Robbinsville High School (New Jersey)

Robbinsville High School is a comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Robbinsville Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Robbinsville Public School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 2008.[3]

Robbinsville High School
Front entrance of Robbinsville High School, Robbinsville, New Jersey
Address
155 Robbinsville Edinburg Road

Robbinsville Township
,
Mercer County
,
New Jersey
08691

United States
Coordinates40.237371°N 74.615212°W / 40.237371; -74.615212
Information
TypePublic high school
MottoRespect Achievement Vision Experience aNd Success (RAVENS)
Established2005
School districtRobbinsville Public School District
NCES School ID3417100[1]
PrincipalMolly C. Avery
Faculty74.0 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,053 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio14.2:1[1]
Color(s)  Black
  Red
  White[2]
Athletics conferenceColonial Valley Conference
Team nameRavens[2]
Websiterhs.robbinsville.k12.nj.us

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,053 students and 74.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.2:1. There were 21 students (2.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 19 (1.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 59th-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.[4] The school had been ranked 110th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 109th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[5] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 43rd out of 389 public high schools statewide in its 2012 rankings, which was based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (94.4%) and language arts literacy (98.1%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[6]

The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association recognized Robbinsville High School as the Group I winner of the Seventh Annual ShopRite Cup in 2009–10, based on the overall performances of the school's athletic teams which included first-place finishes in boys' cross country and girls' soccer, second place in girls' cross country, third-place finishes in indoor track & field, baseball (tie) and wrestling (tie), along with finishing fourth in both girls' indoor relays and girls' outdoor track and field, with bonus points awarded for not having any disqualifications during the three sports seasons.[7]

History and facilities

The school was first opened in 2004 as a wing in the middle school to house ninth graders. There was a great struggle in the community to get the high school approved, and when it was approved, the vote was extremely close. The plan was to start with only freshmen and each year fill in an additional grade. In 2005, the new high school building opened.

As of the 2006–07 school year, only students in 12th grade from Robbinsville Township were attending Lawrence High School in Lawrence Township, as part of the final year of a sending/receiving relationship with the Lawrence Township Public Schools. With the start of the 2007–08 school year, the sending relationship had ended, and Robbinsville High School began to serve all of Robbinsville Township's high school students on site. The school graduated its first class of 150 students in June 2008.

The school features a large common area with an atrium to serve as a cafeteria as well as several other purposes, an attached music wing, a central hallway which connects the commons area to the four main wings, the kitchen, the black box theater, the 1,000-seat auditorium with a 12-foot-deep (3.7 m) opera pit, the gymnasium wing (including a main gym, auxiliary gym, the weight room, locker rooms, and the trainer's office), and the main office as well as administrators offices on the first floor and contains much technology including a recording studio. Outside, there is a rubberized turf football field along with a track, an aerial obstacle course, and numerous sports fields for all seasons.

Curriculum

Robbinsville High School offers a diverse curriculum to its students covering an art department, business department, English/ language arts department, family and consumer science department, health department, mathematics department, music and performing arts department, science department, social studies department, technology department, and world languages department. Students may also take classes at nearby colleges, typically Mercer County Community College.

Advanced Placement

Robbinsville High School offers advanced placement college credit in the following courses:[8]

Extracurricular activities

Extracurricular activities and clubs offered at the high school include:[9]

  • Chinese Club
  • The RHS Choir
  • Dance Team
  • Debate Team
  • Drama Club
  • Friends of Rachel Club
  • Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
  • Future Educators of America
  • Gay-Straight Alliance Club
  • Harry's Helping Hands
  • Improv Club
  • Interact Club
  • Language Honor Society
  • Literary Magazine
  • Marching Band (including Color Guard)
  • Math Club
  • Model U.N.
  • Mock Trial
  • National Honor Society
  • Robotics Team
  • Science Olympiad
  • Ski Club
  • Spanish Club
  • Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
  • Red Cross Club
  • RHS Executive Council (Student Body Government)
  • Class Councils (Class Governments)
  • Technology Student Association
  • Tri-M Music Honor Society

