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Freehold High School (sometimes called Freehold Boro or Freehold Borough High School to distinguish it from Freehold Township High School
Freehold Township High School
Freehold Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located within Freehold Township, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District...

) is a four-year public high school
Public high school
A public high school is a secondary school in the United States of America that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues and administered exclusively by state and local officials. On the other hand, private schools are typically funded by tuition and private donations....

 located within Freehold Borough
Freehold Borough, New Jersey
Freehold Borough is a Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 10,976. It is the county seat of Monmouth County....

, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...

, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District
Freehold Regional High School District
The Freehold Regional High School District is a public regional school district serving students in grades 9-12 from eight communities in western Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The district, consisting of six high schools, is the largest regional high school district in the state of...

. The school serves students from Freehold Borough and from portions of Freehold Township
Freehold Township, New Jersey
Freehold Township is a Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 31,537. Freehold Township was first formed on October 31, 1693, and was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21,...

. Freehold High School is the home of the Medical Sciences Learning Center, the Computer Science Academy and the Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management Academy.

As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,376 students and 96 classroom teachers (on a FTE
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent is a way to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or a student's enrollment at an educational institution. An FTE of 1.0 means that the person is equivalent to a full-time worker, while an FTE of 0.5 signals that the worker is only half-time...

 basis, for a student-teacher ratio
Student-teacher ratio
Student-Teacher ratio refers to the number of teachers in a school or university with respect to the number of students who attend the institution. For example, a student teacher ratio of 10:1 indicates that there are 10 students for every one teacher. The term can also be reversed to create a...

 of 14.3.

Academic programs


Medical Sciences is a program in which exceptional students in the sciences and mathematics are able to advance their studies in those fields. Some required classes in this program include Biochemistry/Organic Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, and Statistics. A unique required class, Research, involves the creation and experimentation of year long individual research projects culminating in presentations of each students findings. In previous years, students' research projects have been selected for statewide presentations and competitions as well as the Intel Science Talent Search
Intel Science Talent Search
The Intel Science Talent Search is a research-based science competition in the United States primarily for high school students. It has been referred to "the nation's oldest and most prestigious" science competition, and the Westinghouse/Intel awards have been referred to as the "Baby Nobels." ...

.

Freehold also houses the Computer Science Academy. This specialized academy teaches students about computers, with most of its focus on programming in languages such as Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

, Visual Basic
Visual Basic
Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment ' from Microsoft for its COM programming model...

, and C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features...

. The program also features study in topics such as data structures and discrete mathematics.

The Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management Academy is a unique program that allows students to work in the student-run, one hundred-seat, fine dining restaurant serving the public, catered events, and school functions. In 2005, the program was selected to present sample menu/recipes at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....

’s Garden State Series.

Administration


Core members of the school's administration are:
  • Principal: Linda C. Jewell
  • Assistant Principal: Scott Liptzin
  • Assistant Principal: John Schollenberger
  • Supervisor of Extracurricular Activities: Jesse Renna

Awards and recognition


In Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

's
May 22, 2007, issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Freehold High School was listed in 1338th place, the 47th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.

The school was the 129th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly is a monthly glossy publication featuring issues of possible interest to residents of the United States state of New Jersey....

magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 95th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

History


Freehold High School was originally located on the corner of Husdon and Bennett Street in Freehold Borough. At the time it was called the Hudson Street School. It has been at its present location, Robertsville Road and Broadway since 1925. The school is the oldest in the Freehold Regional High School District, having been the original facility that drew students from several Western Monmouth County communities.

Freehold High School, as such, came into being as a result of a referendum vote on October 6, 1953, in which seven districts united to form the Freehold Regional High School District. Freehold High School was purchased by the Regional District from the Freehold Borough Board of Education
Freehold Borough Schools
The Freehold Borough Schools are a community public school district that serves approximately 1,400 students in grades pre-K through 8th grade from Freehold Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey....

.

Medical Sciences Learning Center


The Medical Sciences Learning Center (or Med Sci), a specialized academic program within Freehold High School, is a specific course load designed for students interested in continued study of the Medical Sciences. Admittance to the program is highly selective and requires a high enough score on a Mathematics/English Standardized Test and compelling short essays regarding motivation for application. At the end of the rigorous four years of Med Sci, a few graduates have attended schools such as Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, China, and Singapore...

