Haddon Township High School | |
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Location | |
406 Memorial Avenue Westmont, NJ 08108 United States |
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Coordinates | 39°54′18″N 75°03′23″W / 39.904873°N 75.056383°WCoordinates: 39°54′18″N 75°03′23″W / 39.904873°N 75.056383°W |
Information | |
Type | Public high school |
School district | Haddon Township School District |
Principal | Gary O'Brien |
Asst. principals | Tim George Andrew Swiecicki |
Faculty | 50.8 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 651 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 12.8:1 |
Color(s) |
Red and white |
Athletics conference | Colonial Conference |
Team name | Hawks |
Yearbook | The Anvil |
Website | haddontwpschools.com |
Haddon Township High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Haddon Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Haddon Township School District. The school offers courses in math, science, languages, humanities and various vocational skills. It also offers athletics and after-school clubs and organizations. The school follows a quarter-semester system, uses a 5-point GPA scale, and offers Advanced Placement and Honors courses, both of which use a weighted average grading system.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 651 students and 50.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. There were 66 students (10.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 34 (5.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 108th-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 50th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 97th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 80th in 2008 out of 316 schools. Previously, in 2006, the magazine ranked the school 77th out of 316 schools in New Jersey. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 141st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 11 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.0%) and language arts literacy (93.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).