Pitman High School | |
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Location | |
225 Linden Avenue Pitman, NJ 08071 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
School district | Pitman School District |
Principal | Cherie Hill Lombardo |
Asst. principal | Shea Murray |
Faculty | 41.6 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 401 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 9.6:1 |
Color(s) |
Orange black |
Athletics conference | Tri-County Conference |
Team name | Panthers |
Website | School website |
Pitman High School is a comprehensive community public high school in Pitman, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Pitman School District.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 401 students and 41.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.6:1. There were 22 students (5.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 198th-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 100th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 119th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 102nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 122nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 157th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 45 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (82.6%) and language arts literacy (93.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
The Pitman High School Panthers compete as one of the member schools in the Tri-County Conference, which operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 302 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 78 to 478 students in that grade range.