| Definition of Terms |
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| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades 9 - 12 |
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| County |
Morris County, NJ |
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| Total Students |
1458 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
51% /
49% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
125 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Grade 9 - 368 students | | Grade 10 - 385 students | | Grade 11 - 345 students | | Grade 12 - 343 students | | Grade Not Listed - 17 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:12 |
1:13 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
n/a |
n/a |
| % Asian |
6% |
7% |
| % Hispanic |
19% |
15% |
| % Black |
17% |
17% |
| % White |
58% |
61% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
12% |
16% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
4% |
4% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
n/a |
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| School District Name |
Morris School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
10 |
5 |
| Number of Students Managed |
4,631 students |
2,429 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$92,133,000 |
$39,780,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$89,924,000 |
$39,973,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$19,895 |
$16,377 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$19,418 |
$16,457 |
| District Graduation Rates |
96% |
81% |
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- Morristown High School (or MHS) is a four-year public high school serving students in grades 9 - 12 from three communities in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Morris School District. The school serves students from Morristown and Morris Township, along with students from Morris Plains, who attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.
- Students feed into the high school from grades K-8 within the Morris School District from both Morristown, Morris Township, and various private schools. Students from Morris Plains in grades K-8 attend the Morris Plains Schools.
- As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,477 students and 117 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.6.
- Awards and recognition
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The school was the 75th best 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 65th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
- Athletics
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The Morristown High School Colonials participate in the Iron Hills Conference, an athletic conference made up of high schools located in Essex County, Morris County and Union County in New Jersey.
- The Morristown baseball team won the Group III state championship in 2006 with wins over Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan and Ocean Township High School by 3-1 and 11-7 respectively. They finished the season ranked third out of more than 300 high schools in the state by the Star Ledger's Top 20.
- The football team won the Section II Group III title in 1997, 1998, and 1999. These wins were the school's first ever "3-peat" consecutive wins. The team had earlier won state titles in 1974 and 1993, and 1997.
- History
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Morristown High School was opened on December 13, 1869 on Maple Avenue, four years after Morristown had seceded from Morris Township. It accepted students from both the town and the township. The first graduates were the class of 1874, consisting of eight students, five girls and three boys.
- Morristown High School played its first football game on September 28, 1901 against Port Oram.
- The cornerstone of the current MHS building was laid on September 9, 1916. Classes at the current building began on September 4, 1918.
- M.H.S. currently receives students from Frelinghuysen Middle School, Morris Plains Borough School, and various private schools, such as Saint Virgil's.
- In 2005, Linda D. Murphy, an assistant principal at Morristown High School, was promoted to principal of Morristown High School, becoming the first Morristown High School graduate to fill the position.
- In 2009, semester-based block scheduling was replaced with a year-round rotating block schedule.
- Notables
- Notable alumni
- James J. Barry Jr 1964, Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and member of the New Jersey General Assembly
- Jeffrey Fluhr, 1992; co-founder of StubHub.
- Craig Newmark 1971, creator of the web community craigslist.
- Gene Shalit , 1950 book and movie critic.
- Rick Sofield 1974?, former Major League Baseball first-round draft pick & outfielder for the Minnesota Twins 1979-1981
- Ben Weinman 1994, guitarist for The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Notable faculty
- Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918), poet and author, taught at Morristown High School 1908-1909.
- Charlie Weis (born 1956), current head football coach at University of Notre Dame, was an assistant football coach and English teacher from 1980-1985.
[Thamel, Pete. "Weis Made His Luck on Way to the Irish", The New York Times, December 19, 2004. Accessed September 16, 2008. "After graduating in 1978, Weis decided to become a coach and teacher. He returned to New Jersey and taught at Boonton High School, then at nearby Morristown High, where he found his first football mentor, Morristown Coach John Chironna."]
- External links
- Morristown High School
- Morris School District
- Marching Colonials
- Data for the Morris School District, National Center for Education Statistics
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| About This Zip Code (07960) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
43,409 people |
8,215,963 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
58% |
35% |
| Population Average Age |
39 years old
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36 years old |
| Average Household size |
2.5 persons
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2.6 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$81,621
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$55,509 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
6.4 rooms |
5.6 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
46 years old |
47 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
65% / 35% |
62% / 38% |
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