Timber Creek Regional High School | |
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Location | |
501 Jarvis Road Erial, NJ 08081 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 2001 |
Principal | Kasha Giddins |
Vice principals | Garry Saunders (9th grade) Robert Milavsky (10th grade) Donnetta Beatty (11th grade) Robert DiMaulo Jr. (12th grade) |
Faculty | 90.4 FTEs |
Enrollment | 1,320 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 14.6:1 |
Color(s) |
Navy blue and silver |
Athletics conference | Olympic Conference |
Team name | Chargers |
Timber Creek Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades located in the Erial section in southern Gloucester Township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as one of the three secondary schools of the Black Horse Pike Regional School District. When the school opened in 2001, attendance zones were realigned to relieve overcrowding conditions at Highland and Triton high schools. Timber Creek serves students from the southern portion of Gloucester Township.
Timber Creek High School sits on 278,000 square feet (25,800 m2) and contains 32 academic classrooms, 12 laboratory classrooms, a music suite, two art classrooms, an industrial technology lab and a design-drafting classroom. In the high school itself there is an auditorium which seats 1,000 people, a cafeteria, and a library-media center which contains a television studio. The whole building is fully air-conditioned.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,320 students and 90.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.6:1. There were 270 students (20.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 101 (7.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 182nd-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 246th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 219th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 240th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 250th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 244th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 9 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).