Middletown High School North | |
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Location | |
63 Tindall Road Middletown, NJ 07748 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1966 |
Authority | Middletown Township Public School District |
Principal | Dr. Patricia Vari-Cartier |
Asst. principals | Caroline Buckley (Curriculum) (Vacant) (Freshman Academy) John Carmody (Guidance) Steven Trudell (Discipline) Neil Leone (Discipline) |
Faculty | 122.9 (on FTE basis) |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 1,488 (as of 2013-14) |
Student to teacher ratio | 12.1:1 |
Color(s) |
Orange and Black |
Athletics conference | Shore Conference |
Team name | Lions |
Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
Publication | Viewpoint |
Newspaper | The Lion's Roar |
Yearbook | Polaris |
Website | School website |
Middletown High School North, home of the Lions, is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of the two secondary schools of the Middletown Township Public School District. Other students from Middletown Township attend Middletown High School South. The school also houses a 750-seat theater. Approximately 90% of North students attend college after graduation. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1936.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,488 students and 122.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 191 students (12.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 76 (5.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 136th-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 128th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 159th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 143rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 164th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 93rd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 73 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (87.4%) and language arts literacy (96.4%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).