Piscataway High School is a four-year comprehensive community

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serving students in

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through

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s from

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in Middlesex County,

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, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the

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. The school is accredited by the

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and has been accredited by the

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Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1963.Piscataway Township High School

Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed February 9, 2022. Piscataway Township High School is known for its football program; three former players were drafted in the first round of the

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draft in two years, the first time in history that such an event has occurred. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,143 students and 154.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 13.9:1. There were 538 students (25.1% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 212 (9.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Piscataway Township High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

Awards, recognition and honors

The school has received the following notable awards and recognitions. *Governor's School of Excellence, November 21, 2003 *Best Practice Award, 2002-03 for Comfort Zone *Best Practice Award, 2004-05 for Life Skills and Beyond *Golden Achievement Award, 2004 *Best Practice Award, 2005-06 for Senior Citizens Outreach Program & Exchange (SCOPE) *

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, 2005. First school in the state to be granted full membership. *National AVID School Certified School, 2006 *Amistad Fellow, 2006 Piscataway High School received an "A" and was ranked "above average to excellent" in a recent issue of ''Inside Jersey'' Magazine, a publication of ''

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''. The article, entitled "New Jersey's Top Performing Public High Schools," rated schools throughout the state based on academic achievement and test score growth over a four-year period. Piscataway High School was one of only nine schools out of 27 in Middlesex County to be given an "A" rating. The school was the 144th-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 217th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 140th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 146th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 177th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 151st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 15 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (84.0%) and language arts literacy (93.0%) components of the

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(HSPA).

Curriculum

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(AP) courses are offered in

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, and

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. Its radio station is

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, also known as 90.3, "The Pulse of Piscataway", with students broadcasting for an hour in the morning and three hours in the afternoon, while students from

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broadcast on the station during the other hours.

Notable legal cases

Two notable legal cases have originated at Piscataway High School.

New Jersey v. T. L. O.

In 1984, the school was involved in a case that made it to the

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, known only by the initials T. L. O., was caught by a teacher smoking in a bathroom with another girl at the high school. The teacher took both students to the Principal's Office where they met with Assistant Vice Principal Theodore Choplick. In a search of T. L. O.'s purse, Choplick observed a pack of cigarettes, and while removing the cigarettes he noticed a package of rolling papers, often closely tied to the use of marijuana. Choplick then began a more thorough search for the evidence of drugs, which revealed a small amount of marijuana, a pipe, empty plastic bags, a large quantity of money in $1 bills, an index card that appeared to list students who owed T. L. O. money, and two letters that implicated T. L. O. in being a drug dealer. Choplick then notified T. L. O.'s mother and the police, to whom he turned over the evidence of drug dealing. The police requested the mother to take her daughter to police headquarters, where T. L. O. confessed to selling marijuana at the high school. Using the confession and the evidence obtained by Choplick's search, the State brought delinquency charges against T. L. O. in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Middlesex County. T. L. O. claimed the assistant principal's search violated the Fourth Amendment. She moved to suppress the evidence found in her purse as well as her confession, arguing, the evidence was "

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." The Juvenile Court denied the motion to suppress. Although the court concluded that the Fourth Amendment did apply to searches carried out by school officials, it held: :"a school official may properly conduct a search of a student's person if the official has a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or is in the process of being committed, or reasonable cause to believe that the search is necessary to maintain school discipline or enforce school policies." Id., at 341, 428 A. 2d, at 1333 (emphasis in original). The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the search and seizure by school officials without a warrant was constitutional, as long as the search is deemed reasonable. This overturned the

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ruling.

Piscataway Board of Education v. Sharon Taxman

Piscataway Board of Education v. Taxman, 91 F.3d 1547 (3d Cir. 1996) was a racial discrimination case begun in 1989. The school board of Piscataway, New Jersey needed to eliminate a teaching position from the high school Business Education department. Under New Jersey state law, tenured teachers have to be laid off in reverse order of seniority. The newest tenured teachers, Sharon Taxman and Debra Williams, white and African-American respectively, had started working at the school on the same day. In the interest of maintaining racial diversity (Williams was the only black teacher in the department, and 50% of the students were minorities), the school board voted to lay off Taxman, even though she had a bachelor's degree and Williams had a master's degree. Taxman complained to the

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, saying that the board had violated

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. The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Taxman. The school board appealed to the United States Supreme Court and a hearing was scheduled for January 1998, but an agreement was reached to pay Taxman a $435,000 settlement before the case could be heard by the court, with a majority of the money coming from civil rights organizations that feared that the Supreme Court could use the case as a justification to eliminate the practice of affirmative action. Taxman was subsequently rehired. Both teachers returned to teaching in Piscataway. Williams went back to the high school, while Taxman was reassigned to Conackamack Middle School.

