Long Branch High School is a comprehensive, four-year community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades in the city of Long Branch, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Long Branch Public Schools. LBPS, one of 31 special-needs Abbott districts in the state, serves the city of Long Branch. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,278 students and 103.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.4:1. There were 792 students (62.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 161 (12.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 228th-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. The school had been ranked 167th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 206th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 246th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 290th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
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Athletics
The Long Branch High School Green Wave compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore. All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County. The conference operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 977 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as Central Jersey, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 822 to 1,068 students in that grade range.
The boys' bowling team won the overall state championship in 1958, edging Bloomfield High School by 20 pins to take the NJSIAA's first state tournament in the sport.
The boys' basketball team won the Group III championship in 1970 (vs. Orange High School), 1977 (vs. Ridgefield Park High School), 1980 (vs. Weequahic High School) and 1998 (vs. Parsippany High School), and won the Group II title in 1997 (vs. Dwight Morrow High School).
The boys' track team won the Group III state indoor relay championship in 1982, 1983 and 1984.
The football team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 1986 and 1999. In 2017, the team won its third sectional championship with a 43-42 overtime win against Freehold Borough High School in the playoff final of the Central Jersey Group IV state sectional tournament, played at High Point Solutions Stadium.
The field hockey team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional title in 1998.
The wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group II state sectional title in 2008-2011 and 2013; the team won the Group II state title in 2008-2010. The school wrestling team won the 2008 Group II team state championship, its first ever, finishing the season with a perfect record of 26-0.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
- Vincent J. Muscillo, Lead Principal
- James H. Brown Jr., Academy Principal of The School of Visual and Performing Arts
- Frank Riley, Administrator/Principal of the School of Leadership
- Angela Y. Torres, Academy Principal of The School of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
- Carmen Vega - Principal, Alternative Program Academy
Notable alumni
- Alex Bradley (born 1959), former professional basketball player who played in the NBA for the New York Knicks.
- Tom Kerwin (born 1944), retired professional basketball player who played one season in the American Basketball Association for the Pittsburgh Pipers.
- Sam Mills (1959-2005), former professional football player for the NFL.
- Robert Pinsky (born 1940) Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1997 to 2000.
- Jim Quirk (born c. 1945, class of 1963), NFL on-field official from 1988 to 2008.
- Yvonne Thornton (born 1947), physician and best-selling author.
- Clinton Wheeler (born 1959), former professional basketball player.
Notable faculty
- Gerry Matthews (born 1941), 30-year college basketball coach who coached the Long Branch High School basketball team.
References
External links
- Long Branch High School
- Long Branch Public Schools
- Long Branch Public Schools's 2015-16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- School Data for the Long Branch Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
- DigitalSports Long Branch Homepage
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