Point Pleasant Beach High School
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 Point Pleasant Beach High School
Point Pleasant Beach High School
Point Pleasant Beach High School
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| 700 Trenton Avenue Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742 |
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| Type | Public high school |
| School district | Point Pleasant Beach School District |
| Principal | Terri M. King |
| Faculty | 31.6 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 371 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.7:1 |
| Color(s) |
Red and white |
| Athletics conference | Shore Conference |
| Team name | Garnet Gulls |
| Website | School website |
Point Pleasant Beach High School is a four-year, comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Point Pleasant Beach in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Point Pleasant Beach School District. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools.
In addition to the students of Point Pleasant Beach, the high school serves the students of Bay Head and Lavallette for grades 9-12 and those from Mantoloking for K-12, as part of sending/receiving relationships, as well as some students who attend on a tuition basis.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 371 students and 31.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 21 students (5.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 3 (0.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 83rd-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 78th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 58th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 59th in 2008 out of 316 schools, and was the top-ranked school in Ocean County in 2010 (Point Pleasant Boro High School was next with a ranking of 133rd). The school was ranked 68th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. In 2009, the school was ranked 59th in the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 70th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 104 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.7%) and language arts literacy (96.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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