North Brunswick Township High School
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- For the school in North Carolina, see North Brunswick High SchoolNorth Brunswick High SchoolNorth Brunswick High School is a public school located in Leland, North Carolina which is part of Brunswick County Schools district. As of the 2007-08 school years, North Brunswick has 892 students in grades 9 through 12 currently enrolled...
North Brunswick Township High School (NBTHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in North Brunswick Township
North Brunswick Township, New Jersey
-Demographics:At the 2010 census, there were 40,742 people, 13,635 households and 9,367 families residing in the township. The population density was 3,018.3 per square mile . There were 13,932 housing units at an average density of 1,158.8 per square mile...
, in Middlesex County
Middlesex County, New Jersey
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 750,162 people, 265,815 households, and 190,855 families residing in the county. The population density was 2,422 people per square mile . There were 273,637 housing units at an average density of 884 per square mile...
, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, United States, as part of the North Brunswick Township Public Schools
North Brunswick Township Public Schools
The North Brunswick Township Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from North Brunswick Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States....
.
Student body and school ranking
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,789 students and 117 classroom teachers (on an FTEFull-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.29.
The school was the 143rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 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 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 132nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 130th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Nearly 90% of the 1,800 students at NBTHS go on to institutions of higher education, with many choosing to attend Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
, the nearby state university. The school has sent students to the summer programs at the Governor's School of New Jersey
Governor's School of New Jersey
The Governor's School of New Jersey, a member of the National Conference of Governor's Schools, is a summer program for artistically or academically talented high school students from New Jersey, who have completed their junior year. The School is an intensive three-week residential program...
summer program and the Johns Hopkins University Center For Talented Youth. The school offers over fifteen Advanced Placement Program
Advanced Placement Program
The Advanced Placement program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college...
(AP) courses, and had over 20 AP scholars for the 2005-06 school year.
The school is considered to be both economically and ethnically diverse. As of 2005, the student body was 44% White, 23% Black, 17% Asian, and 16% Hispanic. Economically, the school enrolls students who come from high-income to low-income backgrounds.
Awards and recognition
For the 1999-2000 school year under the leadership of Dr. Robert J. Rimmer, North Brunswick Township High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon SchoolBlue Ribbon Schools Program
The Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United States government program created in 1981 to honor schools which have achieved high levels of performance or significant improvements with emphasis on schools serving disadvantaged students. The program centers around a self-assessment conducted by the...
Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education
United States Department of Education
The United States Department of Education, also referred to as ED or the ED for Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government...
, the highest award an American school can receive.
Property and facilities
NBTHS is located on a sprawling 10 acres (40,468.6 m²) property off of U.S. Route 130U.S. Route 130
U.S. Route 130 is a north–south U.S. Highway completely within the state of New Jersey. It runs from Interstate 295 and US 40 at Deepwater in Pennsville Township, Salem County, where the road continues east as Route 49, north to US 1 in North Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, where...
South. The school was first built in 1973 to accommodate the growing student population (which, at the time, attended New Brunswick High School). The school, at the time an architectural marvel, was nicknamed by students from neighboring schools as the “Country Club” in its early years. Due to the growing population of students in North Brunswick, the school has undergone two expansions in 1990 and 2004-2006. During the latter renovation project, it was discovered that the land under the high school had served as a garbage dump prior to the construction of the building. This was a chief cause in the delays of the construction project. Another major cause for delay was multiple budgetary issues that required a public vote by township citizens. Apart from standard classrooms, the school has a fully equipped library, six electronic classrooms, several computer labs with both Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
and Macintosh
Macintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
computers, industrial technological rooms, naturally lit art studios, a photography studio with a Darkroom
Darkroom
A darkroom is a room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of light sensitive photographic materials, including photographic film and photographic paper. Darkrooms have been created and used since the inception of photography in the early 19th century...
, three gymnasiums, two music rooms, an auditorium with an orchestra pit, television production studios, and a commons area that serves as a link between the school and outside community.
