Ocean Township High School | |
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550 West Park Avenue , , 07755 United States | |
Coordinates | 40°16′06″N74°01′49″W / 40.268294°N 74.030285°W |
Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1965 |
School district | Ocean Township School District |
NCES School ID | 341206004058 [1] |
Principal | Dawn Kaszuba |
Faculty | 103.0 FTEs [1] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 1,021 (as of 2022–23) [1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 9.9:1 [1] |
Color(s) | Red white and royal blue [2] |
Athletics conference | Shore Conference [3] |
Team name | Spartans [2] |
Newspaper | Spartan Spirit [4] |
Yearbook | Sandpiper [4] |
Website | www |
Ocean Township High School (OTHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school in the Ocean Township School District. OTHS serves residents of all neighborhoods within Ocean Township, including Oakhurst, Wanamassa, Wayside and West Allenhurst. [5]
As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,021 students and 103.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.9:1. There were 200 students (19.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 46 (4.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]
As of the 2013–14 school year there were 18 Advanced Placement (AP) courses offered. [6] In conjunction with Monmouth University, Ocean Township High School offers a dual credit program called MODEL to AP students. The school's average graduation rate for the past two years is 99% and 97% of students go on to post secondary education.
The school's Family and Consumer Science kitchens, for culinary instruction, were remodeled in 2005. Over 93% of Ocean's teachers are at or above intermediate skill levels in the use of technology.
Ocean Township's students leaving eighth grade had the option to attend either Asbury Park High School or Long Branch High School as part of sending/receiving relationships, with most Ocean Township students choosing to head to Asbury Park. By 1962, Ocean Township students accounted for a majority of the student body at an overcrowded Asbury Park High School. Ocean Township was unwilling to commit to the long-term sending relationship that would allow Asbury Park to justify an expansion project. Voters in Ocean Township approved a 1962 referendum allocating $3 million (equivalent to $30.2 million in 2023) towards the construction of a high school facility. [7] The school opened in September 1965, serving more than 1,300 students in grades 7–11, which included students in grades 10 and 11 who had previously been sent out of the district for high school. [8] Ocean Township shifted 600 students from Asbury Park to the new high school, with about 300 Ocean Township seniors completing their final year at Asbury Park High School. [9]
The school graduated its first class in 1967. Over time, the 7th and 8th grade students were moved to other schools. Beginning in the 1975–76 school year, with the opening of the then 7-9 Ocean Township Intermediate School, the school only served 10–12, with the freshman class returning to OTHS for the 1978–79 school year.
At the end of the 2016–17 school year, Loch Arbour left the Ocean Township district after getting approval from the New Jersey Department of Education and following the overwhelming passage of a referendum. With 14 public school students and school property taxes of $2 million, Loch Arbour had been paying an average of $143,000 per pupil, [10] while Ocean Township taxpayers only paid approximately $16,000 per pupil. [10] The Loch Arbour cost per student was significantly reduced under new sending/receiving relationships established with the West Long Branch Public Schools for PreK-8 and Shore Regional High School for 9–12, under which Loch Arbour pays tuition to each district based on the number of students. [11] Ocean Township opposed the changes as the subsidy funded approximately 20 staff positions. [10]
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post , the school was ranked 55th in New Jersey and 1,637th nationwide. [12] In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Ocean Township High School was listed in 838th place, the 21st-highest ranked school in New Jersey. [13]
In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast ranked the school 856th in the nation among participating public high schools and 64th among schools in New Jersey. [14]
The school was the 84th-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. [15] The school had been ranked 95th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 64th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [16] The magazine ranked the school 97th in 2008 out of 316 schools. [17] The school was ranked 69th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [18] Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 148th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 31 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.8%) and language arts literacy (93.7%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). [19]
The Ocean Township High School Spartans [2] compete in Division B North of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore. [3] [20] The conference operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). [21] With 820 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. [22] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 695 to 882 students. [23]
The school participates as the host school / lead agency in a joint ice hockey team with Monmouth Regional High School and Shore Regional High School. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. [24]
The field hockey team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 1980, 1985, 1997 and 2001. [25]
The 1980 boys' tennis team won the Group III state championship, defeating Moorestown High School 31⁄2-11⁄2 and Millburn High School 4–1. [26] [27]
The 1985 baseball team finished the season with a 24–6 record after defeating Montville Township High School in the championship game by a score of 3–0 to win the Group III state title in a game played at Princeton University. [28] [29] [30]
The girls cross country running team won the Group III state championship in 1992 and 1993. [31]
The football team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional championships in 1993, 2000 and 2005. [32] After losing all four of its previous state finals, the 1993 team finished the season with an 11–0 record after winning the Central Jersey Group III state sectional title in front of more than 6,000 spectators with a 20–12 victory against a Long Branch High School team that came undefeated into the championship game. [33] As the tournament's seventh seed, Ocean Township High School defeated Nottingham High School (Hamilton High School North) by a score of 41–20 in the 2005 Central Jersey Group III sectional final. [34]
The softball team won the Group III state title in 1993, defeating Ramsey High School by a score of 5–3 in the championship game to finish the season with a record of 25–4. [35] [36]
The boys' soccer team won the Group III state championship in 1996 (defeating Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in the tournament final) and 2018 (vs. Millburn High School). [37] The 1996 team finished the season with a 16–6 record after defeating Scotch Plains-Fanwood by a score of 2–0 in the Group III championship game. [38] In 2018, the team won the Shore Conference Tournament with a 1–0 overtime win against Christian Brothers Academy and won the program's second Group III title by a score of 1–0 against Millburn in the championship game to finish the season 21-3-1. [38] [39]
The wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional championship 2004–2008, 2012, 2019 and 2020 [40]
The boys' bowling team won the Group II state championship in 2011. [41]
The school's principal is Dawn Kaszuba. Her core administration team includes two assistant principals. [42]
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