Lenape Valley Regional High School

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Lenape Valley Regional High School
Motto
Established
Type Public
Head Douglas deMarrais
Location Stanhope, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States
Campus
Enrollment 852
Colors RED, WHITE & BLUE
Homepage http://www.lvhs.org/webfiles/index.html/


Lenape Valley Regional High School is a four-year regional public high school and school district in New Jersey serving approximately 850 students from two municipalities in Sussex County and one in Morris County.

The communities served by the high school are Byram Township and Stanhope Borough in Sussex and Netcong Borough in Morris County. The school is located in Stanhope.

The school has 175 students in 9th grade, 197 students in 10th grade, 191 students in 11th grade, 175 students in 12th grade and 114 students who are ungraded. With 852 students and 63.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), the school has a Student / Teacher Ratio of 13.4.

Lenape Valley also holds the distinction of being one of the few schools in New Jersey to have a planetarium.

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[edit] Athletics

The Lenape Valley Regional High School Patriots participate in the eleven-member Sussex County Interscholastic League. The school is categorized by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) as North I, Group II.

The patriots wrestling team in the 2005-2006 season was 21-7, ranked #16 in New jersey, and won district 2.

The Patriots made it to the 2004-05 New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) Group II Section I state championship at Giants Stadium, falling in double overtime to Lakeland Regional High School Lancers by a score of 17-14.[1]

[edit] Extra Curricular Activities

Lenape Valley Regional High School offers a selection of sports, including Football (both American Football and Soccer), Hockey, Tennis, Field Hockey and Cheerleading. [2]. The school also offers Business activities, Creative Writing based courses and Music courses, including Choirs and Bands. [3]

[edit] Special Education

The school itself contains 17 special education teachers [4]. The school offers support to the visually, hearing and physically imapired, through special classes and extra-curricular help. [5]. The school also does work with speech therapy and development.

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