Pleasantville High School | |
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Location | |
701 Mill Road Pleasantville, NJ 08232 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
School district | Pleasantville Public Schools |
Principal | Kelvin Cherry (interim) |
Asst. principals | Edward Bonek Sherry Spence-Leslie |
Faculty | 83.6 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 746 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 8.9:1 |
Color(s) |
Maroon and white |
Athletics conference | Cape-Atlantic League |
Team name | Greyhounds |
Website | School website |
Pleasantville High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from the City of Pleasantville, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Pleasantville Public Schools, an Abbott District.
Students from Absecon attend the district's high school for grades 9-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Absecon Public School District.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 746 students and 83.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.9:1. There were 631 students (84.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 52 (7.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
In 2004, the Try-Math-A-Lon Team won the National Championship at the National Society of Black Engineers Conference (NSBE) in Dallas, Texas. In 2010 and 2011, the Try-Math-A-Lon teams won the regional championships and progressed to the Nationals in Boston and Orlando respectively where they placed second both years.
The school was the 311th-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 267th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 299th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 309th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 281st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 363rd out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 6 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).