East Brunswick High School is a comprehensive

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serving students in tenth through

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s in East Brunswick Township, in Middlesex County,

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, United States, operating as part of East Brunswick Public Schools. The school was recognized by the

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in the 1990–91 school year. The school has been accredited by the

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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1965.East Brunswick High School

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of 12.4:1. There were 248 students (12.3% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 77 (3.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for East Brunswick High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

History

East Brunswick High School opened for the 1958–59 school year. Previously, students living in the Township had attended South River High School in neighboring South River. In that first year, the school housed grades six, seven, eight and nine. Those four classes occupied the school until June 1962, when the original 9th graders became its first graduating class and the school contained grades nine through twelve. Because the school exceeded its intended capacity of 1,700 students, freshmen were dropped into the town's two junior high schools in 1967, later one junior high school. Enrollment reached a peak of about 2,600 in 1973. By 1990, the school had fewer than 2,000 students, falling to around 1,700 by 1997. Additions to the school were built in 1965, 1970 and 2001, in efforts to ease overcrowding. The 2001 expansion included a second level of classrooms, over the administrative offices; a corridor connecting three "buildings" that had previously been connected only by a covered outdoor walkway; and expanded facilities for the cafeteria, library, arts and athletic departments. The school day at East Brunswick High School used to begin at 7:26 am and ended at 2:12 pm. Initiated in the 2022-23 school year, school now begins at 8:00 am and ends at 2:45pm. It operates its daily bell schedule on an 8-period "block schedule" system (4 80 minute periods per day), with an additional homeroom period occurring between the first two class periods of each day. At the beginning of the 2005–06 school year, for security reasons, the school instituted an ID system in which the students must wear their IDs at all times.

Awards, recognition and rankings

East Brunswick High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the

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, the highest award an American school can receive, during the 1990–91 school year. In the 2014 "America's Top High School", ''

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'' ranked the school 130th overall in the nation. In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", ''

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'' ranked the school 484th among participating public high schools and 41st among schools in New Jersey. In the 2012 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by ''

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'', the school was ranked 45th in New Jersey, after being ranked 48th statewide in 2011. In the May 22, 2007, issue of ''

'', ranking the country's top high schools, East Brunswick High School was listed in 997th place, the 30th-highest ranked school in New Jersey. The school was ranked 886th in the May 8, 2006, issue of ''Newsweek'', listing the "Top 1,200 High Schools in The United States". For the 1996–97 school year, East Brunswick High School was named a "Star School" by the

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, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve. In the April 1996 issue, the high school was cited as best in the state by ''

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'' magazine.A Message from the Principal
, accessed January 13, 2007. During the 2001–02 school year, East Brunswick High School's Intergenerational Program was honored by the Best Practices Program in the state of New Jersey. The school was the 47th-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 121st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 71st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 76th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 60th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. The Schooldigger.com website ranked the school tied for 109th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 35 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (87.9%) and language arts literacy (94.4%) components of the

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(HSPA).

Curriculum and grading

In addition to regular, honors, and Advanced Placement classes, the curriculum includes numerous electives in humanities, business, visual arts, music, drama, family and consumer science, and technology education. Two Cooperative Education programs are available, as well as a shared time program at the East Brunswick campus of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High Schools. Students are encouraged to elect courses outside their major interests. Students may receive credit for private music lessons. The school district had all its staff input their students' grades into a computer program called InteGrade Pro. Starting with the 2009–10 school year, InteGrade was replaced with a system known as Genesis, which provides a unified, wholly online attendance and grading system. Genesis also features auto-updating grades, a huge improvement over the previous online component to the InteGrade system, ParentConnect, which only updated once daily. If a teacher finds the need to, progress reports will be mailed to students' homes at a designated date near the middle of a quarter. At the end of a quarter, the grades are exported by teachers to administration, where they are formally presented to the parents/guardians of students through a formal report card. The Board of Education changed the grading system to a "quality point" type of system where grades are equal to a number (GPA) and the GPA from the four quarters plus midterms (and/or finals) are averaged as well. Grade Point Average calculations are weighted three different ways: Standard scale, Honors Scale and AP scale. The Honors Scale transposes GPA values to their respective letter grades by a factor of 1.15, while the AP scale transposes by a factor of 1.25.EBHS Student Handbook 2007-2008
. Accessed October 9, 2007.

