Memorial High School is a comprehensive

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in Millville in

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, United States, operated as part of the

Millville Public Schools Millville Public Schools is a school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten-twelfth grade from the city of Millville, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. The district is one of 31 former Abbott districts statewide that w ...

. The school was built in 1925 and used as the Millville High School from 1925-1964 until the

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was built. Currently it is being used as a Junior High School to house the

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and half of the

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. Students from Woodbine attend the district's high schools as part of a

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students also attend the district's high schools, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the

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. Commercial Township and Lawrence Township also send students to the district's high schools; The four sending districts filed suit in 2009, challenging the way in which the Millville district charges for students from outside the district to attend the school. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 526 students and 53.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 9.9:1. There were 284 students (54.0% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 32 (6.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Memorial High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

History

The school is a memorial to those who lost their lives in

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; there were 20 Millville residents who died during their service during the war. A bronze plaque next to the school's auditorium states that the school was "Dedicated in Memory of the Men from Millville who made the Supreme Sacrifice in the World War.". Millville High School is the home of the Millville Thunderbolts. In 2016 the school board decided to create a single principal position for all high school students as it had plans to consolidate the two high schools. As part of a $110 million expansion project overseen by the

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and scheduled to start in 2017, the capacity of Millville High will be doubled to accommodate up to 2,300 students, allowing all freshmen and sophomore classes that had been at Memorial High School to be consolidated at the Senior High School building.Smith, Joseph P
"Millville planners get look at high school expansion"
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'', March 15, 2016. "Schematic designs submitted to New Jersey for a proposed $110 million Millville Senior High School expansion were laid out before city planners Monday night.... On completion, the district will be able to consolidate at the senior high all freshman classes and those sophomore classes now in Memorial High School.... Additional space will allow the student population to increase from 1,200 now, approximately, to about 2,300."

References

External links

Memorial High School web pagesMillville Public Schools
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School Data for the Millville Public Schools

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