Keyport High School | |
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Location | |
351 Broad Street Keyport, NJ 07735 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1927 |
School district | Keyport Public Schools |
Principal | Michael Waters Sr. |
Asst. principal | Kevin Flynn |
Faculty | 97.0 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 388 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 4.0:1 |
Color(s) |
Red and white |
Athletics conference | Shore Conference |
Team name | Red Raiders |
Website | School website |
Keyport High School is a four-year public high school in Keyport, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, operated as the lone secondary school of the Keyport Public Schools. Students from Union Beach attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Union Beach School System. The existing three-story building was constructed in 1927.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 388 students and 97.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 4.0:1. There were 168 students (43.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 50 (12.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 216th-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 226th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 249th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 265th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 207th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
The Keyport High School Red Raiders compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore. All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County, and the league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 280 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015–16 school year as Central Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 12 to 467 students in that grade range.