Penns Grove High School

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Penns Grove High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Carneys Point Township and Penns Grove in Salem County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District. Students from Oldmans Township attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship. The school is located in Carneys Point Township.

Penns Grove High school is also home to the regional Academy of Chemical and Technological Engineering program that prepares students for engineering majors that they might seek when entering college. The Academy of Chemical and Technological Engineering operates in partnership with Rowan University, Salem Community College, DuPont and various other contributors.

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[edit] Athletics

Penns Grove High School is one of nineteen member schools in the Tri-County Conference, which is composed of schools whose enrollments vary greatly for grades 9-12. The smallest one, Clayton High School, has 249 students enrolled whereas the largest one, Williamstown, has 1,343 students.[1]

Penns Grove High School boasts many athletic victories in its recent years and years past, including the Tri-County Diamond Division Championship for Cross Country in 2006 and 2007[2], the South Jersey Group One Championship for Outdoor Track in 2007, and a number of relays won by the Outdoor Track team.

In 1986, the boys' track team set the New Jersey state record for most consecutive dual meet wins with 117[citation needed]. That same year, the track team not only went 10-0 in its dual meets but won every relay meet entered, won the Salem County Meet (10th straight), Tri-County Conference Meet (10th straight), South Jersey Sectional Group 1 meet (10th straight) and its second (the first was a Group II title in 1984) State Group Title in 3 years. The indoor track team that year also won the State Group 1 Relay Meet and Individual Meet[citation needed].

[edit] Marching Band

The school's marching band was Tournament of Bands Chapter One Champions in 1973-1975, 1977 and 1979 (Group 1). The marching band was Atlantic Coast Champion in Group 1 (1975, 1977 and 1979) and Atlantic Coast Champion in Group 2 in 1976.[3] The band also won the Cavalcade of Bands Group 1 Open Championship in 2006. [4]

[edit] Administration

  • Dr. Paul T. Rufino - Principal

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] References

  1. ^ NJSIAA 2007-08 General Group Classification. Accessed July 31, 2007.
  2. ^ S. Jersey Scoreboard, Philly.com, October 10, 2007. Accessed October 24, 2007. "(1, Robert Konopka, PG, 17:55; Penns Grove clinched Tri-County Diamond Division.)"
  3. ^ Tournament of Bands - Chapter One History, Tournament of Bands. Accessed July 5, 2007.
  4. ^ champions
  5. ^ 1999 Hall of Fame Inductees, Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey. Accessed February 4, 2007.
  6. ^ Petersen, Melofy. "Bruce Willis Drops Project, Leaving Town More Troubled", The New York Times, May 9, 1997. Accessed December 2, 2007. "Mr. Willis grew up in Carneys Point, attended Penns Grove High School and even worked in one of the Du Pont factories before he found fame on the television series Moonlighting and through his Die Hard films."
  7. ^ IMDB - Bruce Willis Awards list. Accessed December 27, 2007.

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