Hammonton High School

Hammonton High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hammonton, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hammonton Public Schools.

Hammonton High School
Address
566 Old Forks Road

Hammonton
,
Atlantic County
,
New Jersey
08037

United States
Coordinates39.657496°N 74.810487°W / 39.657496; -74.810487
Information
TypePublic high school
Established2002
School districtHammonton Public Schools
NCES School ID3406570[1]
PrincipalThomas Ramsay
Faculty97.4 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,393 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio14.3:1[1]
Color(s)  Royal Blue and
  white[2]
Athletics conferenceCape-Atlantic League
Team nameBlue Devils[2]
Websitehhs.hammontonschools.org

Students from Folsom Borough and Waterford Township attend Hammonton High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Folsom Borough School District and the Waterford Township School District.[3][4][5]

Opened in 2002, Hammonton High School is the newest school facility of the Hammonton Public Schools.[6]

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,393 students and 97.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.3:1. There were 422 students (30.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 65 (4.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

Hammonton High School's boys' swimming and diving team was recognized with the Boys Gold Award by the 2005-06 NISCA/Kiefer Scholar Team Award.[7]

The school was the 229th-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.[8] The school had been ranked 288th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 233rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[9] The magazine ranked the school 239th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[10] The school was ranked 233rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[11] Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 175th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 44 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (81.2%) and language arts literacy (92.4%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[12]

Athletics

The Hammonton High School Blue Devils[2] compete in the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference that operates under the aegis of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[13] The school, a founding member of the Cape-Atlantic League in 1949, had been a member of the Tri-County Conference from 2014 to 2020, returning to the Cape-Atlantic League for the 2020-21 school year.[14] With 1,071 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range.[15] The football team competes in the American Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference[16][17] and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV South for football for 2018–2020.[18]

The softball team won the Group I state championship in 1980 (defeating Roselle Park High School in the tournament final) and the Group II title in 1986 (vs. Jefferson Township High School).[19] The 1986 team finished the season with a 30-3 record after taking the Group I title with a 4-1 win in extra innings against Jefferson Township in the championship game.[20] The team won the 2007 South, Group III state sectional championship with a 6-5 win over Central Regional High School.[21]

The football team won the NJSIAA South Jersey Group II state sectional championship in 1985, 1993, 1994 and 1996, won the South Jersey Group III sectional in 2009 and the Central Jersey Group IV title in 2019.[22] The football team won the 2009 South Jersey Group III sectional championship with a 23-17 win over Timber Creek Regional High School, the program's first Group III title.[23] The 2019 team own the Central Jersey Group IV title with a 28-12 win against Jackson Memorial High School.[24]

The girls' field hockey team won the South Jersey Group II state sectional title in 1996 and lost to West Essex High School in the Group II finals.[25]

The wrestling team won the South Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 2009.[26]

Marching band

The school's marching band was Chapter One champions in 1973-1979 (Group 3), 1980-1981 (Group 4), 1983 (Group 3), 1989-1990 (Group 2) and 1998 (Group 1). The marching band was Atlantic Coast Champion in Group 3 every year from 1974-1979 and again in 1983.[27] The band was the All-State Champion in 2002 and 2005, and the State Champion in 2004 in USSBA competition. The band also won state championships in 2008 USSBA competition as well as in 2016.[28]

Administration

Thomas Ramsay is the school's principal. His administration team includes two assistant principals.[29]

