Lakewood High School (New Jersey)

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Lakewood High School
Address
Lakewood High School (New Jersey)
855 Somerset Avenue

Lakewood Township
,
Ocean County
,
New Jersey
08701

United States
Coordinates 40°06′02″N74°11′43″W / 40.100563°N 74.1953317°W / 40.100563; -74.1953317
Information
Type Public
School district Lakewood School District
NCES School ID340822004636 [1]
PrincipalRichard Goldstein
Faculty87.5 FTEs [1]
Grades 9 - 12
Enrollment1,458 (as of 2021–22) [1]
Student to teacher ratio16.7:1 [1]
Color(s)  Blue
  White [2]
Athletics conference Shore Conference [3]
Team namePiners [2]
NewspaperPine Needle [4]
YearbookPine Needle [4]
Website www.lakewoodpiners.org/lhs

Lakewood High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Lakewood Township, Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Lakewood School District.

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As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,458 students and 87.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.7:1. There were 1,106 students (75.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 47 (3.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

History

Students from Manchester Township had attended Lakewood High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship, though by June 1964 overcrowding led the Lakewood School District to try to end the agreement under which 150 students from Manchester Township attended the Lakewood school. [5] The students left in September 1976 when Manchester Township High School opened. [6]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 324th-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. [7] The school had also been ranked 324th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 316th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [8] The magazine ranked the school in 2008 out of 316 schools. [9] The school was ranked 288th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [10]

Athletics

The Lakewood High School Piners [2] compete in Division B South of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore. [3] [11] The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). [12] With 916 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range. [13] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV South for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 893 to 1,296 students. [14] The school competes in the C-Central Division of the Shore Conference, in football, tennis, bowling, cheerleading, softball, baseball, wrestling, basketball, volleyball, track, cross country, and field hockey, with the most success over previous years coming in boys' basketball, boys soccer, and girls' and boys' track.

The boys' basketball team won the Group III state championships in 1967 (defeating West New York Memorial High School in the tournament final) and in 1975 (vs. East Orange High School). [15] The team won the Group III title in 1967 with a 74–51 win against Weehawken in the championship game played at Atlantic City Convention Hall, becoming the first Ocean County program to win a state title. [16] The 1975 team finished the season with a record of 28–1 after winning the Group III title in front of 4,000 spectators at Brookdale Community College with a 71–70 championship game victory on two last-second free throws against an East Orange team that came into the game unbeaten in 39 games and having won group titles in each of the three previous seasons. [17] The team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional title in 2010, defeating Neptune High School in the sectional final by a score of 59–51. [18]

The baseball team won the North I Group III state title in 1967, won the Group III championships in 1973 (vs. Ridgefield Park High School) and 1980 (vs. Newark East Side High School), and won the Group IV title in 1984 (vs. West New York Memorial High School). [19]

The girls spring track team was the Group III state champion in 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988 and 1989. [20]

The boys track team won the Group III indoor track championship in 1985 and 1999. The girls team won the Group III title in 1988. [21]

The 1986 football team football team finished the season with an 8–3 record after winning the South Jersey Group III state sectional title by defeating Bridgeton High School by a score of 7–6 in the championship game. [22] [23]

In 1986, the boys' soccer team finished the season with a record of 15-6-1 after a 1–1 tie with Randolph High School made the team the Group III co-champion. [24] [25]

The boys track team won the Group III spring track state championship in 1987. [26]

The boys' track team won the Group III state indoor relay championship in 1988. [27]

The girls bowling team won the overall state championship in 1995. [28]

Administration

The school's principal is Richard Goldstein. His core administration team includes four assistant principals. [29]

Notable alumni

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  2. 1 2 3 Lakewood High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Shore Conference Realignment for 2018-2019 and 2019-2020, Shore Conference. Accessed November 15, 2020.
  4. 1 2 Student Handbook and Code of Conduct 2020-2021, Lakewood High School. Accessed April 12, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Driver Class Stays as Is In Lakewood", Asbury Park Press , June 9, 1964. Accessed June 10, 2021. "The board voted to again notify Dr. Frederick M. Raubinger, state commissioner of education, it would like to have Manchester Township's 150 high school students withdrawn from the high school after 1964-65 because of overcrowding. James Dickerson, secretary, said the Board is in the process of signing an emergency one-year contract with the Manchester Board."
  6. ↑ "Manchester Schools Expected To Spur Many New Residents", Asbury Park Press , September 13, 1976. Accessed June 10, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "The school system here will attract many new residents during the next two or three years, William F. White, Ocean County superintendent of schools, predicted yesterday. White spoke before about 500 persons at the dedication of the new, $6.3 million Manchester Township High School, which opened its doors Wednesday to 781 students from here and Lakehurst."
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  31. ↑ Matthew Boxer Archived October 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine , New Jersey State Comptroller. Accessed September 18, 2012. "A New Jersey resident for more than three decades, Boxer graduated as the class valedictorian from Lakewood High School in 1988, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1992 with a B.A. in politics and earned a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1995."
  32. ↑ Rosman, Mark. "Assemblyman recalled for service to people in need", Tri-Town News, October 17, 2002. Accessed May 12, 2017. "Cottrell was a lifelong resident of Jackson, a graduate of the town's public schools and a graduate of Lakewood High School."
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  36. ↑ "Success is habit forming to Goldstein", Asbury Park Press , October 22, 1980. Accessed February 11, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Success is getting to be a habit with William Goldstein, a film composer and arranger who grew up in Lakewood.... Goldstein was graduated from Lakewood High School, Trenton State College, the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard School of Music."
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