Robbinsville High School
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Robbinsville High School is a comprehensive
public high school
in Robbinsville Township, in Mercer County
, New Jersey
, which operates as part of the Robbinsville Public School District. As of the 2006-07 school year, only students in 12th grade from Washington Township were attending Lawrence High School
in Lawrence Township
, as part of the final year of a sending/receiving relationship
with the Lawrence Township Public Schools
. With the start of the 2007-08 school year, the sending relationship has ended, and Robbinsville High School will serve all of Washington Township's high school students on site and graduated its first class of 150 students in June 2008. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Commission on Secondary Schools since 2008.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 740 students and 53 classroom teachers (on an FTE
basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.96.
The school was the 109th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly
magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after not being ranked in 2008 out of 316 schools.
In 2005, the new high school building opened.
It features a large common area with an atrium to serve as a cafeteria as well as several other purposes, an attached music wing, a central hallway which connects the commons area to the four main wings, the kitchen, the black box theatre, the 1,000-seat auditorium with a 12 feet (3.7 m) opera pit, the gymnasium wing (including a main gym, auxiliary gym, the weight room, locker rooms, and the trainer's office), and the main office as well as administrator's offices on the first floor and contains much technology including a recording studio. Outside, there is a rubberized turf football field along with a track, an aerial obstacle course, and numerous sports fields for all seasons .
, debate club, student and class governments, comic book and manga club, dance team, mock trial
, literary magazine, Technology Student Association, Nemesis - FIRST Robotics Team 2590, the Interact Club, Chorus, Tri-M Musical Society, and the award-winning marching band
(and color guard), known as the Raven Regiment. They received the prestigious "Best Visuals" award at the NJ State Marching Band Competition in 2009, and won 4th out of 23 bands at the Northern states Marching Band Competition in 2010.
Nemesis - FIRST Robotics Team 2590: After a startup in December 2007, powered by a NASA rookie grant, Nemesis built a fast, reliable, gravity based robot, which was undefeated until the final rounds of the NJ Regional Competition, returning with the "Rookie All Star," "Highest Scoring Rookie," and "Finalist" awards. In April, with the support of the Robbinsville community, they flew to the FIRST National Competition in Atlanta, Georgia. Nemesis is organized like a High Tech company with an Executive Committee, Finance, Research and Development, Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Engineering, Marketing and Communications, and Website development teams and awarded the Entrepreneurship Award in 2009. Nemesis placed in the top 10 in the New Jersey, Boston & Washington DC Regionals and awarded the 2010 "Industrial Design" Award and 2011 "NJ Best Website Award". As a nationally certified Project Lead the Way High School, qualified students earn 3 college credits for successful completion of projects-based pre-engineering classes that teach fundamental problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. In 2011, RHS gained national recognition as an Exemplary Career and Technical Education (CTE) program by the National Association of State Directors of CTE for the implementation of PLTW and the FIRST
Robotics Team.
The debate team finished an undefeated season in 2010 and was named Colonial Valley Conference champions. In 2011 the debate team renewed their title as champions.
, which comprises high schools located in Mercer County
, Monmouth County
and Middlesex County
, New Jersey
. The conference operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
.
Sports offered at Robbinsville High School include Boy's and Girl's Tennis, Cross Country, Cheerleading, Track, Football, Wrestling, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Boy's and Girl's Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Boy's and Girls Soccer, Golf, Swimming, and Boy's and Girl's Lacrosse.
The girls soccer team made it to the 2006 NJ State Playoff tournament for Central Jersey Group I, defeating Middlesex High School
2-1 in the first round, before falling to Metuchen High School
by 2-0 in the semifinals.
The girls field hockey team qualified for the 2007 NJ State Playoff tournament for North II Group I, ending their regular season with a record of 12-4, and placed as the #3 seed in the tournament. The field hockey team secured the 4th seed in the 2007 Mercer County Tournament, and advanced to the semi-finals before falling to Stuart Country Day School
in overtime, 2-1.
The boys cross country team qualified for the state finals in 2006 and 2007. The girls cross country team was 2nd in central New Jersey group I and qualified for states in 2007.
