| Somerville High School | |
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| 222 Davenport Street Somerville, NJ 08876 United States |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | c. 1909 |
| Principal | Corey Jones |
| Asst. Principal | Scott Hade |
| Faculty | 77 (on FTE basis)[1] |
| Enrollment | 1,198 (as of 2009-10)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 15.56[1] |
| Color(s) | Orange and Black |
| Athletics conference | Skyland Conference |
| Website | Somerville High School |
Somerville High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school of the Somerville Public Schools serving students from Somerville and Branchburg Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
Students from Branchburg Township attend Somerville High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Branchburg Township School District.[2]
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,198 students and 77 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.56.[1]
Advanced Placement (AP) courses (such as AP United States Government and Politics) and the Senior Options Program at Raritan Valley Community College allow students the opportunity to earn college credits while attending high school. During the 2004-05 school year, students enrolled in thirteen AP courses. Offerings have included AP Biology, AP Calculus (AB/BC), AP Chemistry, AP English Literature and Composition, AP French Language, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Comparative Government and Politics, AP Music Theory, AP Physics, AP Spanish Language and AP United States History.
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The school was the 77th-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 73rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.[3]
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 54th in New Jersey and 1,635th nationwide.[4]
Somerville High School competes in the Skyland Conference, which is made up of public and parochial high schools covering Hunterdon County, Somerset County and Warren County in west central New Jersey, operating under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[5]
The football team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional championships in 1976-1977, 1979, 1983, 1985-1986 and in 1994.[6]
The boys soccer team won the 2006-07 Central Jersey, Group II state sectional championship with a 3-1 win over Raritan High School in the tournament final.[7] In 2007, the boys soccer team repeated as sectional champion with a 2-0 win over Shore Regional High School in the tournament final.[8]
The girls soccer team defeated Shore Regional High School 3-1 to win the 2006 Central, Group II sectional title.[9]
The Boys Track team has been the most dominant sport in the school during the past decade. Going into the 2009 spring season, the team had won 68 dual meets in a row. They have been the Central Jersey Group II sectional champions the past eight years, and have won six Group II State Championships in that period.
Somerville's robotics team is Team 102, The Gearheads. Team102 participates in the New Jersey and Connecticut FIRST Regionals. Team 102 has won
Mid-Atlantic Regional Best Offensive Round, Pennsylvania Robotics Challenge Second Place,
National Finalists, Participated In The Pennsylvania Robotics Challenge, Participate In Havoc In The Hills,
Brunswick Eruption Refs Favorite Award, BattleCry Best Autonomous,
Long Island General Motors Industrial Design Award Winners, Long Island Regional Semi-Finalist, Monty Madness Quarter-Finalists, Brunswick Eruption Champions,
Long Island Regional Winners, SPBLI Regional Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship Award, N.J. Regional Judge’s Award,
Motorola Quality Award at the Long Island Regional, Semi-finalists in the Newton Division at the Finals in Atlanta, Georgia.
Connecticut Regional Winner, New Jersey Regional Gracious Professionalism Award
The team has been to Atlanta in 2010 and other years prior. For more information go to http://www.team102.org
Core members of the school's administration are:[10]
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