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| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades 9 - 12 |
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| County |
Burlington County, NJ |
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| Total Students |
1272 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
52% /
48% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
95 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Grade 9 - 316 students | | Grade 10 - 317 students | | Grade 11 - 297 students | | Grade 12 - 267 students | | Grade Not Listed - 75 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:13 |
1:13 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
n/a |
n/a |
| % Asian |
1% |
7% |
| % Hispanic |
5% |
15% |
| % Black |
92% |
17% |
| % White |
2% |
61% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
23% |
16% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
8% |
4% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
n/a |
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| School District Name |
Willingboro Township School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
11 |
5 |
| Number of Students Managed |
5,343 students |
2,429 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$72,640,000 |
$39,780,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$77,687,000 |
$39,973,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$13,595 |
$16,377 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$14,540 |
$16,457 |
| District Graduation Rates |
94% |
81% |
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- Willingboro High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Willingboro Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Willingboro Township Public Schools.
- As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,272 students and 95.0 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.4.
- The school was the 247th-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 300th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
- History
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The high school was opened in 1975 as a response to the overcrowded student population at John F. Kennedy, then the only high school in Willingboro, located just down the road on Kennedy Way. For a short time, residents were having a difficult time in deciding what to call the new Willingboro high school; some sought to name the new high school "J.F. Kennedy High School - East" while others debated on naming the school, "Robert F. Kennedy" after President Kennedy's brother, the former US Attorney General during his administration, Robert. A vote was taken and it was decided that the only appropriate name would be what the school is called today, "Willingboro High School." The school colors are navy blue, scarlet and white - which are the slight opposite of the school's former sister school, J.F.K. (which were scarlet, navy and white). The mascot is the "Chimera", a mythological monster with the head of a lion and body and wings of an eagle, opposite of the former sister school, which was a "Gryphon."
- The two schools were merged at the start of the 1989-90 school year, with all students attending what is now Willingboro High School.
- Athletics
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Willingboro High School competes in the Liberty Division of the Burlington County Scholastic League (BCSL), sports association under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). The league consists of public and parochial high schools covering Burlington County, Mercer County and Ocean County in central New Jersey. When WHS started its athletic competitions in 1975, the school was considered a "Group III" category school, next to the largest of schools (Group IV). During the 1980s, it moved up to Group IV and competed with many of the out-of-county schools in that populace grouping. But, since the Willingboro Township School District is experiencing financial woes and being taken-over by the state, as well as the student population falling drastically each year in the past seven years, the school now is barely able to compete as a Group II school and may very well be on their way to becoming a Group I school. Attendance at sporting events - most notably football and basketball, have been way down; nothing like what they were in the school's early history.
- The girls basketball team won the 2007 Group III State Championship, defeating South Plainfield High School 53-46 for the title. The team won the South, Group III state sectional championship in 2000 with a 47-35 win against Pemberton Township High School.
- Notable alumni
- City High group members Claudette Ortiz, Robby Pardlo and Ryan Toby.
- Crystal Langhorne (born 1986), women's basketball player for the University of Maryland and national champion in the 2006 NCAA Women's tournament. Langhorne was recently drafted by the Washington Mystics.
- Carl Lewis (born 1961), track and field legend, winner of ten Olympic medals, including nine gold medals.
- Kareem McKenzie (born 1979), National Football League offensive tackle.
- Shaun Phillips (born 1981), National Football League outside linebacker.
- Administration
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Core members of the school's administration are:
- Teresa-Anne Lucas, Principal
- Lori Binczewski, Assistant Principal
- Ellis Brown, Assistant Principal
- Nython Carter, Assistant Principal
- External links
- Willingboro High School
- Willingboro Township Public Schools
- Data for the Willingboro Township Public Schools, 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 (08046) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
33,008 people |
8,215,963 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
26% |
35% |
| Population Average Age |
38 years old
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36 years old |
| Average Household size |
3.1 persons
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2.6 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$60,869
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$55,509 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
6.7 rooms |
5.6 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
44 years old |
47 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
92% / 8% |
62% / 38% |
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