Timber Creek Regional High School

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Location
Timber Creek Regional High School

501 Jarvis Rd Erial, NJ 08081
Information
Principal	Mae Robinson
Vice principal	Robert Milavsky (9th) Elizabeth Petitte (10th) Robert Murphy (11th) Garry Saunders (12th)
Enrollment	1,463 (as of 2005-06)^[1]
Faculty	90.8 (on FTE basis)^[1]
Student:teacher ratio	16.1^[1]
Type	Public high school
Athletics conference	Olympic Conference
Team name	Chargers
Established	2001
Information	856-232-9703

Timber Creek Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located on Jarvis Road in Erial, New Jersey, United States, in the southern section of Gloucester Township, as part of the Black Horse Pike Regional School District. The school was first opened in 2001 to relieve overcrowding conditions at Highland and Triton High Schools.

This school is state of the art. Timber Creek High School sits on 278,000 square feet and contains 32 academic classrooms, 12 laboratory classrooms, a music suite, 2 art classrooms, an industrial technology lab and a design-drafting classroom. In the high school itself there is a large auditorium which seats 1,000 people, a large cafeteria, and a Library/Media center which contains a television studio. The whole building is fully air-conditioned.

It serves students from surrounding neighborhoods, such as Wye Oak Village, Senator Walk, Cobblestone Farms, Mayfair Woods, Mayfair Meadows, Wood's Edge, Country Oaks, Forest Woods, Forest Ridge, Mulberry Station, Raintree, Dunleigh, Stonebridge Run, Westbury, Spring Valley, Meadowbrook, Revere Run I & II, Brittany Woods, Asten Woods, Wood Hill, King's Gate, Terrestria, Courts at Stonebridge Run, and numerous other neighborhoods.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,463 students and 90.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 16.1.^[1]

1 Administrators
2 Athletics
3 Extracurricular activities
4 Notable alumni
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Administrators

Core members of the school's administration are:^[2]

Mae Robinson - Principal
Robert Milavsky - Vice Principal, Grade 9
Elizabeth Petitte - Vice Principal, Grade 10
Robert Murphy - Vice Principal, Grade 11
Garry Saunders - Vice Principal, Grade 12

[edit] Athletics

The Timber Creek Regional High School Chargers participate in the Olympic Conference, which consists of public and private high schools located in Burlington County and Camden County.

The boys basketball team has won their first Group 3 title against Hammonton High School.^[3]

The Boys Baseball Team won its first South Jersey Group III Title, in 2008. ^[4]

[edit] Extracurricular activities

Timber Creek is most noted for its excellent performing arts groups.^{[citation needed]} Timber Creek's Choir and Chorale and Voices of Jazz Vocal Groups have been invited and volunteered to sing for many occasions to service the community.

The Timber Creek Chargers Marching Band were Top 10 Atlantic Coast Championship finalists in 2006. The drama program has shown play productions like Les Misérables, The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners High School, The Cinderella Complex, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Rebel Without A Cause as well as its musicals, a revue, Once Upon a Mattress, Little Shop of Horrors, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and with a recent performance of The Wiz for the 2006-2007 school year. The band finished in second place at the 2007 United States Scholastic Band Association National Championships, competing as a Group I band at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland on November 16, 2007, with a score of 94.225.^[5]

The Theatre Arts classes also perform at various school-orientated performances for their fellow students. In addition, as of June 2007, Timber Creek also has a National Art Honor Society chapter.

Timber Creek also provides numerous opportunities for students to get involved with after school. These include the French Club, Spanish Club, Cooking, Band, in addition to numerous other activities.