Athletics
NBTHS is a member of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic AssociationNew Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association is an association of hundreds of New Jersey high schools that regulates high school athletics and holds tournaments and crowns champions in high school sports.-State championships:...
(NJSIAA) and holds membership in the Greater Middlesex Conference
Greater Middlesex Conference
The Greater Middlesex Conference is an athletic conference comprising 33 public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County, New Jersey area. The league operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.-Gold Division:-Blue...
(GMC). NBTHS has a wide range of athletic facilities, available to both its student body and the North Brunswick community. With over six multipurpose athletic fields, a six-lane track, a football stadium, five tennis courts, a gymnasium that seats over 1,500 people, and three multipurpose baseball/softball diamonds, the school has long been considered one of the premier athletic facilities in the county. Furthermore, the school is one of the only GMC members that has a six-lane indoor swimming pool, and has thus frequently been the host of GMC Championships and state sectional meets. Annually, the school's boys’ soccer and girls’ swimming teams are among the stronger representatives of the school's athletics, with which numerous state championships have been captured over the last decade.The girls swim team was undefeated in the 2007-2008 season, in addition to being the GMC champions.The school also fields teams in football, girls’ soccer, boys and girls’ tennis, boys and girls’ basketball, baseball, softball, boys and girls’ lacrosse, boys’ swimming, diving, boys and girls’ winter and spring track and field, cross-country, gymnastics, wrestling, and golf. Volleyball was introduced in the 2005-06 season.The school's main rivals include the New Brunswick Zebras, East Brunswick Bears and the South Brunswick Vikings.
Extracurricular activities
NBTHS offers close to 35 extracurricular activities for its students, many of which are integrated with the school’s academic curriculum. Its DECADECA (organization)
DECA, also known as Collegiate DECA on the college level) is an international association of students and teachers of marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business, finance, hospitality, and marketing sales and service . DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing,...
program, linked with the school’s marketing coursework, has won championships at the regional, state, and the national levels. The Model United Nations
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
has won honors at a variety of prestigious conferences, including those held at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
and Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. Daedalus, the product of the school’s yearbook program, has won awards for excellence in yearbook production across New Jersey and at an annual conference held by Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
.
The school also serves as the host to a chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America
FBLA-PBL
The Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda, or FBLA-PBL, is an American career and technical student organization that has its headquarters in Reston, Virginia...
(FBLA), Key Club
Key Club
Key Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
, as well as honor societies like the National Honor Society
National Honor Society
The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
, National Art Honor Society
National Art Honor Society
The National Art Honor Society was established in 1978 in the United States by the National Art Education Association for high school students grades 10-12, for "the purpose of inspiring and recognizing those students who have shown an outstanding ability in art" from the National Art Honor Society...
, Spanish Honor Society, French Honor Society, German Honor Society, Latin Honor Society, and Italian Honor Society.
The school’s arts program continues to rapidly grow. As a consequence of the growth, the North Brunswick Board of Education approved a $67 million expansion that includes a 1,000 seat auditorium, music practice rooms, and theater and film production studios. The school has a marching band, which competes locally in the United States Scholastic Band Association
United States Scholastic Band Association
The United States Scholastic Band Association was formed in the Fall of 1988 to provide high school band programs with a competitive circuit featuring top judges from across the continent and a venue for the US Scholastic Band Championship....
(USSBA) circuit, along with a full orchestra, choir, a cappella group, jazz band, and winter percussion ensemble, who has been currently six years undefeated.
The school also has a full theatre program (The Alchemist Theatre Company), which puts on three performances on an annual basis. During the 2009-2010 school year, they performed the farce Noises Off
Noises Off
Noises Off is a 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of Chinamen, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave...
in the fall, the student-directed "Theatre Revue 2010" in the winter, and the zany musical Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical)
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Richard Morris and Scanlan. Based on the 1967 film of the same name, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of a small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York City to marry for...
in the spring, all grossing more profits than any other school function. In the 2010-2011 school year, the Alchemist Theatre Company is performing The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie,...
in the fall, "Theatre Revue 2011" in the winter, and Hairspray
Hairspray (musical)
Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues...
in the spring.