Athletics

The Piscataway High School teams are known as the Chiefs and wear the school colors of black and gold.Piscataway High School

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. The school is primarily known for football, basketball, and volleyball. The Chiefs compete in the

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(GMC), which is comprised of public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County area and operates under the supervision of the

(NJSIAA). With 1,715 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 5D of the

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, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex,

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and

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counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group V North for football for 2018–2020. The football team has won the Central Jersey Group IV titles in 1974, 1981 and 2002, and won the North II Group IV state sectional championships in 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2011, the Central Group V title in 2016 and the North II Group V in 2018. The 1974 team won in one of the first seven games of the playoff era, defeating

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by a score of 14-7 in the championship game played indoors at Atlantic City Conventional Hall. In 1981, the team won the Central Jersey Group IV title with a 20-0 win against

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in the finals. The 2002 team won the Central Jersey Group IV sectional title with a 14-7 win against

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, earning consideration from the ''

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'' as one of "the best in GMC history".Tufaro, Greg
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'', August 15, 2018. Accessed November 20, 2020. "Piscataway 2002 (North 2 Group IV)... Piscataway defeated Hunterdon Central 20-7 for the sectional title.... Piscataway 2004 (North 2 Group IV) Future NFL stars Malcolm Jenkins, Kyle Wilson and Anthony Davis helped the Chiefs outscore opponents 405-65 on the way to an unblemished 12-0 record.... Piscataway edged Phillipsburg 27-26 in overtime for the sectional championship." In 2004, the team finished with a 12-0 record after winning the North II Group IV title against Phillipsburg High School in overtime by a score of 27-26. In 2008, the team finished the season at 11-1 after winning the North II Group IV state sectional title by a score of 38-0 in the championship game against

, after losing to them in the finals in 2007. Piscataway football won the 2010 North II Group IV state sectional title by a score of 34–6 over Hunterdon Central; The Chiefs finished the season undefeated at 12-0, marking the third time the team has gone undefeated in school history, and set a program record with 412 points scored that season. In 2011, Piscataway beat Elizabeth High School 41–34 with 17 seconds left to earn the North II Group IV title for the Chiefs. 2011 marked the 15th consecutive year that Piscataway had made the playoffs. In 2016, the team won the Central Jersey Group V title with a 34–13 win against

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in the tournament final. In 2018, the team won the North II Group V state sectional championship with a 28-7 win against Union City High School and went on to finish the season with a 13-0 record with a 31-21 win against Ridgewood High School in the North Group V bowl game. Piscataway's football prowess both against other high school teams and in putting players into the NFL has led to the school's colloquial title, "NFL High School." During the 2004–05 academic year, seven future NFL players played for Piscataway at the same time. In a two-year span, three Piscataway players were drafted in the first round of the NFL draft- the first high school in history with such a record.Jackson, Dallas
"Piscataway (N.J.) turning into NFL High"
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, April 22, 2010. Accessed August 10, 2014. "Piscataway football coach Dan Higgins knows he's had plenty of talent in his 20 years at the New Jersey school. His handful of state championships trophies, dozens of college recruits and a few alums in the NFL tell him that. But when he found out his program was just the fourth high school to have two former players selected in the first round of the same NFL Draft, even he was stunned.... It's enough to make Piscataway, a public school in Central Jersey with roughly 2,000 students, be known as NFL High." The boys' basketball team won the Group IV state title in 1994, defeating

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by a score of 60-47 in the finals of the tournament. The 2008 boys' basketball team won the North II, Group IV state sectional championship with a 58–47 win over Linden High School in the tournament final. In the program's third appearance in the finals, the 1997 girls basketball team won the Group IV state championship with a 59-51 victory against Elizabeth High School in the tournament final and advanced into the Tournament of Champions as the second seed, edging third-seeded

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by a score of 45-44 in the semifinals before falling to top-seed St. John Vianney High School 53-47 in the finals at the

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to finish the season with a record of 29-2. The girls' outdoor track and field team won the Group IV state championship in 2005. The girls' track team won the Group IV indoor relay championship in 2006. The wrestling team won the North II Group V state sectional championship in 2017

Superchief Marching Band

PHS is home to the Piscataway Superchiefs, a marching band with a very rich history. The band has achieved much through its years, including numerous USSBA Championships. The band began as a small group in the 1950s and existed with little or no fanfare. Starting in 1971 led by Band Directors R. Bruce Bradshaw and Joseph T. Mundi it quickly grew from 44 members to 204 members and consistently represents nearly 10% of the entire school's student body, year after year. The Superchiefs have recorded music for

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, and were in the 2002

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. Famed percussion instructor Dennis DeLucia previously wrote and arranged the percussion music for the drumline, but has since parted ways with the band. Over the years the Superchiefs have been featured in several TV shows, including ''American Oompah'' and ''The Superchiefs Go To Ireland'' for

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, ''Mario And The Magic Movie Machine'' for

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. The band has performed at numerous halftimes for the

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, and

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, as well as pre—game ceremonies for the

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. The band has also worked for the

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at the

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premier of ''

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