In 2007, the varsity football team finished the regular season with a 6-3 record and qualified for the NJSIAA playoffs, losing to Asbury Park High School
, the eventual Group I Champions, by a 41-0 score in the first round of the Central, Group I tournament.
In 2008, the girls' track and field team won both the NJSIAA Group I Central Championship and the Group I State Championship. The Boy Ice Hockey team won the Patriot Division and went to the Mercer County quarterfinals, NJSIAA Public B first round.
In cross country, the girls won the Group I state title in 2008 with Megan Flynn as the individual Group I winner that season, while the boys took the title in 2009.
In 2009, the girls' tennis team broke school records by defeating teams that were never before defeated by either the RHS boys or girls tennis team. Those schools include Steinert High School and Lawrence High School. They were also 12-7 at the end of the season, the first ever winning record for boys or girls tennis. They were also voted "Athletes of the Month" for the month of October. They went on to the Sectionals Tournament and advanced to the finals where they fell to Roselle Park High School
in a heartbreaking match by a score of 3-2.
In the fall of 2010 both the boys and girls cross country teams captured the Patriot Division after deciding victories over Hopewell Valley Central High School at Mercer County Park on October 14, 2010. The boys finished with a dual meet record of 10-3 and the girls finished with a record of 12-1.
The NJSIAA recognized Robbinsville High School as the Group I winner of the Seventh Annual ShopRite Cup in 2009-10, based on the overall performances of the school's athletic teams which included first place finishes in Boys Cross‐Country and Girls Soccer, second place in Girls Cross‐Country, third-place finishes in Indoor Track & Field, Baseball (tie) and Wrestling (tie), along with finishing fourth in both Girls Indoor Relays and Girls Outdoor Track and Field, with an additional nine points awarded for not having any disqualifications during the three sports seasns.
The girls team won the track and field Central Jersey Group I title for the third time in four years, and the boys also won the sectional championships in 2011.
In 2008 the Robbinsville High School, the baseball team turned a 2007 season total of 2 wins into a 16-14 record, a Group I Central Jersey Sectional championship and a spot in the state final before losing to Lyndhurst High School
. In 2009, the team advanced to the state tournament, but lost 9-7 to David Brearley High School
. The 2010 team won a school-record 23 games and the program's second Group I, Central Jersey sectional championship. The 2011 team went 25-4, and won their first ever Mercer County Tournament championship, defeating Steinert High School
for only the second time in school history (the first being earlier that season).
Comprehensive high school
Comprehensive high schools are the most common form of public high schools in the United States and are meant to serve the needs of all students, as compared to the common practice in other nations in which examinations are used to sort students into different high schools for different populations...
public high school
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
in Robbinsville Township, in Mercer County
Mercer County, New Jersey
As of the census of 2000, there were 350,761 people, 125,807 households, and 86,303 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,552 people per square mile . There were 133,280 housing units at an average density of 590 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...
, which operates as part of the Robbinsville Public School District. As of the 2006-07 school year, only students in 12th grade from Washington Township were attending Lawrence High School
Lawrence High School (New Jersey)
Lawrence High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, serving grades 9-12 as part of the Lawrence Township Public Schools. LHS was built in 1967...
in Lawrence Township
Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey
Area residents often refer to all of Lawrence Township as Lawrenceville. Lawrenceville is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Lawrence Township...
, as part of the final year of a sending/receiving relationship
Sending/receiving relationship
A sending/receiving relationship is one in which a public school district sends some or all of its students to attend the schools of another district. This is often done to achieve costs savings in smaller districts or continues after districts have grown as part of a historical relationship...
with the Lawrence Township Public Schools
Lawrence Township Public Schools
The Lawrence Township Public Schools are comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States....
. With the start of the 2007-08 school year, the sending relationship has ended, and Robbinsville High School will serve all of Washington Township's high school students on site and graduated its first class of 150 students in June 2008. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer-based, non-profit association dedicated to educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation...
Commission on Secondary Schools since 2008.
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 740 students and 53 classroom teachers (on an FTE
Full-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 14.96.
The school was the 109th-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 not being ranked in 2008 out of 316 schools.