, King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a British higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge...

, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five...

, MIT, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and is one of several institutions that claims to have been the first university in America...

 , the rest of the Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group...

, and a number of accelerated and guaranteed medical programs with Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839...

, Northwestern University
Northwestern University


Freehold High School (sometimes called Freehold Boro or Freehold Borough High School to distinguish it from Freehold Township High School
Freehold Township High School
Freehold Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located within Freehold Township, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District...

) is a four-year public high school
Public high school
A public high school is a secondary school in the United States of America that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues and administered exclusively by state and local officials. On the other hand, private schools are typically funded by tuition and private donations....

 located within Freehold Borough
Freehold Borough, New Jersey
Freehold Borough is a Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 10,976. It is the county seat of Monmouth County....

, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...

, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District
Freehold Regional High School District
The Freehold Regional High School District is a public regional school district serving students in grades 9-12 from eight communities in western Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The district, consisting of six high schools, is the largest regional high school district in the state of...

. The school serves students from Freehold Borough and from portions of Freehold Township
Freehold Township, New Jersey
Freehold Township is a Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 31,537. Freehold Township was first formed on October 31, 1693, and was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21,...

. Freehold High School is the home of the Medical Sciences Learning Center, the Computer Science Academy and the Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management Academy.

As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,376 students and 96 classroom teachers (on a FTE
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent is a way to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or a student's enrollment at an educational institution. An FTE of 1.0 means that the person is equivalent to a full-time worker, while an FTE of 0.5 signals that the worker is only half-time...

 basis, for a student-teacher ratio
Student-teacher ratio
Student-Teacher ratio refers to the number of teachers in a school or university with respect to the number of students who attend the institution. For example, a student teacher ratio of 10:1 indicates that there are 10 students for every one teacher. The term can also be reversed to create a...

 of 14.3.

Academic programs


Medical Sciences is a program in which exceptional students in the sciences and mathematics are able to advance their studies in those fields. Some required classes in this program include Biochemistry/Organic Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, and Statistics. A unique required class, Research, involves the creation and experimentation of year long individual research projects culminating in presentations of each students findings. In previous years, students' research projects have been selected for statewide presentations and competitions as well as the Intel Science Talent Search
Intel Science Talent Search
The Intel Science Talent Search is a research-based science competition in the United States primarily for high school students. It has been referred to "the nation's oldest and most prestigious" science competition, and the Westinghouse/Intel awards have been referred to as the "Baby Nobels." ...

.

Freehold also houses the Computer Science Academy. This specialized academy teaches students about computers, with most of its focus on programming in languages such as Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

, Visual Basic
Visual Basic
Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment ' from Microsoft for its COM programming model...

, and C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features...

. The program also features study in topics such as data structures and discrete mathematics.

The Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management Academy is a unique program that allows students to work in the student-run, one hundred-seat, fine dining restaurant serving the public, catered events, and school functions. In 2005, the program was selected to present sample menu/recipes at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....

’s Garden State Series.

Administration


Core members of the school's administration are:
  • Principal: Linda C. Jewell
  • Assistant Principal: Scott Liptzin
  • Assistant Principal: John Schollenberger
  • Supervisor of Extracurricular Activities: Jesse Renna

Awards and recognition


In Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

's
May 22, 2007, issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Freehold High School was listed in 1338th place, the 47th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.

The school was the 129th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly is a monthly glossy publication featuring issues of possible interest to residents of the United States state of New Jersey....

magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 95th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

History


Freehold High School was originally located on the corner of Husdon and Bennett Street in Freehold Borough. At the time it was called the Hudson Street School. It has been at its present location, Robertsville Road and Broadway since 1925. The school is the oldest in the Freehold Regional High School District, having been the original facility that drew students from several Western Monmouth County communities.