Members of NBTHS also participate in the FIRST
First
First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one.First or 1st may also refer to:* First , minor summit below the Schwarzhorn in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland* First , mountain in Bernese Alps in Switzerland...
Robotics Program. Team 25, Raider Robotix, sponsored by local corporation Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb , often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger of its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation...
, won the national Championship in 2000, and finished as world championship finalists in 2003 and 2006. The team has also consistently won numerous state regionals all across the country as well and received international recognition for its achievements.
Other organizations include the school newspaper (The Banner), Environmental club, language clubs, Film production club, Care-to-Walk Club, Health Careers Club, Human Psych Club, Chemistry Club, Science League, the Academic Team, Mock Trial, the Debate Team, and the LAMBDA Coalition.
In the 2008-09 school year the mock trial team earned the titles of Middlesex County Champions, as well as Central Jersey, and ended third in the state. It was the first time in over 30 years that a Middlesex County team advanced to semi-regionals.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:- Joseph Peter "Pete" Clark, Principal
- Suzan Ezdinli-Palazzo, World Language Supervisor/Assistant Principal - Class of 2011
- Jason Lester, Business-Technology Supervisor/Assistant Principal - Class of 2012
- Debra Serafin, Physical Education & Health Supervisor/Assistant Principal - Class of 2013
- Aaron Speller*, Social Studies Supervisor/Assistant Principal - Class of 2014
- Patricia Van Langen, Learning Center (Special Education) Supervisor/Assistant Principal - Class of 2014
As of April 25, 2011, it was announced that Mr. Aaron Speller (Class of 2014 Assistant Principal/Social Studies Supervisor) would be relocated to be an interim assistant principal at North Brunswick's middle school, Linwood Middle School. Mrs. Patricia Van Langen, supervisor of the learning center/special education would serve as the assistant principal for the class of 2014 for the remainder of the 2010-2011 school year. Until the end of the school year, teacher Sidney Dawson will serve as a liaison for the social studies department.
Notable faculty
- James EganJamie EganJames "Jamie" Egan is a high school band teacher and professional musician who resides in New Jersey. He has taught at Spotswood High School and E.R. Appleby Elementary School in Spotswood. He currently teaches at North Brunswick Township High School, in North Brunswick, New Jersey...
is a band teacher at NBTHS and professional trombonist and trumpeter who has performed with skaSkaSka |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
bands such as Catch 22Catch 22 (band)Catch 22 is an American ska punk band from East Brunswick Township, New Jersey.The band was formed by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tomas Kalnoky and drummer Chris Greer who recruited trumpeter Kevin Gunther, who was working in a local record store...
and Streetlight ManifestoStreetlight ManifestoStreetlight Manifesto is an American punk band with many influences from different genres including ska, from New Brunswick, New Jersey fronted by Tomas Kalnoky....
Notable alumni
- Tim HowardTim HowardTimothy Matthew Howard is an American soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for English club Everton and the United States national team....
(born 1979), class of 1997, is the first choice goalkeeper for the US National teamUnited States men's national soccer teamThe United States men's national soccer team represents the United States in international association football competitions. It is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in CONCACAF...
. Professionally he plays in the Premier League with EvertonEverton F.C.Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
and previously with Manchester United. - Jim NortonJim Norton (comedian)James Joseph "Jim" Norton, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, radio personality, author, and actor. He is an on-air personality, often dubbed the 'third mic' on The Opie and Anthony Show, which airs on Sirius XM Radio...
(born 1968), comedian, personality on the Opie and Anthony Show. - VaShaya Ramsey (born 1976), celebrity make-up artist works with Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, featured in Vogue, Elle, Avenue, The New York Times and Oprah.
External links
- North Brunswick Township High School
- North Brunswick Township Public Schools
- Great Schools: North Brunswick Township High School Profile
- Data for the North Brunswick Township Public Schools, National Center for Education StatisticsNational Center for Education StatisticsThe 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...
- Raider Robotix Web Page
- North Brunswick Township High School Key Club