Jackson Memorial High School
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| 101 Don Connor Boulevard Jackson, NJ 08527 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1964 |
| School district | Jackson School District |
| Principal | Kevin DiEugenio |
| Asst. Principals | Daniel A. McDevitt Heather Novak Kyle Brunson |
| Faculty | 117.2 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,640 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 14.0:1 |
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Red Black |
| Athletics conference | Shore Conference |
| Team name | Jaguars |
| Website | memorial |
Jackson Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Jackson Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, opened in 1964 as part of the Jackson School District. It is the sister high school of Jackson Liberty High School, which opened in the late summer of 2006.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,640 students and 117.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.0:1. There were 175 students (10.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 55 (3.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Jackson Memorial High School first opened in 1964 as Jackson Junior-Senior High School. Before then, students living in Jackson attended Lakewood High School. The school was originally a single, one story building with three wings. Around 1970, a second story was added to one wing. In the 1980s, it was expanded to include the nearby middle school which became known as the Clayton building. The original high school building was known as the memorial building in the early 1990s; later it was renamed the Bernie Reider Hall, for a longtime wrestling coach and former principal. The Fine Arts building, added ca. 1993, connects the once separate Clayton building, previously a middle school, and the two-story Bernie Reider Hall.
The school was the 4th-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 188th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 181st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 216th in the magazine's September 2008 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 166th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 22 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (80.8%) and language arts literacy (94.1%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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