Debate team

The debate team finished an undefeated season in 2010 and was named Colonial Valley Conference champions. In 2011 the debate team renewed their title as champions.[10]

Raven Regiment

The regiment received the "Best Visuals" award at the NJ State Marching Band Competition in 2009, and won 4th out of 23 bands at the Northern states Marching Band Competition in 2010. In their 2011 season, the Regiment took 7th out of 21 at Nationals in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The band also moved up from a 1A class to a 2A class band.

In 2012, the Raven Regiment was the only New Jersey band invited to perform at the 2nd Annual Pearl Harbor Day Parade in Honolulu, Hawai'i.

In 2014, the band received the award for "Best Color Guard" at the USBands 2A state championships. They later placed 5th out of 18 bands at the National Championships.

The Raven Regiment moved up from a 2A to a 3A class band in 2015.[11]

In 2018, the Raven Regiment won 1st place out of 9 bands at the USBands New Jersey State Championships (III A) in Glassboro, NJ, on October 28. The following week, the Raven Regiment placed 2nd out of 16 bands at the USBands A Class National Championships (III) in Allentown, PA, on November 4.[12]

Robotics

With the assistance of a NASA 2008 rookie grant, Nemesis-FIRST Robotics Competition team 2590 won the "Rookie All Star," "Highest Scoring Rookie," and "Finalist" awards, and received the Entrepreneurship Award in 2009, 2012 and the 2012 Chairman's Award at the Lenape District. Nemesis won the 2012 Montreal Regional and the Lenape District and has placed in the top 10 at the New Jersey, Boston & Washington DC Regionals and awarded the 2010 "Industrial Design" Award and 2011, 2012 "NJ Best Website Award" and were semifinalists at the World Championship in St. Louis. As a Project Lead the Way High School, qualified students earn three college credits for successful completion of projects-based pre-engineering classes that teach fundamental problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. In 2011, RHS gained national recognition as an Exemplary Career and Technical Education (CTE) program by the National Association of State Directors of CTE for the implementation of PLTW and the FIRST Robotics Team.[13]

In 2013 Nemesis won the Chairman's Award and also ranked first in the Mid-Atlantic. They finished the season as quarter-finalists in the Archimedes Division of the FIRST World Championship. In 2014 they went further to win first place in the Archimedes Division and then became Einstein Field semifinalists.

Theatre department

During autumn, a dramatic play is performed. In the spring, the school performs a musical, and then a series of acts named the "Senior One Acts" where the seniors direct one-act plays with other students as performers. Students from the theatre department have also participated in a competition hosted by the Speech and Theatre Association of New Jersey, and the New Jersey State Thespian Festival. Other activities include an improvisation club as well as a drama club, and a competition of Shakespearean acts in the spring.

The Theatre Department has given many performances including:

Athletics

The Robbinsville High School Ravens[2] compete in the Colonial Valley Conference, which comprises high schools located in Mercer County, Monmouth County and Middlesex County, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[14] With 684 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015–16 school year as Central Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 498 to 750 students in that grade range.[15] The football team competes in the Liberty Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference[16][17] and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III South for football for 2018–2020.[18]

The school participates as the host school / lead agency for joint cooperative ice hockey and boys / girls swimming teams with Allentown High School. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.[19]

Interscholastic sports offered at Robbinsville High School include:[2][20]

Baseball

In 2008, the baseball team turned a 2007 season total of two wins into a 16–14 record, a Group I Central Jersey sectional championship and a spot in the state final before losing to Lyndhurst High School in the tournament final. In 2009, the team advanced to the state tournament, but lost 9–7 to David Brearley High School. The 2010 team won a school-record 23 games and the program's second Central Jersey Group I sectional championship. The 2011 team went 25–4, and won their first ever Mercer County Tournament championship, defeating Steinert High School for only the second time in school history (the first being earlier that season).[21]

Cross country

The boys cross country team qualified for the state finals in 2006 and 2007, and won the Group I state championship in 2009.[22] The girls' cross country team was 2nd in Central Jersey Group I and qualified for states in 2007 and 2009.

