North Hunterdon High School

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North Hunterdon High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Annandale (in Clinton Township). The school serves 1,464 students from six municipalities in northern Hunterdon County as one of two high schools in the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District.

Students in the high school hail from Bethlehem Township, Clinton Town, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough and Union Township.

1 Awards and recognition
2 Athletics
3 Administration
4 See also
5 Notable alumni
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Awards and recognition

For the 2001-02 school year, North Hunterdon High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education^[1], the highest award an American school can receive.^[2]^[3]

North Hunterdon High School was the 37th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools^[4].

[edit] Athletics

North Hunterdon High School competes in the Skyland Conference, which is comprised of eighteen public and parochial high schools covering Hunterdon County, Somerset County and Warren County in west central New Jersey. The conference operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA)

[edit] Administration

Michael Hughes - Principal
John Hahola - Assistant Principal for Instruction
Irene Dolan - Assistant Principal for Operations
John Deutsch - Assistant Principal for Athletics
Michael Gleason - Disciplinarian

[edit] See also

Voorhees High School, which serves students from Califon Borough, Glen Gardner Borough, Hampton Borough, High Bridge Borough, Lebanon Township and Tewksbury Township.

[edit] Notable alumni

Toria Layne Avigliano [1] - Artist and Photographer (1994)
Sandra Burton - Writer, Time magazine and author of Impossible Dream: The Marcoses, the Aquinos, and the Unfinished Revolution.
Anne Marie Lauck - Runner who competed in the Summer Olympic games in 1996 (10th place in marathon) and 2000 (5000m)^[5]
Peter Ostrum - Actor, Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory^[6]
Gary Vaynerchuk - Host of Wine Library TV (1994)

[edit] References

^ Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982-1983 through 1999-2002 (PDF), accessed May 11, 2006
^ CIBA cited as one of the best by Education Department, Journal Inquirer, November 16, 2006. "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores over several years or show significant gains in student achievement. It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve."
^ Viers Mill School Wins Blue Ribbon; School Scored High on Statewide Test; The Washington Post. September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S. Education Department can bestow upon a school."
^ Top Public High Schools in New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly, September 2006
^ USATF News & Notes, June 5, 2002
^ Biography for Peter Ostrum, access November 13, 2006