| Definition of Terms |
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| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades PK - 5 |
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| County |
Richmond County, NY |
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| Total Students |
1067 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
54% /
46% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
87 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Pre-K - 61 students | | Kind - 149 students | | Grade 1 - 173 students | | Grade 2 - 166 students | | Grade 3 - 152 students | | Grade 4 - 140 students | | Grade 5 - 153 students | | Grade Not Listed - 73 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:12 |
1:14 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
1% |
1% |
| % Asian |
6% |
4% |
| % Hispanic |
47% |
17% |
| % Black |
37% |
19% |
| % White |
10% |
58% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
n/a |
28% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
n/a |
6% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
n/a |
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(NY) Statewide Testing Performance |
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| School District Name |
Penns Grv-carney's Pt Regional School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
n/a |
4 |
| Number of Students Managed |
42,242 students |
2,265 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$16,003,018,000 |
$31,819,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$16,566,015,000 |
$31,869,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$378,841 |
$14,048 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$392,169 |
$14,070 |
| District Graduation Rates |
50% |
97% |
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- Penns Grove High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Carneys Point Township and Penns Grove in Salem County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District. Students from Oldmans Township attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship. The school is located in Carneys Point Township.
- As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 622 students and 59.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.5.
- The school was the 266th-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 220th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
- Penns Grove High school is also home to the regional Academy of Chemical and Technological Engineering program that prepares students for engineering majors that they might seek when entering college. The Academy of Chemical and Technological Engineering operates in partnership with Rowan University, Salem Community College, DuPont and various other contributors.
- Athletics
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Penns Grove High School is one of the member schools in the Tri-County Conference, which is composed of schools whose enrollments vary greatly for grades 9-12. The smallest one, Clayton High School, has 249 students enrolled whereas the largest one, Williamstown, has 1,343 students.
- Penns Grove High School boasts many athletic victories in its recent years and years past, including the Tri-County Diamond Division Championship for Cross Country in 2006 and 2007, the South Jersey Group One Championship for Outdoor Track in 2007 and 2008, and a number of relays won by the Outdoor Track team.
- The football team went 9-3 in 2008 reaching the schools first state championship game before falling to rival Glassboro. The team was also able to win their first home playoff game in school history in the semifinals.
- In 1986, the boys' track team set the New Jersey state record for most consecutive dual meet wins with 117 . That same year, the track team not only went 10-0 in its dual meets but won every relay meet entered, won the Salem County Meet (10th straight), Tri-County Conference Meet (10th straight), South Jersey Sectional Group 1 meet (10th straight) and its second (the first was a Group II title in 1984) State Group Title in 3 years. The indoor track team that year also won the State Group 1 Relay Meet and Individual Meet .
- Marching Band
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The school's marching band was Tournament of Bands Chapter One Champions in 1973-1975, 1977 and 1979 (Group 1). The marching band was Atlantic Coast Champion in Group 1 (1975, 1977 and 1979) and Atlantic Coast Champion in Group 2 in 1976. The band also won the Cavalcade of Bands Group 1 Open Championship in 2006.
- Administration
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Core members of the school's administration are:
- Dr. Paul T. Rufino - Principal
- Notable alumni
- Don Bragg (born 1935), Olympic gold medalist in the pole vault at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
- Bruce Willis (born 1955), Emmy- and Academy Award-winning actor.
- External links
- Penns Grove High School
- Penns Grove - Carneys Point Regional School District
- Data for the Penns Grove - Carneys Point Regional School District, National Center for Education Statistics
- 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.
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| About This Zip Code (10301) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
38,805 people |
18,208,943 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
37% |
32% |
| Population Average Age |
35 years old
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34 years old |
| Average Household size |
2.5 persons
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2.6 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$45,620
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$41,761 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
4.3 rooms |
4.6 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
58 years old |
56 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
40% / 60% |
42% / 58% |
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