Ocean City High School
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| 501 Atlantic Avenue Ocean City, NJ 08226 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1904 |
| School district | Ocean City School District |
| Principal | Dr. Matthew Jamison |
| Asst. principals | Michael Mattina Dr. Wendy O'Neal |
| Faculty | 103.0 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,262 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.3:1 |
| Color(s) |
Red and white |
| Athletics conference | Cape-Atlantic League |
| Team name | Red Raiders |
| Website | School website |
Ocean City High School (OCHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Ocean City, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Ocean City School District. Students from the Corbin City, Sea Isle City and Upper Township school districts attend Ocean City High School as part of sending/receiving relationships.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,262 students and 103.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1. There were 170 students (13.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 58 (4.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 67th in New Jersey and 1,938th nationwide. In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Ocean City High School was listed in 1210th place, the 41st-highest ranked school in New Jersey.
In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast ranked the school 872nd in the nation among participating public high schools and 65th among schools in New Jersey.
The school was the 118th-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 63rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 99th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 110th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 93rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 154th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 53 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.2%) and language arts literacy (93.5%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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