Sayreville War Memorial High School

Sayreville War Memorial High School
Address
820 Washington Road
Parlin, NJ, 08859
United States
Information
Type Public high school
Established 1939 (orig. location)
1962 (curr. location)[1]
School district Sayreville Public Schools
Superintendent Richard Labbe
Principal James Brown
Vice Principals Eric Glock-Molloy
Richard K. Gluchowski
Megan Romero
Faculty 127.7 (on FTE basis)[2]
Grades 9 to 12
Enrollment 1,731[2] (as of 2012–13)
Student to teacher ratio 13.56:1[2]
Color(s) Blue and Gray         
Team name Bombers
Yearbook Quo Vadis
Website www.sayrevillehigh.net

Sayreville War Memorial High School (SWMHS) is a four-year community public high school located in the Parlin section of Sayreville, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Sayreville Public Schools district. The school colors are blue and gray, and the sports teams are the Sayreville Bombers, recalling the town's World War I ammunition plants and many World War II veterans.

As of the 2012–13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,731 students and 127.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.56:1. There were 407 students (23.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 222 (12.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 163rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.[3] The school had been ranked 241st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 232nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[4] The magazine ranked the school 213th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[5] The school was ranked 217th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[6]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school 222nd out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 1 position 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).[7]

Athletics

The SWMHS Bombers compete in the Greater Middlesex Conference, made up of public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County area and operating under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[8] With 1,290 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014–15 school year as Central Jersey, Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,083 to 2,230 students in that grade range.[9] Sports consist of tennis, bowling, softball, field hockey, soccer, basketball, swimming, football, cross country, track and field, baseball and wrestling.

The football team won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 1997 and the Group IV title in 2010, 2011 and 2012.[10][11] Prior to the creation of the playoff system, the team enjoyed perfect seasons in 1946 and 1949.[12]

Hazing allegations

On October 6, 2014, Sayreville's school superintendent Richard Labbe, himself a former assistant football coach at SWMHS, canceled the remainder of the high school's 2014 football season, because of a criminal investigation into allegations of serious hazing among members of the team. The school suspended seven students after county prosecutors charged them with crimes including sexual assault of their younger teammates, in a case that received widespread media attention.[13][14][15][16] The athletic director, the head football coach and his four assistant coaches were also suspended, though not charged with crimes. The assistant coaches were soon reinstated at the high school, but the athletic director resigned and the head coach was transferred to an elementary school.[17][18] As of February 2015, the students' cases were still pending in Middlesex County Family Court.[19] As of April 2015, the seven students were still suspended from school.[20]

Clubs and activities

  • Co-op
  • Costume Crew
  • Cued Speech Club
  • DECA
  • Downhill Club
  • Echo Lites (newspaper)
  • EDGE
  • eSports Team
  • FBLA
  • Film and Television Society
  • Fishing Club
  • French Club
  • French Honor Society
  • History Club
  • Improv Troupe
  • Interact Club
  • International Society
  • Japanese Club
  • Jazz Band
  • Knitting Club
  • Library Council
  • Makeup Crew
  • Marching Band
  • Math Club
  • Mu Alpha Theta (Math Honor)
  • Muslim Society
  • National Honor Society
  • Odyssey of the Mind
  • Perpetual Motion Dance Club
  • Platinum Soundz step squad
  • Quo Vadis (yearbook)
  • Red Cross Club
  • SADD
  • Sayreville Choir
  • Sayreville Singers
  • Science Rules Club
  • Spanish Honor Society
  • Stage, Sound and Light Crews
  • STEAD
  • Student Council
  • Teen Institute (TIGS/LMTI)
  • Theater Society
  • Vox Humana
  • Winter Guard

