David Brearley High School

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Location
David Brearley High School
401 Monroe Avenue Kenilworth, NJ 07033
Information
School district	Kenilworth Public Schools
Principal	Mr. Charles Cappello
Enrollment	717 (as of 2005-06)^[1]
Faculty	55.3 (on FTE basis)^[1]
Student:teacher ratio	13.0^[1]
Type	Public high school
Grades	9 - 12
Athletics conference	Mountain Valley Conference
Information	908-931-9696
Homepage	School website

David Brearley High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Kenilworth in Union County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Kenilworth Public Schools. The school is named for David Brearly, a signer of the United States Constitution.

David Brearley High School is one of only 16 schools / school districts statewide participating in New Jersey's Interdistrict Public School Choice Program.^[2]

Students from Winfield Township attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Winfield Township School District.^[3]

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 717 students and 55.3 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis, for a student-teacher ratio of 13.0.^[1]

1 Curriculum and programs
2 Athletics
3 Noted alumni
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Curriculum and programs

The school system participates in New Jersey's Interdistrict Public School Choice Program at the David Brearley Middle / High School in grades 7-10.^[4] Each school year, slots are made available for seventh through tenth grades. A lottery will be used to select attendees if there are more applicants than available slots. Prospective Choice participants must be residents of Union County eligible for placement in grades 7-10 who were enrolled in a public school during the full year prior to entry to the Kenilworth Public Schools.^[5]

In 2001, students from David Brearley High School and Hillside High School collaborated to develop literary and art projects about bigotry presented at an exhibit, "Making Connections: Two Culturally Diverse Schools Address Prejudice and Hatred by Studying the Holocaust Together." The exhibit was presented at Kean University, and was viewed together with local Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.^[6]

[edit] Athletics

David Brearley High School competes in the Mountain Valley Conference, a New Jersey high school sports association under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). The conference consists of twenty public and parochial high schools covering Union County and Essex County in northern New Jersey.

The football team defeated Verona High School 21-20 on December 2, 2006, at Giants Stadium to win the North Jersey Section 2 Group 1 State Title.^[7]

The wrestling team, operated in combination with Jonathan Dayton High School, won the 2006 and2007 Central Jersey Group I Sectional Title defeating Roselle Park High School 46-10.^[8] The team was a finalist in the Group I state championship before losing to Paulsboro High School at the Ritacco Center in Toms River.^[9] In 2008, the wrestling team defeated South Plainfield High School for the North 2 Group 2 Sectional Title.^{[citation needed]} They were defeated by Long Branch High School by a score of 30-27 in the Group 2 state final.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Noted alumni

Tony Siragusa, Indianapolis Colts and Baltimore Ravens defensive tackle, and 'on-the-field' reporter for FOX NFL, was born and raised in Kenilworth and starred in football and wrestling for David Brearley High School.^[10]