Freehold High School, as such, came into being as a result of a referendum vote on October 6, 1953, in which seven districts united to form the Freehold Regional High School District. Freehold High School was purchased by the Regional District from the Freehold Borough Board of Education
Freehold Borough Schools
The Freehold Borough Schools are a community public school district that serves approximately 1,400 students in grades pre-K through 8th grade from Freehold Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey....

.

Medical Sciences Learning Center


The Medical Sciences Learning Center (or Med Sci), a specialized academic program within Freehold High School, is a specific course load designed for students interested in continued study of the Medical Sciences. Admittance to the program is highly selective and requires a high enough score on a Mathematics/English Standardized Test and compelling short essays regarding motivation for application. At the end of the rigorous four years of Med Sci, a few graduates have attended schools such as Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, China, and Singapore...

, King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a British higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge...

, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five...

, MIT, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and is one of several institutions that claims to have been the first university in America...

 , the rest of the Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group...

, and a number of accelerated and guaranteed medical programs with Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839...

, Northwestern University
Northwestern University


Freehold High School (sometimes called Freehold Boro or Freehold Borough High School to distinguish it from Freehold Township High School
Freehold Township High School
Freehold Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located within Freehold Township, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District...

) is a four-year public high school
Public high school
A public high school is a secondary school in the United States of America that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues and administered exclusively by state and local officials. On the other hand, private schools are typically funded by tuition and private donations....

 located within Freehold Borough
Freehold Borough, New Jersey
Freehold Borough is a Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 10,976. It is the county seat of Monmouth County....

, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...

, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District
Freehold Regional High School District
The Freehold Regional High School District is a public regional school district serving students in grades 9-12 from eight communities in western Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The district, consisting of six high schools, is the largest regional high school district in the state of...

. The school serves students from Freehold Borough and from portions of Freehold Township
Freehold Township, New Jersey
Freehold Township is a Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 31,537. Freehold Township was first formed on October 31, 1693, and was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21,...

. Freehold High School is the home of the Medical Sciences Learning Center, the Computer Science Academy and the Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management Academy.

As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,376 students and 96 classroom teachers (on a FTE
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent is a way to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or a student's enrollment at an educational institution. An FTE of 1.0 means that the person is equivalent to a full-time worker, while an FTE of 0.5 signals that the worker is only half-time...

 basis, for a student-teacher ratio
Student-teacher ratio
Student-Teacher ratio refers to the number of teachers in a school or university with respect to the number of students who attend the institution. For example, a student teacher ratio of 10:1 indicates that there are 10 students for every one teacher. The term can also be reversed to create a...

 of 14.3.

Academic programs


Medical Sciences is a program in which exceptional students in the sciences and mathematics are able to advance their studies in those fields. Some required classes in this program include Biochemistry/Organic Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, and Statistics. A unique required class, Research, involves the creation and experimentation of year long individual research projects culminating in presentations of each students findings. In previous years, students' research projects have been selected for statewide presentations and competitions as well as the Intel Science Talent Search
Intel Science Talent Search
The Intel Science Talent Search is a research-based science competition in the United States primarily for high school students. It has been referred to "the nation's oldest and most prestigious" science competition, and the Westinghouse/Intel awards have been referred to as the "Baby Nobels." ...

.

Freehold also houses the Computer Science Academy. This specialized academy teaches students about computers, with most of its focus on programming in languages such as Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

, Visual Basic
Visual Basic
Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment ' from Microsoft for its COM programming model...

, and C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features...

. The program also features study in topics such as data structures and discrete mathematics.

The Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management Academy is a unique program that allows students to work in the student-run, one hundred-seat, fine dining restaurant serving the public, catered events, and school functions. In 2005, the program was selected to present sample menu/recipes at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....

’s Garden State Series.

Administration


Core members of the school's administration are:
  • Principal: Linda C. Jewell
  • Assistant Principal: Scott Liptzin
  • Assistant Principal: John Schollenberger
  • Supervisor of Extracurricular Activities: Jesse Renna

Awards and recognition


In Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

's
May 22, 2007, issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Freehold High School was listed in 1338th place, the 47th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.