Facilities
The school was first opened in 2004 as a wing in the middle school to house ninth graders. There was a great struggle in the community to get the high school approved, and when it was approved, the vote was extremely close. The plan was to start with only freshmen and each year fill in an additional grade.In 2005, the new high school building opened.
It features a large common area with an atrium to serve as a cafeteria as well as several other purposes, an attached music wing, a central hallway which connects the commons area to the four main wings, the kitchen, the black box theatre, the 1,000-seat auditorium with a 12 feet (3.7 m) opera pit, the gymnasium wing (including a main gym, auxiliary gym, the weight room, locker rooms, and the trainer's office), and the main office as well as administrator's offices on the first floor and contains much technology including a recording studio. Outside, there is a rubberized turf football field along with a track, an aerial obstacle course, and numerous sports fields for all seasons .
Extracurricular activities
Extracurricular activities include sports, a Drama Club in which many students are actively involved, the yearbook club, newspaper club, Model United NationsModel 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....
, debate club, student and class governments, comic book and manga club, dance team, mock trial
Mock trial
A Mock Trial is an act or imitation trial. It is similar to a moot court, but mock trials simulate lower-court trials, while moot court simulates appellate court hearings. Attorneys preparing for a real trial might use a mock trial consisting of volunteers as role players to test theories or...
, literary magazine, Technology Student Association, Nemesis - FIRST Robotics Team 2590, the Interact Club, Chorus, Tri-M Musical Society, and the award-winning marching band
Marching band
Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
(and color guard), known as the Raven Regiment. They received the prestigious "Best Visuals" award at the NJ State Marching Band Competition in 2009, and won 4th out of 23 bands at the Northern states Marching Band Competition in 2010.
Nemesis - FIRST Robotics Team 2590: After a startup in December 2007, powered by a NASA rookie grant, Nemesis built a fast, reliable, gravity based robot, which was undefeated until the final rounds of the NJ Regional Competition, returning with the "Rookie All Star," "Highest Scoring Rookie," and "Finalist" awards. In April, with the support of the Robbinsville community, they flew to the FIRST National Competition in Atlanta, Georgia. Nemesis is organized like a High Tech company with an Executive Committee, Finance, Research and Development, Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Engineering, Marketing and Communications, and Website development teams and awarded the Entrepreneurship Award in 2009. Nemesis placed in the top 10 in the New Jersey, Boston & Washington DC Regionals and awarded the 2010 "Industrial Design" Award and 2011 "NJ Best Website Award". As a nationally certified Project Lead the Way High School, qualified students earn 3 college credits for successful completion of projects-based pre-engineering classes that teach fundamental problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. In 2011, RHS gained national recognition as an Exemplary Career and Technical Education (CTE) program by the National Association of State Directors of CTE for the implementation of PLTW and the FIRST
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
FIRST is an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1989 to develop ways to inspire students in engineering and technology fields...
Robotics Team.
The debate team finished an undefeated season in 2010 and was named Colonial Valley Conference champions. In 2011 the debate team renewed their title as champions.
Athletics
The Robbinsville High School Ravens compete in the Colonial Valley ConferenceColonial Valley Conference
The Colonial Valley Conference is an athletic conference in Central Jersey composed of a group of high schools located primarily in Mercer County, New Jersey, with one member school in Monmouth County and one in Middlesex County...
, which comprises high schools located in Mercer County
Mercer County, New Jersey
As of the census of 2000, there were 350,761 people, 125,807 households, and 86,303 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,552 people per square mile . There were 133,280 housing units at an average density of 590 per square mile...
, 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 2010 Census, the population was 630,380, up from 615,301 at the 2000 census. Its county seat is Freehold Borough. The most populous municipality is Middletown Township with...
and 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...
. The conference operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association
New 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:...
.
Sports offered at Robbinsville High School include Boy's and Girl's Tennis, Cross Country, Cheerleading, Track, Football, Wrestling, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Boy's and Girl's Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Boy's and Girls Soccer, Golf, Swimming, and Boy's and Girl's Lacrosse.
The girls soccer team made it to the 2006 NJ State Playoff tournament for Central Jersey Group I, defeating Middlesex High School
Middlesex High School
Middlesex High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in the center of Middlesex, Middlesex County, New Jersey. It is part of the Middlesex Board of Education...