The girls won the Group I state title in 2008 with Megan Flynn as the individual Group I winner that season.[23]

In the fall of 2010 both the boys' and girls' cross country teams captured the Patriot Division after deciding victories over Hopewell Valley Central High School at Mercer County Park. The boys finished with a dual meet record of 10-3 and the girls finished with a record of 12–1.

Again in 2011, the boys team captured the title as Patriot Division Champions.

Field hockey

The girls' field hockey team qualified for the 2007 North II Group I tournament, ending their regular season with a record of 12–4, and placed as the #3 seed in the tournament.[24] The field hockey team secured the 4th seed in the 2007 Mercer County Tournament, and advanced to the semi-finals before falling to Stuart Country Day School in overtime, 2–1, and advanced to the sectional semi-finals again in 2011.[25]

Football

In 2007, the varsity football team finished the regular season with a 6–3 record and qualified for the NJSIAA playoffs, losing to Asbury Park High School, the eventual Group I Champions, by a 41–0 score in the first round of the Central Jersey, Group I tournament.[26]

On November 2, 2019, the varsity football team won the West Jersey Division Championship on the road against Haddon Township High School with a final score of 8–2. For the first time, Robbinsville finished the regular season undefeated at 9–0.

Ice hockey

The boys ice hockey team won the Patriot Division and went to the Mercer County quarterfinals, NJSIAA Public B first round.

Soccer

The girls' soccer team won the Group I state title in 2008 (defeating Waldwick High School in the championship game) and 2009 (vs. Cresskill High School).[27] The girls' soccer team made it to the 2006 state playoff tournament for Central Jersey Group I, defeating Middlesex High School 2–1 in the first round, before falling to Metuchen High School by 2–0 in the semifinals.[28] The 2008 team won the Group I state title with a 3-0 win against Waldwick High School in the playoff finals.[29]

Softball

The softball team has won state championships in Group II in 2011 (againt runner-up Pequannock Township High School in the tournament final), 2013 (vs. Hanover Park High School), 2017 (vs. Ramsey High School) and 2018 (vs. Ramsey).[30]

The 2011 team won the Group II state championship with a 2–1 win against Pequannock Township High School in the final game of the tournament, capping off a season in which the team finished 24-0 and had won the Mercer County Tournament.[31]

In 2013, the softball team won the NJSIAA Group II softball championship for the second time in three years.[32] That year, the softball team became "the first from Mercer [County] to reach three straight state finals and the third from the county to win two state titles."[33]

In 2017, the softball team won the Group II state championship, defeating previously unbeaten Ramsey High School by a score of 2–0 in the tournament final, to win the program's third state championship.[34] The team advanced to the inaugural New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association softball Tournament of Champions as the third seed, losing to sixth-seeded Group I champion Cedar Grove High School by a score of 2–1 in the first round.[35]

Swimming

In 2012, the girls swim team earned the Patriot's Division title. The RHS swim team is a co-ed team, however in 2013 the team successfully gained enough members for separate gender swim teams.

Track and field

In 2008, the girls' track and field team won both the NJSIAA Group I Central Jersey sectional championship and the Group I state championship.[36] The girls team won the track and field Central Jersey Group I title for the third time in four years, and the boys also won the sectional championships in 2011. In 2009 the girls team came in 2nd in sectionals and in 2007 in 3rd. In 2012 the girls team won their Division for the first time. In 2013 the girls spring track team won the County Championship for the first time.[37]

Wrestling

In 2010, the wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional championship.[38]

Administration

The school's principal is Molly Avery. Her core administration team includes two assistant principals.[39]

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