Dunellen High School (DHS) is a four-year comprehensive

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that serves students in

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through

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s from Dunellen in Middlesex County,

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, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the

Dunellen Public Schools The Dunellen Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Dunellen, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020–21 school year, t ...

. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 349 students and 33.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 10.3:1.School data for Dunellen High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

History

The high school was completed in Fall 1935 by the

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as part of a project costing $80,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) and was scheduled to have an enrollment of 675, of which 20% came from

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. Prior to the completion of the district's own high school, students from Dunellen had attended Plainfield High School (in place from 1906 until 1925) and then Bound Brook High School (from 1925 to 1935). Over the years, the high school also accepted students from Green Brook Township, Manville and

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Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 132nd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in ''

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'' magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 112th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 110th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 166th in its 2008 rankings out of 316 schools statewide. The school was ranked 147th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 147th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 92 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.7%) and language arts literacy (92.2%) components of the

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(HSPA). The school was the 36th-ranked high school in New Jersey in the 2014 '' U.S. News & World Report'' Rankings of Best High Schools.

Extracurricular activities

Dunellen has a wide variety of other activities to choose from, including the Biology Club, Chess Club, Chess Team,

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, Drama Club, Exodus, French Club, Spanish Club,

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, Thespian Society and ''The Spectrum''.

Athletics

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. Accessed November 9, 2015. compete in the

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, comprised of public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County area, operating under the supervision of the

(NJSIAA). With 285 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range. The football team competes in Division 1B of the

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, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex,

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counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I North for football for 2018–2020. The school participates in a joint wrestling team with

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as the host school / lead agency. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The boys basketball team won the Group I state championships in 1943 (defeating runner-up

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in the tournament final), 1946 (vs.

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) and 1959 (vs.

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). The 1943 team won the Group I state championship after defeating Roxbury High School 35-31 in the semifinals and then moving on to beat Egg Harbor Township by a score of 43-20 in the playoff finals at

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. The 1993 football team finished the season with a 10-0-1 record after winning the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I state sectional title with a 12-3 victory against

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in the championship game. The Destroyers have made eight appearances to the Central Jersey Group I state final. Dunellen is placed in the Gold Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference for football. Dunellen ended its Thanksgiving Day rivalry with

in 2019, after 21 games in the annual series.

Administration

The school's principal is Paul Lynch. His core administration team includes the vice principal.Staff Directory
Dunellen High School. Accessed April 19, 2021.

References

External links

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School Data for the Dunellen Public Schools

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