The school was the 129th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly
New Jersey Monthly is a monthly glossy publication featuring issues of possible interest to residents of the United States state of New Jersey....

magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 95th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

History


Freehold High School was originally located on the corner of Husdon and Bennett Street in Freehold Borough. At the time it was called the Hudson Street School. It has been at its present location, Robertsville Road and Broadway since 1925. The school is the oldest in the Freehold Regional High School District, having been the original facility that drew students from several Western Monmouth County communities.

Freehold High School, as such, came into being as a result of a referendum vote on October 6, 1953, in which seven districts united to form the Freehold Regional High School District. Freehold High School was purchased by the Regional District from the Freehold Borough Board of Education
Freehold Borough Schools
The Freehold Borough Schools are a community public school district that serves approximately 1,400 students in grades pre-K through 8th grade from Freehold Borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey....

.

Medical Sciences Learning Center


The Medical Sciences Learning Center (or Med Sci), a specialized academic program within Freehold High School, is a specific course load designed for students interested in continued study of the Medical Sciences. Admittance to the program is highly selective and requires a high enough score on a Mathematics/English Standardized Test and compelling short essays regarding motivation for application. At the end of the rigorous four years of Med Sci, a few graduates have attended schools such as Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, China, and Singapore...

, King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a British higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge...

, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five...

, MIT, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and is one of several institutions that claims to have been the first university in America...

 , the rest of the Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group...

, and a number of accelerated and guaranteed medical programs with Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839...

, Northwestern University
Northwestern University
{{Infobox university|name = Northwestern University|image_name = NU seal.png|motto = Quaecumque sunt vera |mottoeng =Whatsoever things are true |established = 1851|type = Private|calendar = Quarter...

, Drexel University College of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine is the medical school of Drexel University. The medical school has the nation's largest enrollment for a private medical school, and represents the consolidation of two medical schools: the nation's first medical school for women and the first U.S. college of...

, and The College of New Jersey
The College of New Jersey
The College of New Jersey, abbreviated TCNJ, formerly Trenton State College, is a public, coeducational university located in Ewing Township, New Jersey, a northern suburb of Trenton....

.

The program course load comprises the following:
  • Freshman Year - Biology (H), Intro to Computer Science, Geometry/Algebra II
  • Sophomore Year - Med Sci Chemistry (H), AP Statistics, Precalculus (H)
  • Junior Year - Research, Honors Biochemistry/Organic Chemistry (H), AP Calculus BC
  • Senior Year - Anatomy/Physiology (H), Med Sci Physics (H)


In the senior year of the program, a monthly externship with the local hospital, CentraState Healthcare System
CentraState Healthcare System
CentraState Healthcare System, also known as CentraState Medical Center, is a not for profit health organization in Freehold, New Jersey, USA. It was founded in 1971....

, is required of all the medical sciences students. Students are separated into small groups in which they are sent to different divisions of the hospital to learn hands-on about the different health care occupations. Several areas students have been sent to include the Morgue
Morgue
A morgue or mortuary is a building or room used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification, or removal for autopsy or burial, cremation or some other post-death ritual...

, Orthopedics, Cardiology
Cardiology
Cardiology is a specialty dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels. The field includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology. Physicians specializing in this field of medicine are...

, Radiology
Radiology
Radiology is the branch or specialty of medicine that deals with the study and application of imaging technology like x-ray and radiation to diagnosing and treating disease....

, etc.

In Junior year, every student must develop his/her own research paper over the course of the year. These papers culminate in an individual presentation at the end of the year. The best work is then selected and submitted to statewide competitions. In previous years, individuals have also competed in the Intel Science Talent Search
Intel Science Talent Search
The Intel Science Talent Search is a research-based science competition in the United States primarily for high school students. It has been referred to "the nation's oldest and most prestigious" science competition, and the Westinghouse/Intel awards have been referred to as the "Baby Nobels." ...

 for semifinalist placement.

Computer Science Academy


The Computer Science and Technology Academy (also CSA or Comp Sci) is a four-year program meant to immerse students in the field of computer science early, allowing them to be highly prepared when they enter an undergraduate program. As an academy as opposed to a learning center, students still take those classes that they are most prepared for outside of the academy. Many of the classes the students take are honors or advanced placement.

