Manasquan High School

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Manasquan High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Manasquan, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Manasquan Public Schools.

In addition to students from Manasquan, the high school serves students from Belmar, Brielle, Sea Girt, Spring Lake, Spring Lake Heights, and Avon-by-the-Sea (during the 2004-2005 school year, there were seven students from Avon) who attended Manasquan High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective school districts.[1]

Manasquan High School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. In March 2004, a validation team visited the school and recommended that the school's accreditation should be extended.[2]

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[edit] Awards and recognition

In 1996-97, Manasquan High School's Horticultural Botany program, taught at Barlow's Flower Farm, was recognized by the New Jersey Department of Education as a "Best Practice" of educational partnership.[3]

[edit] Curriculum

The Course Ahead Program allows seniors to take courses in European and American History, Calculus, and Entrepreneurship at Georgian Court College for college credit.

The Academy of Finance program focuses on the field finance, using a curriculum that combines traditional classroom instruction, with lectures from experts in the subject, mentoring and job shadowing with industry specialists. Students gain practical knowledge and skills through a paid summer internship that is required as part of the program. Students are awarded a Certificate in Financial Studies upon satisfactory completion of the Academy curriculum mandates.

[edit] Athletics

The High School is known for its intense sports rivalry with Wall High School in Wall Township (the previous rivalry was with Point Pleasant).

[edit] Administration

  • Cary D. McCormack - Principal

[edit] Notable alumni

  • Manasquan High School's best-known alumnus is actor Jack Nicholson, who graduated from the school in 1953.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ About MBOE, accessed September 7, 2006
  2. ^ MIDDLE STATES ACCREDITATION FOR GROWTH PROGRESS UPDATE September 2004, accessed November 1, 2006
  3. ^ New Jersey Best Practices Award Recipient, accessed November 1, 2006
  4. ^ Jack Nicholson from NNDB, accessed November 24, 2006

[edit] External links

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