West Deptford High School | |
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Location | |
1600 Old Crown Point Road West Deptford, NJ 08093 |
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Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Motto | "Building Excellence and Success Through Teamwork" |
School district | West Deptford Public Schools |
Principal | Brian Gismondi |
Asst. principal | Tim Cammarota Jason Morrell Kelly Saia |
Faculty | 65.4 FTEs |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 915 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 14.0:1 |
Color(s) |
Green white and black |
Athletics conference | Colonial Conference |
Team name | Eagles |
West Deptford High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from West Deptford Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the West Deptford Public Schools.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 888 students and 64.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.8:1. There were 174 students (19.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 64 (7.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Core members of the school's administration are:
The school was the 152nd-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 219th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 182nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 185th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 170th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
West Deptford High School Eagles compete as a member school in the Colonial Conference, which is composed of small schools whose enrollments generally do not exceed 800 students for grades 9-12, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 701 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 496 to 778 students in that grade range. The school competes in Varsity Tier II of the South Jersey High School Ice Hockey League, a high school ice hockey league with 20 teams participating at the varsity level from South Jersey.