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high school
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twelfth grade
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Ocean County
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, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Lakewood School District.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,458 students and 87.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.7:1. There were 1,106 students (75.9% of enrollment) eligible for
free lunch
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Students from Manchester Township had attended Lakewood High School as part of a
sending/receiving relationship
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, though by June 1964 overcrowding led the Lakewood School District to try to end the agreement under which 150 students from Manchester Township attended the Lakewood school. The students left in September 1976 when
Manchester Township High School
Manchester Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades in Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, as the lone secondary school of the Manch ...
opened.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 324th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in '' New Jersey Monthly'' magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had also been ranked 324th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 316th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 288th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Athletics
The Lakewood High School PinersLakewood High School New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in Division B South of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore.Shore Conference Realignment for 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 Shore Conference. Accessed November 15, 2020. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 916 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV South for football for 2018–2020. The school competes in the C-Central Division of the Shore Conference, in football, tennis, bowling, cheerleading, softball, baseball, wrestling, basketball, volleyball, track, cross country, and field hockey, with the most success over previous years coming in boys' basketball, boys soccer, and girls' and boys' track.
The boys' basketball team won the Group III state championships in 1967 (defeating West New York Memorial High School in the tournament final) and in 1975 (vs.
East Orange High School
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). The team won the Group III title in 1967 with a 74-51 win against Weehawken in the championship game played at
Atlantic City Convention Hall
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, becoming the first Ocean County program to win a state title. The 1975 team finished the season with a record of 28-1 after winning the Group III title in front of 4,000 spectators at
Brookdale Community College
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with a 71-70 championship game victory on two last-second free throws against an East Orange team that came into the game unbeaten in 39 games and having won group titles in each of the three previous seasons. The team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional title in 2010, defeating
Neptune High School
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in the sectional final by a score of 59-51.
The baseball team won the North I Group III state title in 1967, won the Group III championships in 1973 (vs.
Ridgefield Park High School
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) and 1980 (vs. Newark East Side High School), and won the Group IV title in 1984 (vs. West New York Memorial High School).
The girls spring track team was the Group III state champion in 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988 and 1989.
The boys track team won the Group III indoor track championship in 1985 and 1999. The girls team won the Group III title in 1988.
The 1986 football team football team finished the season with an 8–3 record after winning the South Jersey Group III state sectional title by defeating
Bridgeton High School
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by a score of 7-6 in the championship game.
In 1986, the boys' soccer team finished the season with a record of 15-6-1 after a 1–1 tie with Randolph High School made the team the Group III co-champion.
The boys track team won the Group III spring track state championship in 1987.
The boys' track team won the Group III state indoor relay championship in 1988.
The girls bowling team won the overall state championship in 1995.
Administration
The school's principal is Debra Long. Her core administration team includes four assistant principals.
Canadian football
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linebacker
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for the
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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of the
Canadian Football League
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.
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, first
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.
* Melvin Cottrell (1929-2002), former mayor of Jackson Township who served in the
New Jersey General Assembly
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Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts for ...
from 1992 until his death.
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Michael Cudlitz
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(born 1964), actor who has appeared in '' Band of Brothers'' and the TV shows ''
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in 1964 and 1965.
* William Goldstein (born 1942), composer, recording artist, arts philosopher and improvisational pianist
* Virginia E. Haines (born 1946, class of 1964), politician who serves on the
Ocean County
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New Jersey General Assembly
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from 1992 to 1994 and as Executive Director of the
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from 1994 to 2002.
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(born 1962),
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and member of the
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Negro league baseball
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pitcher
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from 1938 to 1940.
* Chapelle Russell, (class of 2015), football player
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Rubby Sherr
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(1913-2013),
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physicist who participated in
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at
Los Alamos, New Mexico
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.
* Chris Smith (born 1987), basketball player for
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of the Israeli
Liga Leumit
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.
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J. R. Smith
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(born 1985),
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. Accessed March 3, 2007. "As a sophomore attended Lakewood High School (N.J.), and aided his squad to a 23-6 record and the South Jersey Group 3 championship, averaged 27.0 ppg., 8.0 rpg. and 3.0 bpg."