Spotswood High School is a four-year comprehensive

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, serving students in ninth through

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in Spotswood, in Middlesex County,

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, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Spotswood Public Schools. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 729 students and 59.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.4:1. There were 53 students (7.3% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 9 (1.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Spotswood High School
National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022. Students from

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, a non-operating district, attend school in Spotswood beginning in grammar school; students from Milltown attend the high school as part of a

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with the Milltown Public Schools.

Awards, recognition and rankings

During the 1992-93 school year, Spotswood High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the

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, the highest award an American school can receive. The school was the 159th-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 been ranked 102nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 105th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 126th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 183rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 80th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 17 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.8%) and language arts literacy (95.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).

Athletics

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, which is comprised of public and private high schools in the Middlesex County area and operates under the auspices of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 509 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range. The football team competes in Division 2B 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 II South for football for 2018–2020. The school participates together with South River High School in a joint ice hockey team in which

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is the host school / lead agency. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.

Cross country

*The men's cross country team had a 36 consecutive dual meet winning streak that started in 2000 and was snapped by

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in September 2006. *In the 2003 season, the men's team won the Central Jersey Group II sectional title. *In 2005, the men's team won the Central Jersey Group II state sectional and Group II titles. The team advanced to the Meet of Champions, where the team finished in 11th place.

Track and field

*The 2004 men's spring track team broke Metuchen's 11-year win streak becoming 2004 Blue Division champions. *The 2013 men's spring track team beat division rivals Kennedy and Metuchen to finish the season undefeated and become Blue Division Champions.

Baseball

*2007 Central Jersey Group II sectional champions, with a 1-0 win over Somerville High School. *2007 GMC Tournament champions, the program's first title, with a 7-6 win against

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in the finals. *2007 NJSIAA Group II baseball state champions, defeating Sterling High School 13-2 in the semifinals and Indian Hills High School 11-1 in the group final. *2010 Central Jersey Group II sectional champions, with a 7-5 win over

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Basketball

*The women's basketball team won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I state sectional title in 1999 with a 56-50 win over Montgomery High School to earn the program's first title.

Administration

The principal is Amy Jablonski. Her administration team includes the assistant principal.

Notable alumni

* Michael "Jersey" Moriarty (class of 2004), bassist for the band

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. * Geno Zimmerlink (born 1963), former

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who played for the Atlanta Falcons of the

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.Geno Zimmerlink
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References

External links

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School Data for the Spotswood Public Schools
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