Dover High School (New Jersey)

Dover High School
Location
Dover High School
Dover High School
Dover High School
100 Grace Street
Dover, NJ 07801
Information
Type Public high school
School district Dover School District
Principal Robert Franks
Vice principal Michael McAuley
Faculty 72.1 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 832[1] (as of 2013-14)
Student to teacher ratio 11.5:1[1]
Color(s)      Black and
     Orange[2]
Athletics conference Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference
Team name Tigers[2]
Website School website

Dover High School is a four-year public high school located in Dover in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades and operating as the lone secondary school of the Dover School District.

The high school serves students from Victory Gardens, which has been consolidated into the Dover School District since 2010.[3][4][5] Students from Mine Hill Township attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[6]

As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 832 students and 72.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1. There were 424 students (51.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 121 (14.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".[7][8]

The school was the 238th-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 223rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 220th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[10] The magazine ranked the school 215th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[11] The school was ranked 229th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[12] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 172nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 89 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.2%) and language arts literacy (88.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[13]

Extracurricular activities

Dover High School offers many extracurricular activities after school. Below is a list of some of the activities available:

Athletics

The Dover High School Tigers[2] compete in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[14] With 599 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014-15 school year as North I, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 481 to 749 students in that grade range.[15] Prior to the 2010 realignment, the school had participated in the Hills division of the Iron Hills Conference, an athletic conference that included high schools located in Essex County, Morris County and Union County.

The football team won the NJSIAA North II Group II state sectional championship in 1984, 1992 and 1996.[16]

The boys wrestling team won the North II Group II state sectional championship in 1988.[17]

In 2002, the boys soccer team won the North II, Group II state sectional championship, defeating Parsippany High School 1-0 in the tournament final.[18]

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:[19]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 School Data for Dover High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 8, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Dover High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ Martin, Liz. "Voters have their say on the budgets", Neighbor News, April 28, 2010. Accessed May 10, 2015. "The school board goes from 11 members to 10 after this election as the temporary Board seat assigned to the Victory Gardens representative Danielle Press expired permanently on April 20. Now that Victory Gardens has merged with the Dover school district, there will no longer be a dedicated Victory Gardens seat on the Board. Any resident from either Dover or Victory Gardens will be eligible to run for any available Board seat."
  4. ↑ "Victory Gardens", Daily Record (Morristown). Accessed May 10, 2015. "Students in grades K-12 attend Dover public schools."
  5. ↑ 13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated, New Jersey Department of Education press release dated July 1, 2009. Accessed May 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ Dover High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 26, 2016. "Dover High School, located 40 miles from New York City, services approximately 900 high school students from the Town of Dover, the Borough of Victory Gardens, and the Township of Mine Hill. "
  7. ↑ Rundquist, Jeanette. "15 N.J. schools named as national 'Blue Ribbon' winners", The Star-Ledger, September 24, 2013. Accessed September 25, 2013. "Five Catholic schools, six county vocational-technical schools and a Yeshiva are among the list of honored schools in New Jersey. Also named as 2013 Blue Ribbon Schools were Dover, Harrison and Wildwood high schools."
  8. ↑ 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private, pp. 15-17. United States Department of Education, National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Accessed September 25, 2013.
  9. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  10. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed August 24, 2012.
  11. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 4, 2011.
  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 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 6, 2012.
  14. ↑ League Memberships – 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 8, 2015.
  15. ↑ 2014-2015 Public Schools Group Classification: ShopRite Cup–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for North I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of July 8, 2014. Accessed November 19, 2014.
  16. ↑ Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 19, 2015.
  17. ↑ History of the NJSIAA Team Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 8, 2015.
  18. ↑ NJSIAA 2002 Group 2 Boys' Soccer, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 25, 2007.
  19. ↑ Administration, Dover High School. Accessed May 26, 2016.

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