The academy's classes are designed to give students a little taste of everything with the following three goals:
  • To give students a solid and rigorous background in computer science principles, including the requisite mathematical foundations.
  • To build proficiency in the problem solving techniques of Computer Science.
  • To provide graduates of the Academy with the background and the skills necessary to continue their education in college.


The four computer science and four math classes are as follows:

Freshman Year
  • Honors Computer Science I: QBasic
    QBasic
    QBasic is an IDE and interpreter for a variant of the BASIC programming language which is based on QuickBasic. Code entered into the IDE is compiled to an intermediate form, and this intermediate form is immediately interpreted on demand within the IDE. It can run under nearly all versions of DOS...

     and Java
    Java (programming language)
    Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

  • Honors CS Math I: Honors Geometry
    Geometry
    Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers....

     and Discrete mathematics
    Discrete mathematics
    Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous. Real numbers and rational numbers have the property that between any two numbers a third can be found, and consequently these numbers vary "smoothly"...


Sophomore Year
  • Honors Computer Science II: Visual Basic
    Visual Basic
    Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment ' from Microsoft for its COM programming model...

     and Java (applets)
    Java applet
    A Java applet is an applet delivered to the users in the form of Java bytecode. Java applets can run in a Web browser using a Java Virtual Machine , or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand-alone tool for testing applets. Java applets were introduced in the first version of the Java language in 1995...

  • Honors CS Math II: Honors Algebra 2
    Algebra
    Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning the study of the rules of operations and the things which can be constructed from them, including terms, polynomials, equations and algebraic structures...

     and Discrete mathematics
    Discrete mathematics
    Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous. Real numbers and rational numbers have the property that between any two numbers a third can be found, and consequently these numbers vary "smoothly"...


Junior Year
  • Honors Computer Science III: Java
    Java (programming language)
    Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

     in preparation for either the AP Computer Science A exam or AP Computer Science AB exam
    AP Computer Science
    Advanced Placement Computer Science is the name of two distinct Advanced Placement courses and examinations offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn college credit for a college-level computer science course...

  • (Honors) Pre-Calculus

Senior Year
  • Honors Computer Science IV: C++
    C++
    C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features...

     and SQL
    SQL
    SQL is a database computer language designed for managing data in relational database management systems , and originally based upon Relational Algebra. Its scope includes data query and update, schema creation and modification, and data access control. SQL was one of the first languages for...

     using Microsoft Access
    Microsoft Access
    Microsoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software development tools...

    • A Senior Project is also completely in which 1 to 2 students work on a project of their choosing in any field of computer science. Past projects have included instant messaging programs, 64-bit games, and AI programs.
  • Either AP Calculus (AB or BC)
    AP Calculus
    Advanced Placement Calculus is used to indicate one of two distinct Advanced Placement courses and examinations offered by the College Board, AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC....

     or AP Statistics


The computer science math courses include discrete math
Discrete mathematics
Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous. Real numbers and rational numbers have the property that between any two numbers a third can be found, and consequently these numbers vary "smoothly"...

 topics such as graph theory
Graph theory
In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graphs: mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. A "graph" in this context refers to a collection of vertices or 'nodes' and a collection of edges that connect pairs of...

 and Boolean algebra.

The Comp Sci Academy has also won a number of computer competitions, participating in events including the ACSL All-Star round for several years. In 2005, the Freehold High School five-person team came in fourth in the Senior Division of the American Computer Science League
American Computer Science League
ACSL , or the American Computer Science League, is an international computer science competition among more than 200 schools. Each round consists of two parts: a written section and a programming section...

 2005-06 International All-Star Competition.
The academy has also won the NJIT high school programming contest, in 2006 (7 of 8 programs complete) and 2008 (8 of 8 programs complete). This was the first time in the competition's history that a team has won twice, and only the second time all 8 programs have been completed.

