Cherokee High School - Marlton, New Jersey/NJ

Home > New Jersey > Burlington County > Cherokee High School

Cherokee High School

120 Tomlinson Mill Road, Marlton, NJ, 08053 -

Map

tel: (856)983-5140

Visit School Website

View current housing listings in this area

Review school:

Find your graduating class!

Definition of Terms

Cherokee High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Burlington County, NJ

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2519 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

191 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 657 students

Grade 10 - 617 students

Grade 11 - 647 students

Grade 12 - 571 students

Grade Not Listed - 27 students

This School

(NJ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:13

1:13

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(NJ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	5%	7%
% Hispanic	2%	15%
% Black	4%	17%
% White	89%	61%

Additional Student Information

This School

(NJ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

16%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(NJ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

View Education Department Test Scores

School District Name

Lenape Regional School District

This School's Agency

(NJ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	4	5
Number of Students Managed	7,364 students	2,429 students
District Total Revenue	$152,756,000	$39,780,000
District Expenditure	$117,279,000	$39,973,000
District Revenue / Student	$20,744	$16,377
District Expenditure / Student	$15,926	$16,457
District Graduation Rates	98%	81%

Man admits driving drunk in fatal crash (Burlington County Times)
posted on November 13, 2009 at 06:58:24 am
MOUNT HOLLY - A Tabernacle man pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide Thursday, admitting he was driving drunk when he hit another car on Route 70 in Evesham and killed the 19-year-old driver.
Fall sports back in action at Allentown High School (Examiner)
posted on September 17, 2009 at 03:30:57 am
When the heavy rains tapered off Sept. 12, the Allentown High School Redbirds took the opportunity to shine. The boys soccer team won its opening game, defeating Pinelands Regional High School, Tuckerton, 1-0. Goalkeeper Connor Darrell had 12 saves and Allessandro Massone kicked the game-winning goal.
Turf field ready for fall season (Burlington County Times)
posted on September 14, 2009 at 08:28:53 am
EVESHAM - The new artificial turf field at Cherokee High School has arrived just in time for the fall sports season, as promised.
What's new in local public school districts (Courier-Post)
posted on September 9, 2009 at 07:47:55 am
Evesham:
Turf field makes debut at Cherokee High School (Courier-Post)
posted on September 8, 2009 at 12:22:39 pm
Thousands of young athletes in Evesham can display their skills on Cherokee High School's new synthetic turf field -- a field that had been controversial at times during planning.

View all past news stories

Cherokee High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of four high schools of the Lenape Regional High School District in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The communities in the district are Evesham Township, Medford Lakes, Medford Township, Mount Laurel Township, Shamong Township, Southampton Township, Tabernacle Township and Woodland Township. Cherokee serves students from Evesham Township.
Most of Cherokee's students come from either Frances S. DeMasi Middle School or Marlton Middle School, which are parts of the Evesham Township School District, located in Evesham Township, New Jersey (commonly referred to as Marlton), a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Some students also come from the local Catholic school, St. Joan of Arc.
The school was known as simply Cherokee High School until the addition of the "south" building in 2001. The original building was then renamed "Cherokee High School North."
As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,619 students and 192 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis, for a student-teacher ratio of 13.6.
The school was featured in the MTV show High School Stories telling about a senior prank of hosting a cookoff in the faculty parking lot on the last day of school. The prank caused the school to close early for the day. The 2004 senior class set this prank up and started to block the parking lot at 2am that day.
The school was the 152nd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 131st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Athletics
The Cherokee High School Chiefs participate in the Olympic Conference, which consists of public and private high schools located in Burlington County and Camden County.
Football Championships
State Championships: 1981, 1982, 1985, 1990, 1993, 2005
Conference Championships: 1973, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008
Undefeated Seasons: 1981, 1982, 1985

Softball Championships

State Championships: 1980, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2003
Conference Championships: 2002, 2003, 2004
Undefeated Seasons: 2003

Ice Hockey

Championships: 2002, 2005
Note: Ice hockey is not a school sport in the Lenape School District. Cherokee's ice hockey team is a separate club team in the SJHSIHL.

Track, Field, and Cross Country

Cross Country Championships: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 (ranked 3rd in NE, 8th in nation), 2007

Basketball Championships

South Jersey Group 4 Sectional Champions: 2007, defeating Winslow Township High School 54-43.
Other high schools in the district
The Lenape District's three other high schools are:
Lenape High School - located in Medford Township. Serves students from Mount Laurel Township
Seneca High School - located in Tabernacle Township. Serves students from Tabernacle, Shamong Township, Southampton Township and Woodland Township
Shawnee High School - located in Medford Township. Serves students from Medford and Medford Lakes
Notable alumni
Mike Devlin (born 1969), NFL football player/coach now with the New York Jets as the offensive line coach.
Doug Easlick, NFL football player Miami Dolphins, Cincinnati Bengals and San Francisco 49ers Dolphins Sign 12 College Free Agents, dated April 30, 2005
Brian Herzlinger (born 1976), filmmaker , My Date with Drew."WORTH NOTING; This Could Be His Date With Destiny", The New York Times, August 7, 2005. "... A 1994 Cherokee High School graduate..."
Dana Kelly, reality TV star, A Double Shot at Love
Tom Knight, NFL football player Arizona Cardinals, New England Patriots, St. Louis Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Dennis Norman (born 1980), NFL football player San Diego Chargers.
Richard Ruccolo (born 1972), actor, Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place. Richard Ruccolo, South African TV Authority. Accessed October 14, 2007. "Upon finishing school at Cherokee High School, he headed straight for Los Angeles, where he slept on a friends couch until he found work acting."
Michael Schoeffling (born 1960), actor/model, Sixteen Candles (1984).
Nicole Wood (born 1970), Miss April 1993 Playboy Playmate
Declan Eells (Actor)Tv show Its Always Sunny In Phildelphia, movie When Good Ghouls Go Bad who likes men and chocolate
External links
Cherokee High School
Lenape Regional High School District
South Jersey Sports: Cherokee HS
Online Alumni Community

Source: Wikipedia; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
Add/edit information about this school (e.g., awards, news stories, notable alumni, fun facts)