Millville Senior High School is a comprehensive community

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located in Millville, in

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, United States, serving students in

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and

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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 has been accredited by the

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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1943.

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sends 180 students who attend the district's high schools, as part of a

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with the

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. Commercial Township and Lawrence Township also send students to the district's high schools; The 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. Students from Woodbine had attended the district's high schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship, before the Woodbine district switched to have students attend

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starting with freshmen starting school in the 2013–14 school year. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,112 students and 68.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 16.4:1. There were 549 students (49.4% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 94 (8.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Millville Senior High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

History

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.Smith, Joseph P
"Millville moving to 1 high school principal position"
'' The Daily Journal'', April 26, 2016. Accessed October 27, 2021. "The city school system wants its two high schools operating under one principal next year as it looks ahead to Millville Senior High School becoming a four-year institution. The Board of Education on Monday night unanimously approved creating a position for a principal with responsibility for ninth through 12th grades." That year Kathy Procopio, the principal, chose to retire. David Gentile, the superintendent, stated that the retirement made the district's principal consolidation plans more complex. As part of a $114.5 million expansion project overseen by the

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and scheduled to start in 2017, the school's capacity will be doubled to accommodate up to 2,300 students, allowing all of the freshmen and sophomore classes that had been at Memorial High School to be consolidated at the Senior High School building; for the 2017–18 school year, all high school students were shifted into Millville High School.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 291st-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 308th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 306th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 289th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 295th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Millville High School is a participant in the

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Toys in Space program, a joint project of American and Russian students to learn the science behind designing a toy, and about the study of space.

Athletics

The Millville Senior High School ThunderboltsMillville Senior High School

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the American Division of the

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, an athletic conference comprised of parochial and public high schools located in

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, Cumberland and

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counties that operates under the supervision of the

(NJSIAA). With 1,260 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022-23 school year as South, Group 4 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 the American Division of the 94-team

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superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as South, Group 4 for football for 2022-23. Since 1893,

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, in

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, has participated in an annual Thanksgiving football game with Millville High School. The rivalry is the one of the oldest public high school rivalries in the United States and the state's oldest, with Vineland leading the series 64-63-19, heading into the 2017 game. The rivalry with Vineland was listed at 6th on

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's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". The boys' tennis team was the state overall co-champion in 1950 with

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, the first year that the state title was determined by playoffs. The boys track team won the Group IV spring track state championship in 1970, 1998 (as co-champion), 1999 and 2001. The football team won the NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV state sectional title in 1975 and the South Jersey Group V title in 2016. The 1975 team finished the season with an 11-0 record after winning the South Jersey Group IV state sectional title by defeating defending champion

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22-12 in the championship game to snap Brick's 20-game winning streak. The team won the South Jersey Group V state sectional championship in 2016, defeating

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by a score of 22–16 in the tournament final. Field hockey coach Claudia E. McCarthy, inducted into the New Jersey Coaches Hall of Fame in 1990, won her 500th game in 2011 in her 41st season as a coach, with a win against

. She became the fifth coach to reach 500 field hockey victories. The girls track team won the indoor relay state championship in Group IV in 2019. The girls spring track team was the Group IV state champion in 2019.

Administration

The principal is Jaime Sutton. Her administration team includes three vice principals.

Notable alumni

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(born 1996, class of 2015),

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for the

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. * Fred Pierce Corson (1896–1985, class of 1913),

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of the

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and

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.Our People of the Century - Millville's Class of 1913: Fame, Power, Influence Await Three High School Graduates"
,

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. Accessed December 6, 2007. "The legendary Millville High School Class of 1913 turned out a business leader, a political leader, and a religious leader. Collectively known as the 'Big Three,' William M. Dougherty, Leon Henderson, and Bishop Fred Pierce Corson, all schoolboy chums, went on to shape a good chunk of 20th century America." *

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(born 1971, class of 1989), guitarist who had played with the heavy metal band

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. *

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(1957–2019) played defensive tackle for the

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in 1981. *

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(1895–1986), administrator of the

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from 1941 to 1942. * Dwayne Hendricks (born 1986), former football

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. *

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(born 1998, class of 2017),

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for the

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. * R. Bruce Land (born 1950, class of 1968), politician and former corrections officer who represented the 1st Legislative District in the

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from 2016 to 2020. *

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(born 1951), former utility infielder who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball. *

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(born 1958),

who played in the NFL for the

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. * Steve Romanik (1924–2009, class of 1942), NFL quarterback from 1950-1954 for the

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and

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. *

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(born 1968), head coach of the

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team. *

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(born 1991), MLB center fielder for the

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. *

Ashleigh Udalovas Ashleigh Udalovas (born January 18, 1988) held the title of Miss New Jersey 2010 and competed in the Miss America 2011 Pageant on January 15, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was the 1st runner-up at the Miss New Jersey 2009 pageant and competed i ...

(born 1988),

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2010."BEN column — Holly City Midgets roll; water rates; ode to Shep; Nelda Jane ‘Iron Mama’; Scottie Bailey remembered"
''

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'', October 5, 2010. Accessed November 13, 2018. "The Greater Millville Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce its selection as the Outstanding Citizen for October is Ashleigh Udalovas, Rowan University student, graduate of Millville High School and reigning Miss New Jersey."

References

External links

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