Culinary Arts Academy


The Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management Academy is a unique program allowing students to gain hands-on experience through the operation of the Five Star Cafe, a 100-seat restaurant located within Freehold High School. The 4-year college-level curriculum prepares students for entry in the restaurant/hospitality field and post-secondary education. Graduating students annually receive over $250,000.00 in scholarships and articulation awards. Many graduates of the academy attend the Culinary Institute of America
Culinary Institute of America
The Culinary Institute of America is a culinary school located in Hyde Park USA, founded in 1946. The CIA also has branch campuses in St. Helena, California, and San Antonio, Texas. It is a not-for-profit academic institution of higher learning...

 in Hyde Park, NY and Johnson and Wales University in Providence, RI and Miami, FL. Facilities of the Academy feature the 100-seat dining room, state-of-the-art commercial kitchen, bakery, and lecture room. On March 14, 2007 the Culinary Arts Academy hosted Governor Jon Corzine
Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine is the Governor of New Jersey and a former United States Senator. A Democrat, Corzine served five years of a six-year Senate term before being elected Governor in 2005. He is a candidate for re-election in 2009....

 (D-NJ) and members of the New Jersey State Legislature.

Courses

Freshmen year: Introduction to Commercial Foods

Sophomore year: Introduction to Commercial Baking

Junior year: Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management I

Senior year: Culinary Arts/Hospitality Management II
Menu Planning and Design

Electives: Culinary Math
Culinary Food Science

January 10th, 2007


On January 10, 2007, three Freehold High School students were killed in a car accident. James Warnock and Michael Dragonetti, both seniors, and Andrew Lundy, a junior, were driving home from school when they hit a van going in the opposite direction. Freehold Boro students held a memorial service for their classmates and gathered at the scene of the accident for days afterwards. The driver of the van, Ruth MacArthur, was killed on impact; the van's only passenger survived.

Athletics


The Freehold High School Colonials compete in the B-North Division of the Shore Conference
Shore Conference
The Shore Conference is an athletic conference of private and public high schools in the U.S. state of New Jersey, centered at the Northern Jersey Shore. All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County. The Shore Conference is broken up into six classes based on...

, an athletic conference made up of private and public high school
Public high school
A public high school is a secondary school in the United States of America that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues and administered exclusively by state and local officials. On the other hand, private schools are typically funded by tuition and private donations....

s centered at the Northern Jersey Shore
Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore is a term used in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States to refer to both the Atlantic coast of New Jersey and the adjacent resort and residential communities...

. All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County
Monmouth County, New Jersey
Monmouth County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, within the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2000 Census, the population was 615,301, which had grown to 642,030 as of the Bureau's 2007 estimate. Its county seat is Freehold Borough. The most populous municipality is...

 and Ocean County
Ocean County, New Jersey
Ocean County is a county located along the Jersey Shore in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its county seat is Toms River, which, like the county itself, has been one of the fastest growing areas of the state since the 1990s. As of the United States 2000 Census, the population was 510,916...

. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association , founded in 1918, is a voluntary, non-profit organization made up of 425 accredited public, private and parochial high schools in New Jersey. The daily administration is carried out by the Executive Director, Mr. Steve Timko. NJSIAA...

 (NJSIAA). The Athletic Facilities are named after the late Athletic Director Cal Dean Wilson.

The girls soccer team won the 2006 Central Jersey Group III sectional title, defeating Hopewell Valley Central High School 1-0 in the tournament final. Coach Moses, the girls soccer team coach, tied his last game for the state champions, becoming a rarity, co-state champions in the 2006 season, tying Ramapo High School 0-0 in the Group III championship game held on November 28, 2006, at the College of New Jersey. In 2007, the girls soccer team won the Central, Group III state sectional championship with a 3-0 win over Hightstown High School
Hightstown High School
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, as part of the East Windsor Regional School District. Students come from East Windsor...

 in the tournament final.

The girls soccer team won the 1999 Public Group Semifinals for Central Jersey, Group II, with a 2-0 win over Somerville High School
Somerville High School (New Jersey)
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. Timothy O'Halloran is the school's principal...

. The team won the title again in 2001, topping Ridge High School
Ridge High School
Ridge High School is a four-year public high school serving students from Bernards Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The school is part of the Bernards Township School District....

 2-1.

In 2007, the field hockey team won the North II, Group III state sectional championship with a 3-0 win over Warren Hills High School
Warren Hills High School
Warren Hills Regional High School is a four-year public high school located in Warren County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Warren Hills Regional School District, and offers a comprehensive education for students in grades 9 through 12...

 in the tournament final.

