Sterling High School (New Jersey)

Sterling High School
Type and location
Grades 9-12
Address 501 South Warwick Road
Somerdale, NJ 08083
District information
Superintendent Mark Napoleon
Business administrator Betty Giambrone
Schools 1
Students and staff
Enrollment 906 (as of 2012-13)[1]
Faculty 72.0 FTEs
Student-teacher ratio 12.58:1
Other information
District Factor Group CD
Website http://www.sterling.k12.nj.us
Ind. Per Pupil District
Spending 		Rank
(*) 		9-12
Average		 %± vs.
Average
1ATotal Spending$18,92211$18,8910.2%
1Budgetary Cost15,3901915,592-1.3%
2Classroom Instruction8,613198,807-2.2%
6Support Services2,085162,294-9.1%
8Administrative Cost1,479141,592-7.1%
10Operations & Maintenance2,108291,9547.9%
13Extracurricular Activities1,1073787326.8%
16Median Teacher Salary62,1001171,726
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of 9-12 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=47
Sterling High School
Location
501 South Warwick Road
New Jersey Somerdale, NJ 08083
Information
Type Public high school
Principal Mark Napoleon
Vice principal Robynn Considine
Sean Redman
Color(s)      Royal Blue
     Silver
Athletics conference Colonial Conference
Team name Silver Knights

Sterling High School is a comprehensive regional public high school and school district serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from five communities in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students from Magnolia, Somerdale, Stratford, along with students from Hi-Nella and Laurel Springs who attend as part of sending/receiving relationships.[3][4] The school is located in Somerdale.

Sterling High School has been approved by the New Jersey Department of Education (2000) and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1964.[5]

As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 906 students and 72.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.58:1. There were 176 students (19.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 61 (6.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]"

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[6]

Board of education

The district's board of education is made up of nine members, elected to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year. Two members are elected from Somerdale, three from Magnolia and four from Stratford. The Laurel Springs district appoints a representative to serve on the Sterling board of education.[4]

Awards, recognition and honors

The school was the 234th-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.[7] The school had been ranked 266th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 231st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[8] The magazine ranked the school 225th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[9] The school was ranked 228th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[10] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 240th out of 367 public high schools statewide in its 2009-10 rankings 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).[11]

Curriculum

Advanced Placement (AP) courses are offered in AP English Literature, AP United States History, AP Calculus, and AP Biology. Honors courses are offered in Algebra I, Geometry, Pre Calculus, Spanish V, Calculus, and Physics. High School Plus credit with Camden County College is offered in History, Spanish, French, Biology, Software Systems, Latin, and World Civilizations. A variety of languages are offered including: Spanish, Latin, French, and Italian II.

Athletics

Sterling High School is a member school in the Colonial Conference, which is composed of small schools whose enrollments generally do not exceed between 750-800 students for grades 9-12 and operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[12] With 664 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014-15 school year as South Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 748 students in that grade range.[13]

