Egg Harbor Township High School | |
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Location | |
24 High School Drive Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234 United States |
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Coordinates | 39°23′38″N 74°37′41″W / 39.393799°N 74.627937°WCoordinates: 39°23′38″N 74°37′41″W / 39.393799°N 74.627937°W |
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Type | Public high school |
School district | Egg Harbor Township Schools |
Principal | Dr. Terry Charlton |
Asst. principals | Joel S. Chisholm Mark Walter Carleena Supp George West |
Faculty | 200.7 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 2,325 (as of 2015-16) |
Student to teacher ratio | 11.6:1 |
Color(s) |
Silver and Black |
Athletics conference | Cape-Atlantic League |
Team name | Eagles |
Yearbook | Aquila |
Website | School website |
Egg Harbor Township High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Egg Harbor Township in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Egg Harbor Township Schools.
As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,325 students and 200.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1. There were 879 students (37.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 223 (9.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 173rd-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 213th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 227th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 217th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 154th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 268th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 47 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).
The school yearbook received a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Medal in 2000.