References
  1. School data for Hammonton High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Hammonton High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. Hammonton Public Schools 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 5, 2016. "The Hammonton Public School System serves children from Hammonton, Waterford, and Folsom – as well as over 140 NJ Department of Education Choice students."
  4. Schools, Towns of Hammonton. Accessed June 6, 2016. "Residents from Waterford attend grades 7 through 12. Residents of Folsom and Collings Lakes attend the Hammonton High School in grades 9 through 12 at a brand-new high school on a 118-acre campus."
  5. Puko, Timothy. "Sending Towns Feeling Pinched by Hammonton", The Press of Atlantic City, March 13, 2007. Accessed June 29, 2011. "The two school districts that send students to Hammonton are disputing tuition adjustments that would allow Hammonton School District to avoid a tax hike this year but cause large tax hikes in the sending districts. The school budgets for Hammonton and its sending districts Waterford and Folsom could hang in limbo well past next month's school board elections, and Waterford and Folsom could be left with budget fights and massive cuts, sending district superintendents said."
  6. Schools, Town of Hammonton. Accessed September 25, 2017. "The Hammonton Middle School was built in 1966 and is currently slated for $2.5 million in improvements, the Warren E. Sooy Elementary School was opened in 1976, the Hammonton Early Childhood Education Center opened in 2001 and the Hammonton High School welcomed its first classes in 2002.... Pictured above is the new courtyard at the Hammonton High School. The school was constructed in 2002."
  7. 2005-2006 NISCA/Kiefer Scholar Team Award, accessed March 2, 2007.
  8. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  9. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 12, 2012.
  10. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 1, 2011.
  11. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  12. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 6, 2012.
  13. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  14. McGarry, Mike. "Hammonton High School to rejoin Cape-Atlantic League in 2020-21", The Press of Atlantic City, November 16, 2019. Accessed November 18, 2020. "Hammonton High School is back where it belongs. The Atlantic County school will rejoin the Cape-Atlantic League in 2020-21 for all sports except football.... Hammonton was one of the CAL’s six founding members when the league began in 1949.... Hammonton left the CAL for the Tri-County Conference in 2014."
  15. NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  16. Divisions, West Jersey Football League. Accessed September 5, 2020.
  17. Minnick, Kevin. "Football: Entering 10th season, a new leader for state’s second-largest conference", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 8, 2019. Accessed September 5, 2020. "The WJFL was created in 2010 as a way to help teams play a full schedule and face opponents of similar size, ability and geographical location.... The league is comprised of 16 divisions and includes better than 90 high schools."
  18. NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2018–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, finalized August 2019. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  19. NJSIAA Softball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  20. Mayer, John. "Eastern's defense throttles Ridgewood", The Record, June 8, 1986. Accessed January 5, 2021. "Nelly Cruz and Carolyn Lucca each stroked run-scoring singles as Hammonton scored three runs in the top of the eighth inning to post a 4-1 victory over Jefferson in the NJSIAA Group 2 final. Barbara Sbarra (24-3) threw a two-hitter for the Blue Devils (30-3)."
  21. 2007 Softball - South, Group III, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed June 11, 2007.
  22. NJSIAA Football History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  23. McGarry, Michael. "Hammonton beats Timber Creek 23-17 for South Jersey Group III football title", The Press of Atlantic City, December 5, 2009. Accessed September 4, 2011. "The Hammonton High School football team needed 2 yards on fourth down in the fourth quarter to help clinch its first South Jersey championship in 13 years Friday night.... Top-seeded Hammonton, No. 2 in The Press' Elite 11, staved off a Timber Creek comeback to win the South Jersey Group III championship 23-17."
  24. Roland, Casey. "Hammonton defeats Jackson Memorial in CJG4 final, wins 1st sectional in 10 years", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 23, 2019. Accessed October 5, 2020. "Fortunately for Hammonton, junior Jaiden Abrams made several big plays both on the ground and through the air, rushing for two touchdowns and catching another to lead top-seeded Hammonton to a 28-12 victory over second-seeded Jackson Memorial to give the Blue Devils their first sectional championship since 2009."
  25. History of NJSIAA Field Hockey Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  26. NJSIAA Wrestling Team Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  27. Atlantic Coast Champions by Year, Tournament of Bands. Accessed October 5, 2020.
  28. Tournament of Bands - Chapter One History, Tournament of Bands. Accessed July 5, 2007.
  29. Administration, Hammonton High School. Accessed November 22, 2019.
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