Administration

Core members of the school's administration include:[27][28]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 School Data for Sterling High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 24, 2015.
  2. ↑ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ Sterling High School 2014 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 24, 2015. "Sterling High School District is a regional district serving Hi Nella, Laurel Springs, Magnolia, Somerdale and Stratford."
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2011, Sterling High School District. Accessed December 8, 2014. "The purpose of the School District is to provide educational services for resident students in grades 9 through 12 that reside in the Borough's of Magnolia, Somerdale and Stratford. In addition, the School District provides educational services for students in grades 9 through 12 received, on a tuition basis, from the Laurel Springs School District and the Hi-Nella School District."
  5. ↑ Sterling High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. Accessed June 26, 2011.
  6. ↑ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 24, 2014.
  7. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  8. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 11, 2012.
  9. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed June 26, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  11. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed December 29, 2011.
  12. ↑ League Memberships – 2014-2015, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 24, 2014.
  13. ↑ 2014-2015 Public Schools Group Classification: ShopRite Cup–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for South Jersey, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of July 8, 2014. Accessed November 24, 2014.
  14. ↑ 2005 Girls Basketball - Tournament of Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed August 5, 2007.
  15. ↑ A compendium of epic battles over the years - Philly.com. "2001: For the first time in history, a South Jersey team won the Tournament of Champions girls' basketball title. Group 2 state champ Sterling, seeded fourth, upset third-seeded and Group 4 state champ Columbia, 48-40, to bring home the crown. Jessica Copskey scored 34 points to help give retiring coach Bill Ulrich a going-away present." Accessed February 17, 2008.
  16. ↑ Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 29, 2011.
  17. ↑ Ostrum, Gus. "S. Jersey Playoffs A Hit From The Start", The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 17, 1989. Accessed December 29, 2011. "It now is 15 years since Sterling and Brick Township won the first South Jersey sectional football championships to be decided on the playing field. Sterling topped Woodrow Wilson, 15-12, on Dec. 7, 1974, to win the South Jersey Group 3 title before 5,000 fans at Atlantic City Convention Hall and a statewide television audience."
  18. ↑ History of Football Games inside the Atlantic City Convention Hall. Accessed December 29, 2011.
  19. ↑ 2007 Softball - South, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed June 11, 2007.
  20. ↑ Staff. "Sterling gets 16 hits to roll past Gateway, The tenth seed upset the No. 4 seed, 11-2, and now moves on to the state semifinals.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 2, 2007. Accessed June 26, 2011. "To prepare for facing Gateway's hard-throwing Nick Alloway in yesterday's South Jersey Group 2 baseball final, Sterling had one of its former pitchers, Drew Slickmeyer, throw batting practice Thursday."
  21. ↑ Staff. "Sterling takes second softball crown", The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 8, 2008. Accessed June 26, 2011. "After two consecutive postseason comeback wins, Sterling rode the arm of righthander Sammi Giambri to yesterday's 1-0 win over Kittatinny for the state Group 2 softball championship at Toms River East."
  22. ↑ Livingston, John Earle. "Sterling ends Point Boro's dreams of a title", Asbury Park Press, February 18, 2000. Accessed June 26, 2011. "Last night, before Point Boro's South Jersey Group II final at defending champion Sterling, Hoffmaster declared this Panther wrestling team to be harder-working than any other Point Boro team."
  23. ↑ Iezzi, Bill. "A 3-time champion lends his expertise: Mark Manchio has been an inspiration to Haddonfield.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 2011. Accessed June 26, 2011. "But former Sterling great Mark Manchio, 29, one of only three South Jersey wrestlers to win triple crowns - the others were Highland's Joe Melchiore and Absegami's Labe Black - thinks he is fortunate to be on the staff at Haddonfield."
  24. ↑ State Champion Wrestlers, New Jersey Wrestling. Accessed October 27, 2011.
  25. ↑ Staff. "South Jersey pins down a record nine titles", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2002. Accessed October 27, 2011. "Paulsboro's Tom Curl and Cherry Hill West's Ryan Cunningham successfully defended their titles, and Sterling's Ivan Wiggins and Camden Catholic's Bob Stinson avenged heart-breaking losses to claim their first titles..."
  26. ↑ Carchidi, Sam. "DiPatri got the most out of his Sterling ballclub", The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 13, 2004. Accessed June 26, 2011. "In 2003, his first season as Sterling's coach, the Silver Knights went 25-4-1 and won the Joe Hartmann Diamond Classic crown for the second straight season."
  27. ↑ Staff Directory, Sterling High School. Accessed November 24, 2014.
  28. ↑ New Jersey School Directory for Camden County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 24, 2014.
  29. ↑ Sam Carchidi - Sterling H.S. Sportswriter - 2007, South Jersey Baseball Hall of Fame. Accessed June 26, 2011. "He has been covering South Jersey high school sports for nearly 35 years, starting while a student at Sterling High School. Carchidi also covered college and professional sports for The Inquirer and has authored 'Bill Campbell The Voice of Philadelphia Sports"
  30. ↑ Brooks-Irvine Memorial Football Club. Accessed April 12, 2008.
  31. ↑ Finally, Lee earns Big Ten recognition. "Members of the team, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, expected to attend include quarterback Todd Blackledge, tailback Curt Warner, wide receivers Kenny Jackson and Gregg Garrity, linebacker Scott Radecic and team captains Walker Lee Ashley and Ken Kelley." Accessed February 11, 2009.

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