Extracurricular activities

East Brunswick High School offers a full range of clubs and events. The school is perhaps most well known for its success in the national We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution competition, for which it won the national title in 1998, and then again three years in a row from 2004 to 2006. The team was the state champion in 2019–20. Through 2005, the team won the We The People state competition in 17 of the program's first 18 years. Other clubs include

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(FBLA),

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, Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), Video Newsmakers, Math Team, Academic Team, Pre-medical Club, Science League, Code Club, ''Clarion'' (school newspaper), ''Emerald'' (yearbook), Drama Club, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, Men's Choir, Acabellas, Bella Voce, Jazz and R&B Choir, Black Student Union, Asian American Club, Spanish Club, French Club, German Club, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Club, Amnesty International Club, Psychology Club, SAVE Club (Students Against Violating the Environment), Anime Club, and various academic honor societies. East Brunswick High School is one of a growing number of schools in the country that has various religious clubs such as According to Jesus (A2J, formerly known as Bible Club), Islamic Club, Coptic Orthodox Club and the Jewish Student Union. Since 2019, East Brunswick High School has been functioning as a workspace for Astraea Robotics,

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Team 6897.

Athletics

The East Brunswick High School BearsEast Brunswick High School

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the

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, which is comprised of public and private high schools in the Middlesex County area and operates under the supervision of the

. With 2,080 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range. The football team competes in Division 5C of the Big Central Football Conference, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex,

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and Warren counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group V South for football for 2018–2020. The school participates as the host school / lead agency for a joint ice hockey team with South River High School and Spotswood High School. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group IV state championship in 1985 The girls soccer team won the Group IV state championship in 1986 (against Westfield High School in the finals), 1987 (vs. Westfield), 1989 (vs. Westfield), 1990 (as co-champion with

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), 1992 (vs. Westfield), 1994 (vs. Randolph High School), 1996 (vs. Westfield), 2001 (vs. Clifton High School). The program's eight state titles are tied for sixth-most in the state. A goal scored in the last minute of play in regulation gave the 1986 team a 1–0 win again Westfield in the Group IV championship game and a 25–0 record for the season. The 2001 team finished the season with a 20–2 record after winning the Group IV title with a 1–0 win against Clifton in the championship game played at

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on a goal scored by

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, her 38th that year. From 1979 to 2019, the Bears won 36 of the 41 times the Middlesex County Tournament was played, including 21 consecutive championships from 1980 to 2000, with their only finals losses coming in 1979, 2002 and 2015 in addition to missing the finals in two other seasons. The Bears won five consecutive Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament titles, including a 2–1 victory over Old Bridge in 2007 and a 3–0 win over Bishop Ahr in 2008. East Brunswick won the Group IV state boys tennis championship in 1992 (defeating Livingston High School in the final match of the tournament), 2004 (vs.

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), 2021 (vs. Bergen County Technical High School), and 2022 (vs. Westfield High School). The team won the inaugural Tournament of Champions in 1992 against runner-up

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, and were ToC finalists in 2004, 2021, and 2022. In 2022, the team completed a clean sweep of the GMC tournament, winning all five flights as part of the most dominant run in tournament history. The boys' bowling team won the overall state championship in 1997, and the Group IV title in 2017 and 2018. The team won the Group IV state championship and the overall Tournament of Champions in 2017. The boys volleyball team won the overall state championship in 1999 (defeating

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of Metuchen in the final match of the tournament), 2000 (vs. Lakeland Regional High School), 2001 (vs. Clifton High School), 2003 (vs. St. Joseph's of Metuchen), 2004 (vs.

