Timber Creek Regional High School

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.[4] Timber Creek serves students from the southern portion of Gloucester Township.[5][6]

This article is about the high school in New Jersey. For the high school in Florida, see Timber Creek High School. For the high school in Texas, see Keller Independent School District.

Timber Creek Regional High School
Address
501 Jarvis Road

Gloucester Township
,
Camden County
,
New Jersey
08081

United States
Coordinates39.760518°N 75.013455°W / 39.760518; -75.013455
Information
TypePublic high school
Established2001
School districtBlack Horse Pike Regional School District
NCES School ID3401770[1]
PrincipalKelly A. McKenzie
Faculty89.1 FTEs[1]
Enrollment1,188 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio13.3:1[1]
Color(s)  Navy blue and
  silver[2]
Athletics conferenceTri-County Conference[3]
Team nameChargers[2]
Websitewww.bhprsd.org/timber

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 building is fully air-conditioned.

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,188 students and 89.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.3:1. There were 276 students (23.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 63 (5.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

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.[7] 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.[8] The magazine ranked the school 240th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[9] The school was ranked 250th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[10] 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).[11]

Athletics

The Timber Creek Regional High School Chargers[2] compete as one of the member schools in the Tri-County Conference, which includes public and parochial high schools located in Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties.[3] The conference is overseen by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[12] The school announced in 2018 that they would leave the Olympic Conference and join the Tri-County Conference for the 2020-21 school year, which would have the benefit of having all three schools in the Black Horse Pike District competing in the same athletic conference.[13] With 992 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 794 to 1,076 students in that grade range.[14] The football team competes in the National Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference[15][16] and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III South for football for 2018–2020.[17]

The baseball team won its first South Jersey Group III title in 2008, defeating Clearview Regional High School by a score of 9-3 to take the title game.[18][19]

The boys spring track team won the Group III state championship in 2008-2011, 2013 and 2014.[20] The team won Olympic Conference, South Jersey Group III championships and New Jersey Group III state championships every year from 2008 to 2011.[21] In the 2008-09 winter track season the 4x4 relay team of Derrick Henry, Allen Jackson, Saliym Starkey and Damiere Byrd ran an indoor record with the time of 3:21. In the 55, Damiere Byrd was named the fastest in Group III, ran the fastest time in the state, the fastest for a sophomore and a time that ranked eighth nationally, and he won the Group II titles in the 100, 200 and 400 meters in 2010.[21]

The wrestling team won the South Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012.[22] The team won their first sectional title in 2008, defeating second-seeded Hammonton High School in a close battle coming down to the last match, making it 30-29.[23]

The football team won the South Jersey Group III state sectional title in 2011 and won the South Jersey Group IV title in 2012 and 2016.[24] In 2016, the football team finished the season 12-0, winning the South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship by a score of 31-10 against Lenape High School in the tournament final.[25]

The boys track team won the indoor Group III state title in 2013 and 2014. The girls team won in Group III in 2017.[26]

The boys track team won the Group III indoor relay championship in 2016 and 2018 (as co-champion); the girls team won the 2017 Group III championship.[27]

With the group finals cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19, the boys basketball team was declared as South III regional champion.[28] The team won their first South Jersey, Group III title in 2008, defeating the top-seeded Hammonton High School 58-50 in the tournament final.[29][30]

Extracurricular activities

Timber Creek's Choir and Chorale and Voices of Jazz Vocal Groups have been invited and volunteered to sing for many occasions to service the community.

The drama program has shown play productions like Les Misérables, The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners High School, The Cinderella Complex, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Rebel Without a Cause as well as its musicals, a revue, Once Upon a Mattress, Little Shop of Horrors, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wiz, Damn Yankees, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, "Grease" and the most recent performance of Hairspray for the 2010-11 school year.

The Timber Creek Chargers Marching Band were Top 10 Atlantic Coast Championship finalists in 2006.[31] The band finished in second place at the 2007 United States Scholastic Band Association National Championships, competing as a Group I band at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland on November 16, 2007, with a score of 94.225.[32] In 2011, they won first place in Group 2A at the Tournament of Bands South Jersey Chapter Championships with a score of 93.05 at Clearview Regional High School.[33]

The Timber Creek Indoor Percussion Ensemble has been finalists in the Winter Guard International World Championships in 2009 and 2011. In 2010, the ensemble performed in the Percussion Scholastic A Class, winning Scholastic A Class Finals with a score of 96.713.[34]

The Theatre Arts classes also perform at various school-orientated performances for their fellow students. As of June 2007, Timber Creek has a National Art Honor Society chapter.

Timber Creek also provides numerous opportunities for students to get involved with after school. These include the French Club, Spanish Club, Cooking, Band, in addition to numerous other activities.

Timber Creek has a chapter of the National Honor Society to recognize students at the school, inducting juniors and seniors who meet the Honor Society ideals of character, scholarship, leadership, and service.[35]

Administration

The school's principal is Kelly A. McKenzie. Her core administration team includes five vice principals, including one for each grade.[36]

Notable alumni

References
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  5. District Home: Registration Info tab, Black Horse Pike Regional School District. Accessed February 6, 2017. "What school will you be attending? All Bellmawr and Runnemede residents attend Triton Regional High School. Gloucester Township residents Click Here to view the District Map."
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  15. Divisions, West Jersey Football League. Accessed September 5, 2020.
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  22. NJSIAA Wrestling Team Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2020.
  23. Staff. "S. Jersey Boys: Timber Creek tops Hammonton for mat crown", The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 16, 2008. Accessed June 5, 2011. "Trailing Hammonton by 29-25 with one bout left in the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 3 final, visiting Timber Creek managed to tie the match when Lowry decisioned Alex Zeborowski. And by virtue of having two pins to Hammonton's one, the Chargers took the meet..."
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  32. Group I, M&T Bank Stadium, November 16, 2007, United States Scholastic Band Association. For the 2008-09 school year, the band placed first in Group 2 with a score of 91 at the USSBA 20th Anniversary show and placed 7th overall. Accessed November 18, 2007.
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  34. 2010 Percussion A Class Finals - Results , Winter Guard International, April 16, 2010. Accessed October 23, 2011.
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  40. Hines named to CHN's Pre-season Mid-Major All-American First Team. "Hines, a 6-6, 230 lb (100 kg). senior from Sicklerville, NJ and a product of Timber Creek HS, was the school's first-ever Conference Player of the Year and AP All-America Honorable Mention selection last season." Accessed January 8, 2008.
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