Deptford Township High School
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 Deptford High School
Deptford High School
Deptford High School
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| 575 S. Fox Run Road Deptford, NJ 08096 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1954 |
| Principal | Melvin Allen |
| Vice principals | Meredith Alexander Brian Wert |
| Faculty | 79.1 FTEs |
| Enrollment | 1,064 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13.5:1 |
| Color(s) |
Vegas gold and black |
| Athletics conference | Tri-County Conference |
| Team name | Spartans |
| Newspaper | Spartan Spirit |
| Yearbook | Dorian |
| Website | School website |
Deptford Township High School (also Deptford High School) is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Deptford Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Deptford Township Schools.
The first classes taught at Gloucester County College when it opened in the summer of 1967 were held at Deptford Township High School.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,064 students and 79.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.5:1. There were 356 students (33.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 111 (10.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 259th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 242nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 255th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 252nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 226th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 229th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 26 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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