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) and 2007 (vs. St. Peter's Preparatory School). The program's five state titles are ranked third in the state. The team won the 2007 NJSIAA South Jersey sectional championship with a 25–19, 31–29 victory over Southern Regional High School. The team went on to win the overall state title, defeating St. Peter's Preparatory School, 25–21, 25–22. The girls basketball team won the Group IV state championship in 1999, defeating Columbia High School by a score of 63–57 in the tournament final and advanced to the Tournament of Champions as the third seed, beating sixth-seed Paterson Catholic High School 58–43 in the first round before falling to number-two West Morris Mendham High School 71–40 in the semifinals to finish the season with a 28–4 record. The football team won the Central Jersey Group IV state sectional championships in 2004 and 2009. The team won their first playoff-era title with a 17–12 win against Jackson High School in the finals of the Central Jersey Group IV tournament. East Brunswick won the Central Jersey Group IV state sectional title in the 2009 season, defeating

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by a score of 9–0, earning the program its first sectional championship since 2004. In 2018, East Brunswick and Old Bridge High School played their 25th and final Thanksgiving Day game, with Old Bridge winning 22 of the 25 games. The series started after Cedar Ridge High School and Madison Central High School, which had played their own Thanksgiving Day game, were merged in 1994 to create Old Bridge High School. The two schools will continue to have a "Battle of Route 18" that will be played as part of the regular schedule. The girls tennis team won the Group IV state championship in 2006 (against J. P. Stevens High School in the final match of the tournament), 2008 (vs.

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) and 2019 (vs. Livingston High School). The team won the Tournament of Champions in 2008 (against runner-up

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) and 2019 (vs.

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). After winning their second Group IV championship in 2008, the girls' tennis team won the Tournament of Champions, defeating Millburn High School and ending that school's streak of winning 98 consecutive matches. The girls' tennis team won the Greater Middlesex Conference title for nine consecutive years from 2006 to 2014. The girls' bowling team won the Group IV title in the 2008 season, after bowling a 1077 in the state final. The boys track team won the spring track state championship in Group IV in 2010 (as co-champion). The boys track team won the indoor relay championship in Group IV in 2011.

Controversies

;Football coach prayer controversy On October 7, 2005, shortly after being informed by then-Superintendent of Schools Jo Ann Magistro that he would not be permitted to join his football team in prayer as he had done in the past and that some parents had complained about the prayers, East Brunswick High School coach Marcus Borden resigned from his position. Borden, also a tenured Spanish teacher,McKenzie, Doug
"EBHS coach's resignation sparks nationwide debate; Borden steps down after being told not to pray with his team"
''East Brunswick Sentinel'', October 13, 2005. Accessed December 29, 2020. "East Brunswick High School's veteran football coach Marcus Borden resigned from his position after 23 years on Friday after being told by the district's superintendent that he could no longer lead his team in prayer prior to its games." had by then had a 23-year career with East Brunswick Public Schools. District spokeswoman Trish LaDuca told the East Brunswick newspaper ''

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'' that a "representative of the school district cannot constitutionally initiate prayer, encourage it or lead it."via

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"Coach resigns after high school bans pregame prayer"

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, October 11, 2005. Accessed August 19, 2014. The East Brunswick football team lost its game in a shutout on the day Borden resigned. Following Borden's resignation, nearly 100 players, parents, and coaches arrived at his house on a rainy day pleading for his return. Borden agreed and received ''pro bono'' legal representation the next week.Grossfeld, Stan
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'', November 7, 2006. Accessed August 19, 2014. He filed a lawsuit against the district on November 23 alleging that it was violating his constitutional rights; lawyer Ronald Riccio represented Borden. Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh of the

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ruled on July 26, 2006, that Borden could bow his head and bend his knee if the team captains (i.e., students) led the players in prayer. However, this decision was overturned on April 15, 2008, by a unanimous decision in the