In 2007, the Girls Varsity Soccer team beat Ramapo High School 2-1 in double overtime, winning the official title, of New Jersey Group III Girls Soccer Champions.

Also in 2007, the Girls Cross Country team finished a successful season.

In 2008, the varsity football team took the sectional group III title, the first sectional title in football in school history.

The school has major rivalries with Freehold Township High School
Freehold Township High School
Freehold Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located within Freehold Township, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District...

 and Colts Neck High School
Colts Neck High School
Colts Neck High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Colts Neck Township, New Jersey, as part of the Freehold Regional High School District...

.

Notable alumni

  • Scott Conover
    Scott Conover
    Kelsey Scott Conover is a former professional football player.A native of Freehold, New Jersey, Scott graduated from Freehold Borough HS and went on to attend and play football for Purdue University in Indiana. While at Purdue Scott was a defensive lineman for his first three seasons before being...

     (born 1968), former Detroit Lions
    Detroit Lions
    The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in downtown Detroit....

     offensive tackle
    Offensive tackle
    In American and Canadian football, offensive tackles are a part of the offensive line. Like other offensive linemen, their job is to block: to physically keep defenders away from the offensive player who has the football....

     (1991-96)
  • David Garrison
    David Garrison
    David Gene Garrison is an American actor. His primary venue is live theatre, but he may be most widely known for his numerous television roles, particularly that of Steve Rhoades on the long-running Married... with Children...

     (born 1952), actor who played the character Steve Rhoades on the television show Married… with Children.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}}
  • Danny Lewis
    Danny Lewis (football player)
    Daniel Nathan Lewis is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions, the Washington Redskins, and the New York Giants...

     (born 1936), Former NFL player.
  • Craig Mazin
    Craig Mazin
    Craig Mazin is an American screenwriter and director.Mazin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in psychology from Princeton University in 1992...

     (born 1971), screenwriter, director and producer
  • Tim Perry
    Tim Perry
    Timothy D. Perry is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA.Following a college career at Temple University, Perry was selected seventh overall by the Phoenix Suns in the 1988 NBA Draft...

     (born 1965), former NBA player.
  • Darrell Reid
    Darrell Reid
    Darrell Reid is an American football linebacker for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at Minnesota....

     (born 1982), current Indianapolis Colts
    Indianapolis Colts
    The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....

     Defensive End
    Defensive end
    Defensive End is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...

    .
  • Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band...

     (born 1949), rock n' roll musician who had huge success with 1975's Born to Run
    Born to Run
    Born to Run is the third album by the American rock singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It was released on August 25, 1975 through Columbia Records. It captured the heaviness of Springsteen's earlier releases while displaying a more diverse range of influences.Born to Run was a critical and...

     and 1984's Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A. is the seventh studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on June 4, 1984. His popular and commercial triumph, it found Springsteen marking a departure in his sound – while the predecessor, the dark and acoustic Nebraska featured songs of...

    , but interestingly enough Springsteen skipped his graduation ceremony from Freehold High School in 1967.

Other high schools in the district


The other schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics
National Center for Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...

) are:
  • Colts Neck High School
    Colts Neck High School
    Colts Neck High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Colts Neck Township, New Jersey, as part of the Freehold Regional High School District...

     - 1,766 students from Colts Neck and portions of Marlboro.
  • Freehold Township High School
    Freehold Township High School
    Freehold Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located within Freehold Township, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District...

     - 2,144 students from portions of Freehold Township, Howell and Manalapan.
  • Howell High School - 1,949 students from portions of Howell and Farmingdale.
  • Manalapan High School
    Manalapan High School
    Manalapan High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Englishtown, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Freehold Regional High School District....

     - 1,973 students from portions of Manalapan and Englishtown.
  • Marlboro High School
    Marlboro High School
    Marlboro High School, home of the Mustangs, is a four-year comprehensive public high school located within Marlboro Township, New Jersey, and is part of the Freehold Regional High School District...

     - 2,241 students from portions of Marlboro.

External links


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