Matawan Regional High School | |
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Location | |
450 Atlantic Avenue Aberdeen, NJ 07747 |
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Type | Regional public high school |
Motto | Excellence in education |
Established | 1924 |
School district | Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District |
Principal | Michele Ruscavage |
Asst. principals | Sean Cronin Frank Liotti Phil Tyburczy Mike Wells |
Faculty | 92.2 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 1,049 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 11.4:1 |
Color(s) |
Maroon and steel gray |
Athletics conference | Shore Conference |
Team name | Huskies |
Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
Newspaper | Huskyview |
Yearbook | The Pillar |
Website | School website |
Matawan Regional High School is a four-year regional public high school located in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District. Serving students from Aberdeen Township and Matawan, it is one of Monmouth County's largest schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1951. The school mascot is a husky.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,049 students and 92.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1. There were 219 students (20.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 91 (8.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 139th-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 92nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 126th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 111th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 115th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 253rd out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 38 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).