Spotswood High School (New Jersey)

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Spotswood High School
Address
Spotswood High School (New Jersey)
105 Summerhill Road

Spotswood
,
Middlesex County
,
New Jersey
08884

United States
Coordinates 40°23′57″N74°23′12″W / 40.399138°N 74.386642°W / 40.399138; -74.386642
Information
Type Public high school
School district Spotswood Public Schools
NCES School ID341554003660 [1]
PrincipalAmy Jablonski
Faculty57.0 FTEs [1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment773 (as of 2023–24) [1]
Student to teacher ratio13.6:1 [1]
Color(s)  Royal blue
  gold [2]
Athletics conference Greater Middlesex Conference (general)
Big Central Football Conference (football)
Team nameChargers [2]
Rival South River Rams
NewspaperThe Scribbler
Website shs.spsd.us

Spotswood High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade in Spotswood, in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Spotswood Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 2023; the school's accreditation expires in January 2031. [3]

Contents

As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 773 students and 57.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.6:1. There were 95 students (12.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 27 (3.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

Students from Helmetta, a non-operating district, attend school in Spotswood beginning in grammar school; students from Milltown attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Milltown Public Schools. [4] [5] [6] As of 2021, Spotswood High School has had a postsecondary education rate of 33% for a four-year school, 33% for a two-year school, 7% for a business or technical school, and 27% into the workforce/other. Spotswood High School offers 14 Advanced Placement courses and 28 honors courses. Spotswood High School also offers the Seal of Biliteracy, certifying students in their proficiency in English and another language. [7]

Awards, recognition and rankings

During the 1992-93 school year, Spotswood High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, [8] the highest award an American school can receive. [9] [10]

The school was the 159th-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. [11] The school had been ranked 102nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 105th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. [12] The magazine ranked the school 126th in 2008 out of 316 schools. [13] The school was ranked 183rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [14]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school 80th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 17 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.8%) and language arts literacy (95.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA). [15]

Athletics

The Spotswood High School Chargers [2] compete in the Blue Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in the Middlesex County area and operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. [16] With 509 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. [17] The football team competes in Division 2B of the Big Central Football Conference, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location. [18] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 514 to 685 students. [19]

The school participates together with South River High School in a joint ice hockey team in which East Brunswick High School is the host school / lead agency. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. [20]

Cross country

Track and field

Baseball

Basketball

Administration

The principal is Amy Jablonski. Her administration team includes the assistant principal. [7]

Notable alumni

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 School data for Spotswood High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Spotswood High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Spotswood High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 22, 2024.
  4. ↑ Milltown Fact Sheet 2015-2016, Milltown Public Schools. Accessed July 11, 2016. "Through a formal send–receive contract, approved by the Department of Education, our high school students are sent on a tuition basis to Spotswood High School. Our 2015-2016 operating budget of $15.9 million supports Parkview School and Joyce Kilmer School, as well as the tuition for students attending Spotswood High School."
  5. ↑ Spotswood High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed July 11, 2016. "I want to welcome you to Spotswood High School, a comprehensive institution that focuses on excellence in academics, the arts, athletics, and community service. Spotswood High School has served the residents in Spotswood, Helmetta, and Milltown since 1976."
  6. ↑ Principal's Corner, Spotswood High School. Accessed July 11, 2016. "I want to welcome you to Spotswood High School, a comprehensive institution that focuses on excellence in academics, the arts, athletics, and community service. Spotswood High School has served the residents in Spotswood, Helmetta, and Milltown since 1976."
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  21. ↑ Buganski, Patrick. "Metuchen hits stride, snaps Spotswood's streak", Home News Tribune , September 30, 2006. Accessed September 7, 2012. "The latest step toward revitalizing a once-great program was a dual meet win over defending NJSIAA Group II champion Spotswood. With a 26-29 win, Metuchen snapped the Chargers' 36-meet winning streak, as the Bulldogs improved to 3-0."
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  30. ↑ Bigelow, Pete. "Herren returns to coaching at Roselle Catholic", Home News Tribune , December 17, 1999. Accessed December 21, 2012. "Charger Tribute: Spotswood will unveil its sectional championship banner tonight when the Chargers host Middlesex at 7 pm. The Chargers won the Central Jersey Group I championship last year, defeating Montgomery 58[ sic ]-50 for the title."
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