Timber Creek Regional High School

This article is about the high school in New Jersey. For the high school in Florida, see Timber Creek High School. For the high school in Texas, see Keller Independent School District.
Timber Creek Regional High School
Location
501 Jarvis Road
Erial, NJ 08081
Information
Type Public high school
Established 2001
Principal Mae Robinson
Vice Principals Donnetta Beatty (9th grade)
Robert DiMaulo, Jr. (10th grade)
Garry Saunders (11th grade)
Robert Milavsky (12th grade)
Faculty 94.7 (on FTE basis)[1]
Enrollment 1,424[1] (as of 2012-13)
Student to teacher ratio 15.04:1[1]
Color(s)      Dark blue
     Silver
     White
Athletics conference Olympic Conference
Team name Chargers

Timber Creek Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades located in the Erial section in southern Gloucester Township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as one of the three secondary schools of the Black Horse Pike Regional School District. The school opened in 2001 to relieve overcrowding conditions at Highland and Triton High Schools.

Timber Creek High School sits on 278,000 square feet (25,800 m2) and contains 32 academic classrooms, 12 laboratory classrooms, a music suite, two art classrooms, an industrial technology lab and a design-drafting classroom. In the high school itself there is an auditorium which seats 1,000 people, a cafeteria, and a library-media center which contains a television studio. The whole building is fully air-conditioned.

It serves students from surrounding neighborhoods, such as Wye Oak Village, Senator Walk, Cobblestone Farms, Mayfair Woods, Mayfair Meadows, Wood's Edge, Country Oaks, Forest Woods, Forest Ridge, Mulberry Station, Raintree, Dunleigh, Stonebridge Run, Westbury, Spring Valley, Meadowbrook, Revere Run I & II, Brittany Woods, Asten Woods, Wood Hill, King's Gate, Terrestria, Courts at Stonebridge Run, Sturbridge Oaks, and numerous other neighborhoods.

As of the 2012-13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,424 students and 94.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.04:1. There were 300 students (21.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 84 (5.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 182nd-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.[2] The school had been ranked 246th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 219th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[3] The magazine ranked the school 240th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[4] The school was ranked 250th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[5] Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 244th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 9 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).[6]

Athletics

The Timber Creek Regional High School Chargers participate in the Olympic Conference, which consists of public and private high schools located in Burlington County and Camden County, and operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[7] With 1,021 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014-15 school year as South Jersey, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 772 to 1,082 students in that grade range.[8]

The wrestling team won their first South Jersey, Group III title in 2008, defeating 2nd-seeded Hammonton High School in a close battle coming down to the last match making it 30-29.[9]

The boys' basketball team won their first South Jersey, Group III title in 2008, defeating the top-seeded Hammonton High School 58-50 in the tournament final.[10][11]

The boys baseball team won its first South Jersey Group III Title, in 2008, defeating Clearview Regional High School by a score of 9-3 to take the title game.[12][13]

The boys track and field team won Olympic Conference, South Jersey Group III championships and New Jersey Group III state championships from 2008 to 2011.[14] In the 2008-09 winter track season the 4x4 relay team of Derrick Henry, Allen Jackson, Saliym Starkey and Damiere Byrd ran an indoor record with the time of 3:21. In the 55, Damiere Byrd was named the fastest in Group III, ran the fastest time in the state, the fastest for a sophomore and a time that ranked eighth nationally, and he won the Group II titles in the 100, 200 and 400 meters in 2010.[14]

Extracurricular activities

Timber Creek's Choir and Chorale and Voices of Jazz Vocal Groups have been invited and volunteered to sing for many occasions to service the community.

The drama program has shown play productions like Les Misérables, The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners High School, The Cinderella Complex, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Rebel Without a Cause as well as its musicals, a revue, Once Upon a Mattress, Little Shop of Horrors, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wiz, Damn Yankees, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, "Grease" and the most recent performance of Hairspray (musical) for the 2010-11 school year.

The Timber Creek Chargers Marching Band were Top 10 Atlantic Coast Championship finalists in 2006.[15] The band finished in second place at the 2007 United States Scholastic Band Association National Championships, competing as a Group I band at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland on November 16, 2007, with a score of 94.225.[16] In 2011, they won first place in Group 2A at the Tournament of Bands South Jersey Chapter Championships with a score of 93.05 at Clearview Regional High School.[17]

The Timber Creek Indoor Percussion Ensemble has been finalists in the Winter Guard International World Championships in 2009 and 2011. In 2010, the ensemble performed in the Percussion Scholastic A Class, winning Scholastic A Class Finals with a score of 96.713.[18]

The Theatre Arts classes also perform at various school-orientated performances for their fellow students. As of June 2007, Timber Creek has a National Art Honor Society chapter.

