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Spotswood High School

105 Summerhill Road, Spotswood, NJ, 08884-1292 -

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Definition of Terms

Spotswood High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Middlesex County, NJ

Students & Faculty

Total Students

798 students

% Male / % Female

54% / 46%

Total Classroom Teachers

54 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 181 students

Grade 10 - 209 students

Grade 11 - 213 students

Grade 12 - 187 students

Grade Not Listed - 8 students

This School

(NJ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:15

1:13

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(NJ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	4%	7%
% Hispanic	7%	15%
% Black	2%	17%
% White	87%	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

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School District Name

Spotswood Boro School District

This School's Agency

(NJ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	4	5
Number of Students Managed	1,859 students	2,429 students
District Total Revenue	$24,000,000	$39,780,000
District Expenditure	$26,227,000	$39,973,000
District Revenue / Student	$12,910	$16,377
District Expenditure / Student	$14,108	$16,457
District Graduation Rates	98%	81%

A Big Challenge For Blazers: Amherst Looks Amazing (The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record)
posted on November 20, 2009 at 06:31:28 am
HARRISONBURG - The Spotswood High School football team fully understands what it's walking into.
Tough Decision Looms For SHS Students, Parents (The Valley Banner)
posted on November 18, 2009 at 07:03:46 pm
To stay or not to stay, that is the question for several hundred Spotswood High School juniors, who have a choice of staying at Spotswood for their senior year or relocating to the new East Rockingham High School near Elkton. About 80 of those still deliberating students showed up at a meeting in SHS’ auditorium last week to hear S
EPA To Host Hearing On Pollution Limits (The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record)
posted on November 18, 2009 at 06:44:36 am
HARRISONBURG - Spotswood High School in Penn Laird will host a public hearing next month on proposed pollution limits for waterways that lead to the Chesapeake Bay.
EPA to hold four Virginia hearings on proposed bay TMDL (The Warren Sentinel)
posted on November 16, 2009 at 02:29:25 pm
The hearings will be held Dec. 14 at Falls Church High School in Fairfax County, Dec. 15 at 2007 Legacy Hall in Williamsburg, Dec. 16 at Spotswood High School in Rockingham County and Dec. 17 at the Wingate Inn in Fredericksburg. Each will begin at 6:30 p.m. and conclude at 8:30 p.m.
SHS No. 2 In AA' (The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record)
posted on November 16, 2009 at 06:46:38 am
HARRISONBURG - The Spotswood High School boys' cross country team has celebrated each title it's won this season by carrying the trophy around at school the following Monday.

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Spotswood High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade in Spotswood, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Spotswood Public Schools. Students from Milltown also attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Milltown Public Schools. Students from Helmetta attend the school as well. Helmetta is the next town over from Spotswood and does not have a School District of their own. Unlike Milltown students, students from Helmetta attend school in Spotswood beginning in Grammar School.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 798 students and 54.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 14.6.
The school was the 126th-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 183rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Awards and recognition
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, the highest award an American school can receive. Unfortunately the award would not be given out today. The school's teachers were the lowest paid in New Jersey up until 2008.
Athletics
The Spotswood High School Chargers compete in the Blue Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference.
Cross Country
The Men's Cross Country Team had a 33 consecutive dual meet winning streak from 2001-2006. The team qualified for its first ever Meet of Champions in the 2005 season, by finishing second to Cranford High School in the State Group II meet. The team finished 13th in the 2005 Meet of Champions.
The team finished 2nd in both the State Sectional and Group meets. In 2006 the men's team won the State Group II Title and again advanced to the Meet of Champions.
Baseball
2007 Central Jersey Group II Champions, with a 1-0 win over Somerville High School.
2007 GMC Tournament Champions
2007 NJSIAA Group II Baseball State Champions, defeating Sterling High School 13-2 in the semifinals and Indian Hills High School 11-1 in the group final.
Tennis
2004 Blue Division Champions under the coaching of Gary Hull and Jeff Marvinny
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
Thomas Calder - Principal (Peter Karitzki- former)
Scott Horowitz - Assistant Principal ( Dan Silvia- former Kurt Holtz- former, Thomas Calder- former)
Notable faculty
Jamie Egan was once a music teacher at Spotswood's Appleby Elementary School. He is most noted for his performances with influential New Jersey ska bands Catch 22, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, and Streetlight Manifesto.
Notable Students
Michael "Jersey" Moriarty the bassist for the hit band Hey Monday attended this school graduating in the class of 2004.
External links
Spotswood High School
Spotswood Public Schools
Data for the Spotswood Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

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