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, in which Judge D. Michael Fisher concluded that "a reasonable observer would conclude that he is continuing to endorse religion when he bows his head during the pre-meal grace and takes a knee with his team in the locker room while they pray." ;School shooting threat in 2007 In May 2007, a 16-year-old male student from EBHS posted a school shooting threat on the internet and was arrested on Monday morning before school once people had noticed it. After investigating the student's home, no weapons were found inside and police determined it was only a hoax. ;Forgery incident In February 2019, a student from EBHS

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a letter on social media and in a bathroom at the school that had the signature of Superintendent Victor Valeski on it. The forged letter stated that Valeski tried smoking (vaping) an

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and liked it and as a result, had decided to reverse and replace a vaping policy in which the new policy would allow students to vape in the bathroom/on school grounds only once with no consequences, but after being caught using it a second time, would face a suspension. After this forged letter was found, Valeski said the student would likely be suspended but not face any criminal charges. ;Student fights a Muslim student In April 2019, a female white student pulled off a

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(headscarf) of a female Muslim student in a physical fight in the student lounge. The female white student was criminally charged and arrested with simple assault and harassment after an investigation by the East Brunswick Police Department and the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office. Despite this, she was not charged with a bias or hate crime. The Muslim student was not charged with anything, although she was disciplined along with the female white student and both girls were absent from school the next day. The video of the fight quickly went viral online and on social media.

Administration

The High School's principal is Michael W. Vinella. His administration team includes three assistant principals.

Notable alumni

* Michael Barkann (born 1960, class of 1978), television personality,

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. * Amir Bell (born 1996), basketball player for Hapoel Be'er Sheva B.C. of the

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. * Jeanie Bryson (born 1958), singer whose repertoire features

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, pop and

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music. * Dedrick Dodge (born 1965),

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for eight

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seasons, from 1991 to 1998. *

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(born 1983), actor, whose films include '' The Squid and the Whale'', ''

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'' and ''Now You See Me''. * Bryan Fortay (born 1971, class of 1989), former football

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who played for the Frankfurt Galaxy of the

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and the Miami Hooters of the

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. * Ghilene Joseph (born 1997),

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who plays as a

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/ forward for the Guyana women's national team. *

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(born 1980, class of 1997), singer and guitarist of Streetlight Manifesto and formerly Catch 22. * Joanne Lipman (born 1961), founding editor-in-chief of '' Conde Nast Portfolio'' and former deputy managing editor of ''

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''. * Sam Mattis (born 1994, class of 2012), Olympian

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athlete who competes in the

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and set the high school state record with a throw of . * Anne Milgram, attorney, politician, legal thinker and academic, who served as the 57th

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. * Josh Miller (born 1970),

punter. * Adam Mitzner (born 1964, class of 1982), practicing attorney and writer of

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s. *

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(born 1987),

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activist. *

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champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist. * Michael Seibel (born 1982, class of 2000), CEO of YCombinator. * Brian Selznick (born 1966, class of 1984), author and illustrator best known for his book '' The Invention of Hugo Cabret''. *

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(born 1968, class of 1986), multiple

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nominated lyricist and collaborator with

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and

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. * Cenk Uygur (born 1970), radio talk show host of ''

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'' and columnist for ''

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''. *

Jim Vallely James Vallely (born August 30, 1954) is an American television producer, and screenwriter. He was a writer and consulting producerDunphy, John"E.B. native wins Emmy for best comedy writing" ''East Brunswick Sentinel'', September 29, 2005. Acce ...

(born 1954, class of 1972),

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-winning writer '' Golden Girls'' and ''

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''. * Stefan Weisman (born 1970), composer. * Dave Wohl (born 1949), assistant general manager of the

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. *

Aaron Yoo Aaron Yoo (born May 12, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for appearing in the films '' Disturbia'' (2007), '' 21'' (2008), and ''Friday the 13th'' (2009), as well as playing Russell Kwon in the sci-fi series ''The Tomorrow People'' ( ...

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, ''

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''. Accessed April 1, 2008.

References

External links

East Brunswick High School website
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School Data for the East Brunswick Public Schools

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