2-1 in the first round, before falling to Metuchen High School
Metuchen High School
Metuchen High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Metuchen in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Metuchen School District...
by 2-0 in the semifinals.
The girls field hockey team qualified for the 2007 NJ State Playoff tournament for North II Group I, ending their regular season with a record of 12-4, and placed as the #3 seed in the tournament. The field hockey team secured the 4th seed in the 2007 Mercer County Tournament, and advanced to the semi-finals before falling to Stuart Country Day School
Stuart Country Day School
Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart is an independent all-girls Catholic country day school located in Princeton Township, New Jersey, that serves students from pre-school through grade 12...
in overtime, 2-1.
The boys cross country team qualified for the state finals in 2006 and 2007. The girls cross country team was 2nd in central New Jersey group I and qualified for states in 2007.
In 2007, the varsity football team finished the regular season with a 6-3 record and qualified for the NJSIAA playoffs, losing to Asbury Park High School
Asbury Park High School
Asbury Park High School is a comprehensive, four-year community public high school headquartered in a landmark building in Asbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, constructed during the New Deal as a model high school campus...
, the eventual Group I Champions, by a 41-0 score in the first round of the Central, Group I tournament.
In 2008, the girls' track and field team won both the NJSIAA Group I Central Championship and the Group I State Championship. The Boy Ice Hockey team won the Patriot Division and went to the Mercer County quarterfinals, NJSIAA Public B first round.
In cross country, the girls won the Group I state title in 2008 with Megan Flynn as the individual Group I winner that season, while the boys took the title in 2009.
In 2009, the girls' tennis team broke school records by defeating teams that were never before defeated by either the RHS boys or girls tennis team. Those schools include Steinert High School and Lawrence High School. They were also 12-7 at the end of the season, the first ever winning record for boys or girls tennis. They were also voted "Athletes of the Month" for the month of October. They went on to the Sectionals Tournament and advanced to the finals where they fell to Roselle Park High School
Roselle Park High School
Roselle Park High School is a four-year public high school located in Roselle Park, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Roselle Park School District. Starting as of 2007, Roselle Park High School serves grades 9-12...
in a heartbreaking match by a score of 3-2.
In the fall of 2010 both the boys and girls cross country teams captured the Patriot Division after deciding victories over Hopewell Valley Central High School at Mercer County Park on October 14, 2010. The boys finished with a dual meet record of 10-3 and the girls finished with a record of 12-1.
The NJSIAA recognized Robbinsville High School as the Group I winner of the Seventh Annual ShopRite Cup in 2009-10, based on the overall performances of the school's athletic teams which included first place finishes in Boys Cross‐Country and Girls Soccer, second place in Girls Cross‐Country, third-place finishes in Indoor Track & Field, Baseball (tie) and Wrestling (tie), along with finishing fourth in both Girls Indoor Relays and Girls Outdoor Track and Field, with an additional nine points awarded for not having any disqualifications during the three sports seasns.
The girls team won the track and field Central Jersey Group I title for the third time in four years, and the boys also won the sectional championships in 2011.
In 2008 the Robbinsville High School, the baseball team turned a 2007 season total of 2 wins into a 16-14 record, a Group I Central Jersey Sectional championship and a spot in the state final before losing to Lyndhurst High School
Lyndhurst High School
Lyndhurst High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Lyndhurst, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Lyndhurst School District....
. In 2009, the team advanced to the state tournament, but lost 9-7 to David Brearley High School
David Brearley High School
David Brearley High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Kenilworth in Union County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Kenilworth Public Schools...
. The 2010 team won a school-record 23 games and the program's second Group I, Central Jersey sectional championship. The 2011 team went 25-4, and won their first ever Mercer County Tournament championship, defeating Steinert High School
Steinert High School
Steinert High School is a four- year comprehensive public high school, one of three secondary high schools that are part of the Hamilton Township School District, located in Hamilton Township in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States...
for only the second time in school history (the first being earlier that season).
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:- Molly C. Avery, Principal
- Nicole Rossi, Assistant Principal
External links
- Robbinsville High School
- Washington Township Public Schools
- Data for the Washington 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...