition basis. [8]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 281st-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. [9] The school had been ranked 181st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 184th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [10] The magazine ranked the school 147th in 2008 out of 316 schools. [11] The school was ranked 263rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [12] Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 306th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 26 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). [13]

Athletics

The Keansburg High School Titans [3] compete in Division B Central of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore. [4] [14] The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). [15] With 282 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range. [16] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 185 to 482 students. [17]

The school participates in joint field hockey and football teams with Keyport High School as the host school / lead agency. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. [18]

The football team was awarded the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I state championship in 1973 based on power points, [19] and won the sectional playoffs in 1976, 1994 and 1996. [20] The 1976 team finished the season with a 9–2 record and won the Central Jersey Group I sectional title, its first in the playoff era, with a 14–0 win against Highland Park High School in the championship game. [21] The 1994 team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional title with a 10–0 victory against South Hunterdon Regional High School in the championship game. [22] In 2016, Keansburg alumni beat Keyport alumni 32–6 in the first annual alumni football game between these two schools. [23]

The boys cross country team won the Group I state championship in 2005. [24]

The boys' bowling team won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I state sectional championships and the Group I state championships in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the team won the Tournament of Champions in 2011. [25] [26]

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are: [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Administration, Keansburg High School. Accessed April 7, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 Keansburg High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
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  6. ↑ "By Middletown School System; Enrollment Level Held", The Daily Register, September 10, 1968. Accessed April 7, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Despite the loss of 424 students to the new Keansburg High School, enrollment in the Middletown school system reached 12,848, with another 50 to 100 expected."
  7. ↑ "Keansburg High School To Open", The Keyport Weekly, August 22, 1968. Accessed April 7, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The new Keansburg High School, erected on 40-acre tract on Port Monmouth Rd., will open on Thursday, Sept. 5. The red brick building, built at a cost of $2,000,000, houses 30 classrooms, a library, and an auditorium-gymnasium, which has a seating capacity of 1000. The building will house classes from the seventh grade through senior year in high school."
  8. ↑ "12 Teacher Posts Unfilled In Middletown", Asbury Park Press , August 13, 1968. Accessed April 7, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The Board announced that Keansburg students in the local high school will be permitted to complete their education here rather than transfer to the Keansburg High School scheduled to open this year. Mr. Lefever said the parents will be furnished with tuition figures upon request."
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  12. ↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly , September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  13. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed January 5, 2012.
  14. ↑ Member Schools, Shore Conference. Accessed November 15, 2020.
  15. ↑ League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  16. ↑ NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  17. ↑ NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2024–2026, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024.
  18. ↑ NJSIAA Fall Cooperative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2020.
  19. ↑ Badders, Bob. "The Shore Conference Has Lost a Coaching Legend", Shore Sports Network, September 17, 2020. "Keansburg was awarded the Central Jersey Group 1 title in 1973 by the NJSIAA, one year before the creation of the current playoff system."
  20. ↑ NJSIAA Football History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 1, 2022.
  21. ↑ "Schoolboy Halfback Breaks New Jersey Scoring Record", The New York Times , December 5, 1976. Accessed December 26, 2020. "Keansburg scored two second-half touchdowns for a 14-0 victory over Highland Park and the Central Jersey Group 1 crown before 3,500 in Highland Park. Keansburg (9-2) marched 58 yards in 14 plays and Joe Mahr hit Ron Hayes with a 7-yard strike for the first score."
  22. ↑ McLaughlin, Bill. "Keansburg dominates with defense, line play", Asbury Park Press , December 4, 1994. Accessed January 13, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "The countdown to Keansburg's first sectional football championship in 18 years was ticking down to single digits as the seniors came off the field, huge young men who hugged and cried and lost their emotions. 'It feels wonder' said senior lineman Jeramie Hutchins said moments after his team's 10-0 victory in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association's Central Jersey Group I championship game at South Hunterdon, a team the Titans defeated 7-6 earlier this season."
  23. ↑ Carino, Jerry. "On gridiron, Keyport and Keansburg turn back the clock", Asbury Park Press , June 20, 2016. Accessed August 28, 2017. "'These men will be holding their sons and daughters tomorrow on Father's Day,' Collins announced as the players shook hands after Keansburg's 32-6 victory."
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