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:[21]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ Sayreville Historical Society, ed. (2001). Sayreville. Arcadia Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 0738504904. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 School Data for Sayreville War Memorial High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 14, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  7. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009–2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed January 1, 2012.
  8. ↑ League Memberships — 2014–2015, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ 2014–2015 Public Schools Group Classification: ShopRite Cup–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for Central Jersey, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of July 8, 2014. Accessed October 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Sayreville Football Team Preview". MaxPreps.com. Retrieved October 9, 2014.
  11. ↑ "NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions" (PDF). NJSIAA. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
  12. ↑ Haley, John (November 15, 2012). "Unbeaten Sayreville chasing history". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
  13. ↑ Kaplan, Emily; Hanlon, Greg (October 7, 2014). "Football-centric town of Sayreville divided by lewd hazing allegations". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  14. ↑ High School Sports (October 10, 2014). "Seven Sayreville (N.J.) football players facing charges in hazing scandal". USA Today. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
  15. ↑ Ansari, Azadeh (October 11, 2014). "Seven teens charged in Sayreville High School assaults". CNN. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  16. ↑ Stanmyre, Matthew; Coleman, Vernal (December 28, 2014). "Voices from the locker room: Inside the Sayreville football scandal". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
  17. ↑ Coleman, Vernal (January 6, 2015). "Sayreville football to return in 2015, says district superintendent". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  18. ↑ Coleman, Vernal (February 24, 2015). "Former Sayreville head football George Najjar retains teaching position following hazing scandal". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  19. ↑ Epstein, Sue; Amaral, Brian (February 17, 2015). "Sayreville hazing case to be closed to public despite media's efforts". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  20. ↑ Coleman, Vernal (April 28, 2015). "Sayreville hazing suspect may file $2M lawsuit". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  21. ↑ Administration, Sayreville War Memorial High School. Accessed June 13, 2014.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 SWMHS Hall of Fame, Sayreville War Memorial High School. Accessed October 11, 2014.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Becker, Arielle Levin. "Graduated in Borough: Sayreville honors 5 in H.S. hall of fame", Home News Tribune, May 21, 2005. Accessed October 13, 2014. "After graduating from high school in 1970, inductee Barry T. Albin went on to earn a law degree, serving as an assistant prosecutor, president of the New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and, since 2002, an associate justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court.... Rhonda Rompola a 1978 graduate won two national basketball championships while attending Old Dominion University."
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Peters, Jeremy W. "Politicians of All Stripes Join the Line for Bon Jovi", The New York Times, December 16, 2007. Accessed September 20, 2011. "“Who would have thought?” said John S. Wisniewski, a Democratic assemblyman who graduated from Sayreville War Memorial High School with Mr. Bon Jovi. “I’m probably one of the few people in my graduating class who was involved in politics then and involved in politics now. And most of my friends looked at me like I had two heads.”"
  25. ↑ Acker, Michael (March 23, 2006). "Bon Jovi pays surprise visit to his old school". The Suburban. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Acker, Michael (April 13, 2006). "Inductees include boro officials, judge, diver". The Suburban. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  27. ↑ Staff. "Sayreville Native Stars In Hallmark Channel Film", News Record, November 7, 2008. Accessed September 20, 2011. "Evigan, who was recently inducted into the Sayreville War Memorial High School Alumni Hall of Fame for his contributions to the arts, began his career as something of a teen idol, and starred in the original Broadway casts of Jesus Christ Superstar and Grease."
  28. ↑ Beckerman, Jim. "It Was Slow Going at the Quick Stop: 'Clerks' Stars Kept Waiting", The Record (New Jersey), November 4, 1994. "A 20-year Sayreville resident, she plays Veronica, girlfriend of the hapless clerk Dante (O'Halloran).... A graduate of Sayreville High School and a friend of O'Halloran's for several years, Ghigliotti has acted opposite him in theater productions of "Wait Until Dark" and the off-off Broadway production "Sabona."
  29. ↑ Granieri, Laurie. "Sayreville native Dule Hill gears up for show's new season", Home News Tribune, August 7, 2009. Accessed October 13, 2014. "The biggest challenge for me is not making Gus too nerdy or too cool. Because Gus is a nerd, says Hill, 34, who grew up in Sayreville and is a 1993 graduate of Sayreville War Memorial High School."
  30. ↑ Slaughter, Sam. "Video-game nirvana: Sayreville man’s passion for gaming systems yields two books, film in the making", Sentinel, November 25, 2010. Accessed September 20, 2011. "Loguidice, a graduate of Sayreville War Memorial High School, has since spent his life collecting and playing video games."
  31. ↑ "Ed Thalmann, M.D., Assistant Medical Director at DAN, Dies". Divers Alert Network. July 26, 2004. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  32. ↑ Burkard, Tom (April 20, 2002). "Yearbook—Sayreville 1962" (PDF). The South Amboy – Sayreville Times. Retrieved October 11, 2014.

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