| Burlington Township High School | |
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| Location | |
| 610 Fountain Avenue Burlington, NJ 08016 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1964 |
| School district | Burlington Township School District |
| Principal | Marie Phillips |
| Vice principal | Neal Canavan Christopher Ilconich (9th grade) Naomi Threadgill |
| Faculty | 83 (on FTE basis)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,245 (as of 2009-10)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 15.00[1] |
| Color(s) | Old Gold , Black and White |
| Athletics conference | Burlington County Scholastic League |
| Team name | Falcons |
| Rival | Florence Twp. Memorial HS, Bordentown Regional HS, Northern Burlington Regional, Burlington City HS, Willingboro HS, Holy Cross HS, Delran HS |
| Website | burltwpsch.org/schools/hs/ |
Burlington Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Burlington Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Burlington Township School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1971.[2]
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,245 students and 83 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.00.[1]
The school was the 153rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 140th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[3] The school was ranked 138th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[4]
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The Burlington Township High School Falcons compete in the Burlington County Scholastic League, which includes public and non-public high schools in the Burlington County area, operating under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.[5] This school, during the first seven years of competition in the Burlington County League, was considered a "Group I" then "Group II" category. Township and student population have drastically increased within the past decade and now the school competes in a Group III category, exceeding that of next door neighboring township, Willingboro.
The 2010-11 boys basketball team won the Central Jersey Group III Sectional championship with a 70-64 win over Colts Neck High School, overcoming a deficit of 13 points in the fourth quarter.[6] The 2011 sectional title was the program's tenth overall and its first since 1992. All of its previous championships - including state titles in 1985, 1987 and 1992 - had come while the school was categorized as Group I.[7]
The football team won the South Jersey Group I state sectional championships in 1976 and 1977.[8] The BTHS football team had won two consecutive Patriot Division titles and were moved up to the Liberty Division, where they pulled through the 2006-07 season with a 1-7 record. The first two games of the 06-07 season were forfeited due to an ineligible running back, overturning two games the team had won.[9]
The 2011 Boys Soccer Team won the BCSL Liberty Division for the first time is school history having a 7-1-2 record, the title was also the first in the Boys soccer programs history.
The BTHS boys bowling team won the division championship with an 11-1 division record, and went 14-5 overall.
Main rivals are Florence Township Memorial High School, Holy Cross High School and Burlington City High School.
On March 22, 2007, Burlington Township High School scheduled a simulated Columbine-like school shooting, lockdown and evacuation where Burlington Township police detectives posed as Christian fundamentalists who became angry (when a student was expelled for praying before class) and begin shooting students in order to "seek justice".[10] The World Net Daily website ran the story on April 3, 2007. and quoted Bob Pawson, a spokesman of Scriptures In School, as characterizing the simulation as a "grotesque scenario saturated with Christian-bashing prejudice and bigotry; a scenario which could never possibly occur."
In response to the news coverage, the Burlington Township School District issued an official statement saying:
Core members of the school's administration include:[12]
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