Levels

Oxford High offers four levels of courses to every student, ensuring that each student learns at their own pace, no matter how slow or fast. These are career, college preparatory, honors, and Advanced Placement.

Rules and Regulation

Oxford High School's graduation requirements are as follows: 4 years of English and Physical Education

Physical education

Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....

, 3 years of Math, Social Studies

Social studies

Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...

, and Science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

, and 2 years of a World Language\

Sports and Extracurricular Activities

Oxford High School is the home of the Oxford Pirates. Over the years budget cuts for public schools have been an issue but, with the help of the students and the community, sports are still a part of the school community. The school offers sports including football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, soccer, golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, track

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, and An NJROTC program

The school also offers other extracurricular activities such as ski club, band, theater and chorus

Choir

A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...

. The Oxford High School Band is directed by Mr. Alton Baggett, an exceptionally talented musician and devoted teacher. Alton Baggett is also in charge of the marching band which performs at every home football game both pregame and at halftime. The school colors are Orange & Black.

Other Websites

• http://www.oxps.org (The Oxford School System's Website).