Timber Creek also provides numerous opportunities for students to get involved with after school. These include the French Club, Spanish Club, Cooking, Band, in addition to numerous other activities.

Timber Creek has a chapter of the National Honor Society to recognize students at the school, inducting juniors and seniors who meet the Honor Society ideals of character, scholarship, leadership, and service.[19]

Administrators

Core members of the school's administration are:[20]

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 School Data for Timber Creek Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 2, 2012.
  4. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed March 19, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  6. ↑ New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 12, 2012.
  7. ↑ League Memberships – 2014-2015, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 24, 2014.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Staff. "S. Jersey Boys: Timber Creek tops Hammonton for mat crown", The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 16, 2008. Accessed June 5, 2011. "Trailing Hammonton by 29-25 with one bout left in the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 3 final, visiting Timber Creek managed to tie the match when Lowry decisioned Alex Zeborowski. And by virtue of having two pins to Hammonton's one, the Chargers took the meet..."
  10. ↑ Ryan, Thomas. "Timber Creek boys beat Hammonton", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 5, 2008. "The Chargers defeated top-seeded Hammonton, 58-50, yesterday for their first South Jersey Group 3 title."
  11. ↑ 2008 Boys Basketball - South, Group III, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed August 10, 2008.
  12. ↑ Staff. "Timber Creek 9, Clearview 3", The Star-Ledger, May 30, 2008. Accessed February 12, 2012. "J.J. Williams and Nate Floyd keyed a strong performance at the plate that powered Timber Creek to a 9-3 decision over Clearview and its first NJSIAA/Star-Ledger South Jersey, Group 3 title yesterday in Erial."
  13. ↑ 2008 Baseball Tournament - South, Group III, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed August 10, 2008.
  14. 1 2 Marrella, Richard J. "Five Things You Need to Know About ... Timber Creek Track and Field: Spring has sprung, and out of the starting blocks comes Timber Creek's highly rated track program", GloucesterTownshipPatch, April 8, 2011. Accessed February 12, 2012. "Timber Creek's boys' track team has had tremendous success in recent years, having been the Olympic Conference champions, South Jersey Group 3 champions and the New Jersey State Group 3 Champions for the last three years (2008, 2009, 2010)."
  15. ↑ 11-12-2006: 2006 Atlantic Coast Championships Groups 1 & 3 at Lackawanna County Stadium, Moosic, PA, Tournament of Bands. Accessed July 8, 2013.
  16. ↑ Group I, M&T Bank Stadium, November 16, 2007, United States Scholastic Band Association. For the 2008-09 school year, the band placed first in Group 2 with a score of 91 at the USSBA 20th Anniversary show and placed 7th overall. Accessed November 18, 2007.
  17. ↑ Littel, Bryan. "WDHS Marching Band Makes It Six Straight; West Deptford won Chapter 1 Sunday night, and heads to the Atlantic Coast Championships as the top seed in Group 3 Open.", West Deptford Patch, October 28, 2011. Accessed July 13, 2015.
  18. ↑ 2010 Percussion A Class Finals - Results , Winter Guard International, April 16, 2010. Accessed October 23, 2011.
  19. ↑ http://www.bhprsd.org/Domain/272 National Honor Society. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  20. ↑ Administration, Timber Creek Regional High School. Accessed July 13, 2015.
  21. ↑ Kyle Hines biography - UNCG Athletics. Accessed January 8, 2008.
  22. ↑ UNCG to retire Kyle Hines' No. 42 at the end of season - UNCG Athletics. Accessed January 8, 2008.
  23. ↑ Hines named to CHN's Pre-season Mid-Major All-American First Team. "Hines, a 6-6, 230 lb (100 kg). senior from Sicklerville, NJ and a product of Timber Creek HS, was the school's first-ever Conference Player of the Year and AP All-America Honorable Mention selection last season." Accessed January 8, 2008.
  24. ↑ Tyler Hines, UMES bio. Accessed September 12, 2014.

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