Hightstown High School

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Hightstown High School

Location
25 Leshin Lane Hightstown, NJ 08520
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	1965
School district	East Windsor Regional School District
Principal	Dennis M. Vinson, Jr.^[1]
Faculty	105.5 (on FTE basis)^[2]
Grades	9 - 12
Enrollment	1,346 (as of 2010-11)^[2]
Student to teacher ratio	12.76:1^[2]
Color(s)	Blue White
Athletics conference	Colonial Valley Conference
Team name	Rams
Publication	The Ram Page
Website	School website

Hightstown High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from three communities in Mercer County and Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the East Windsor Regional School District. Students come from East Windsor Township and Hightstown Borough, both in Mercer County. Students from Roosevelt Borough (a community in Monmouth County) attend the district's high schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship.^[3]

The school building opened during the 1965-66 school year. Additions to the original structure were completed in 1973, 1982 and 2005. The school is approved by the New Jersey Department of Education and is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.^[4]

Hightstown High School offers a wide range of courses. Included are Advanced Placement, honors, vocational and standard academic courses. The curriculum is broad in scope and flexible to meet general and individual needs. After meeting basic curricular proficiency standards, students may choose from the wide variety of elective courses that will meet their individual interests and needs.

As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,346 students and 105.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.76:1. There were 250 students (18.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 87 (6.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.^[2]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 161st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 180th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.^[5] The magazine ranked the school 175th in 2008 out of 316 schools.^[6] The school was ranked 119th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.^[7] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 225th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 4 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).^[8]

Athletics

The Hightstown High School Rams compete in the Colonial Valley Conference, which consists of public and private high schools located in Mercer County, Monmouth County and Middlesex County, New Jersey, under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).^[9]

Interscholastic sports include cross country, football, soccer, field hockey, cheerleading, wrestling, indoor track and field, basketball, swimming, ice hockey, baseball, softball, tennis, and lacrosse.

Extracurricular Activities

FIRST Robotics Team

Hightstown High School is also home to First Robotics Team #1089, Team Mercury. Since the team's inception in 2003, Team Mercury has received a number of awards, including the prestigious Chairman's Award in 2009. Team Mercury is sponsored by Credit Suisse, Comcast, and the East Windsor Board of Education.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration include:^[1]

Dennis M. Vinson, Jr. - Principal
Dr. Diana Chase - Assistant Principal
William Delaney - Assistant Principal
Robert Scott - Assistant Principal

Notable alumni

Melanie Balcomb, Head Womens Basketball Coach at Vanderbilt University.^[10]
Jim Barlow, two-time high school soccer All-American and current head soccer coach at Princeton University.^[11]
William R. Forstchen, (born 1950, class of 1968), author and historian.^{[citation needed]}
Hilly Kristal (1931–2007), owner and founder of CBGBs, graduated from Hightstown in 1949.^{[citation needed]}
Marlon LeBlanc, Head Men's Soccer Coach at West Virginia University.^[12]
Randal Pinkett (born 1971), Chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, Rhodes Scholar, the winner of the reality show, The Apprentice 4, attended and graduated from Hightstown High School.^[13]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Hightstown High School. Accessed September 30, 2013.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Data for Hightstown High, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 9, 2012.
↑ East Windsor Regional School District 2011 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 8, 2012. "The East Windsor Regional School District, located in central New Jersey at New Jersey Turnpike Exit 8, is a stable K-12 public school district serving the communities of the East Windsor Township and the Borough of Hightstown as well as Roosevelt Borough students’ grades 7 through 12."
↑ About Us, Hightstown high School. Accessed November 8, 2012.
↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed October 6, 2012.
↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 2, 2011.
↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed January 1, 2012.
↑ League Memberships – 2012-2013, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 27, 2012.
↑ HHS grad coaches team to Southeastern Conference title, Princeton Packet, March 16, 2007.
↑ Staff. "Six-Member Freshmen Class to Join Princeton Men's Soccer in 2006: Group includes players from Colorado, California.", CBS Sports, June 5, 2006. Accessed February 2, 2011. "Head coach Jim Barlow, in his 11th season in 2006, welcomes a group that includes players from six states, including California and Colorado. One will become the third member of his family to play for Barlow at Princeton, while another is a graduate of Hightstown High School, Barlow's alma mater."
↑ Men's Soccer Coaching Staff: Marlon LeBlanc - Head Coach, West Virginia Mountaineers. Accessed July 9, 2008. "A Hightstown High School four-year starter, the New Jersey native received All-State, All-Area, and All-County honors during his scholastic career."
↑ Cheslow, Jerry. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Hightstown; A Borough With Respect for Its Roots", The New York Times, February 6, 1994. Accessed February 2, 2011.

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Coordinates: 40°15′40″N 74°31′52″W / 40.261°N 74.531°W / 40.261; -74.531

v t e Public and Private High Schools of Mercer County, New Jersey

Public	Daylight/Twilight Ewing Hamilton East-Steinert Hamilton North-Nottingham Hamilton West-Hamilton Hightstown Hopewell Valley Lawrence Princeton Robbinsville Trenton Central Trenton West West Windsor-Plainsboro South

Private	Al-Bayaan/Islamic School of Trenton Hun Lawrenceville Lewis School Notre Dame Peddie Pennington Princeton Day Stuart Trenton Catholic

Atlantic Bergen Burlington Camden Cape May Cumberland Essex Gloucester Hudson Hunterdon Mercer Middlesex Monmouth Morris Ocean Passaic Salem Somerset Sussex Union Warren

v t e Colonial Valley Conference (NJSIAA)

Colonial Division	Hamilton Hightstown Lawrence Nottingham Steinert Trenton Central West Windsor-Plainsboro South

Valley Division	Allentown Ewing Hopewell Valley Central Notre Dame Princeton Robbinsville West Windsor-Plainsboro North

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