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in Keyport, in Monmouth County,

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, United States, serving students in

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through

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s, operated as the lone secondary school of the Keyport Public Schools. Students from Union Beach attend the high school as part of a

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with the

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. The existing three-story building was constructed in 1927. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 346 students and 35.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 9.7:1. There were 133 students (38.4% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 15 (4.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Keyport High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

History

The high school opened for the 1927-28 school year with a building constructed at a cost of $180,000 (equivalent to $ million in ), at which time students from Raritan Township (since renamed as Hazlet) began attending the high school as part of a

. By 1931, the school had 132 out-of-district students in attendance, including 62 from Union Beach, 47 from Raritatn Township and 21 from Holmdel Township.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 216th-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 226th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 249th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 265th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 207th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Athletics

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in Division B Central of the

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, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in

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and Ocean counties along the

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.Shore Conference Realignment for 2018-2019 and 2019-2020

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(NJSIAA). With 285 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range. The school's co-op team with Henry Hudson Regional was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I South for football for 2018–2020. Keyport High School's interscholastic sports include: football, basketball, cheerleading for football/basketball, field hockey, wrestling, baseball, softball, track and field, cross country, indoor track, soccer, and tennis. The school participates as the host school / lead agency for joint cooperative girls soccer, boys / girls volleyball and wrestling teams with

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, while Henry Hudson is the host school for cross country running, boys / girls tennis and winter track teams. Keyport is also the lead agency / host school for joint field hockey and football teams with

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. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The football program, led by Coach Michael "Chic" Ciccoteli is probably the school's most notable. For the 2002-03 the team was "On the Road," as the home field was under construction. The Keyport Red Raiders went on to play an undefeated season and win their state championship. The following season also proved successful. Every game was won except the championship, giving the team a 21–1 record for the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons. The football team has won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 1987, 1988, 1992, 1998, 1999 and 2002. The 1992 team finished the season with a 9-2 record after scoring the lone touchdown of the game in a 6-2 win against

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for the Central Jersey Group I championship. The team won the Central Jersey, Group I state sectional title in 1999 with a 21–0 shutout of South River High School. The team repeated in 2002 with a 37–6 win against South River High School. The boys' basketball team took the Group II state championship in 1933, winning by a score of 26-22 in the championship game against a

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team that came into the finals with a 21-game winning streak. In 2004, the team won the Central Jersey Group I sectional championship, topping

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53-40 in the final game of the tournament. The baseball team won the Central Jersey Group II sectional title in 1961. The team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 2001 with a 10-0 win over Highland Park High School. The field hockey team won the Central Jersey, Group I state sectional title in 1978 and 1979. The girls basketball team won the Group I title in 1983 (vs.

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) and 1995 (vs.

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). The 1983 team finished the season with a 24-5 record after winning the Group I state title by defeating New Providence by a score of 54-53 in the championship game played at the

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. The 1995 team held off a rally by Bogota to win the Group I championship game by a score of 52-46 and advanced to the Tournament of Champions seeded sixth before falling to third-seeded

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46-37 in the quarterfinals to finish the season with a record of 21-6. The wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional title in 1983 The girls bowling team won the Group I state championship in 2009.

Clubs

Keyport High School clubs include:

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, Raiders Inc., Student Council, SAC, Lifeline/VIPS, Drama, Literary Magazine, and Yearbook.

Administration

The school's principal is Michael P. Waters Sr., who is joined on his administration team by an assistant principal / athletic director.''Student Handbook 2019-2020''
Keyport High School. Accessed November 11, 2019.

Notable alumni

* Piotr Czech (born 1986), NFL placekicker. * John Earle (born 1968, class of 1987),

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for the

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and judge on

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(1901–1972), songwriter and bandleader. * Sayra Fischer Lebenthal (1898-1994; class of 1915), Wall Street banker credited for introducing the idea of selling small lots of municipal bonds to individual investors.Jaeger, Lauren
"Five are inducted into Hall of Fame"
''The Independent'', October 12, 1994. Accessed June 6, 2016. "The late Sayra Fischer Lebenthal (class of 1915), born in Keyport in 1898, was only one of two women to graduate with a law degree from Syracuse University in 1920."

References

External links

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