Toms River High School South is a comprehensive four-year

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, and was the first high school established in Toms River (formerly Dover Township) in Ocean County,

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, United States, serving students in

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through

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s as part of the Toms River Regional Schools. The school day starts at 7:15 AM and lasts six hours and 20 minutes. Toms River high schools have some of the earliest daily closing high schools in New Jersey, closing at 1:35 PM every day. As of the 2020–21 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,362 students and 96.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 14.1:1. There were 278 students (20.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 53 (3.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Toms River High School South

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. Accessed February 15, 2022. The school colors are

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and White. The school has four mascots: Indian, Indian Princess, Super Maroon, and Spirit. During the 2014-15 school year, the mascots were Indian XLVII, Princess XLVI, Super Maroon XXXVII, and Spirit XVI. The mascots appear at every football game of the High School South Indians, which also feature the longtime "Voice of the Indians", P. David Correll Jr., as public address announcer.

History

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Toms River South High School. Accessed February 22, 2021. "Welcome to Toms River High School South - the oldest and proudest of the Toms River Regional Schools. Established in 1891, Toms River High School South recently graduated the 130th class of seniors." In 1969, when the high school was found to be too small, a second high school, Toms River High School North was opened and ''South'' was appended onto the school's original name, and a third high school in the district,

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, was opened in 1979.O'Kidd, Lauren
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'', April 20, 2007. Accessed August 2, 2011. "Planer is the High School South "Indian." Since 1968, seniors have been trying out for the coveted mascot post to help keep school spirit at a high. Besides "the Indian," students try out for the positions of "Indian Princess," "Super Maroon," and "Spirit," Planer says. All four perform at South football games, he adds.... In 1969, Toms River High School North opened, and 10 years later Toms River High School East opened."

Awards, recognition and rankings

For the 1993-94 school year, Toms River Alternate School - High School South was named as a "Star School" by the

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, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve. The school was the 230th-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 229th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 269th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 264th in 2008 out of 316 schools.

Athletics

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in Division A South of the

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and Ocean counties along the

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.Shore Conference Realignment for 2018-2019 and 2019-2020

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(NJSIAA). With 1,024 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 participates in a joint ice hockey team with

as the host school / lead agency. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The field hockey team won the South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship in 1975 and 1984, and won the South Jersey Group III title in 1991. The 1975 team won the Group IV state championship with a 2-0 win against

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in the championship game to finish the season with a 16-0-1 record, the only game the team didn't win being a scoreless tie. The girls spring track team won the Group IV state championship in 1976 (as co-champion with Toms River High School North). The football team won the NJSIAA state sectional championships in 1978 in South Jersey Group IV, in both 1983 and 1991 in South Jersey Group III and won in South Jersey Group V in 2015. The 1978 team defeated Cherry Hill High School East by a score of 16-6 to win the South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship. After Eastern Regional High School came back with a late touchdown to tie the game at 14-14 in regulation, the 1983 team won the South Jersey Group III sectional title by a score of 17-14 with an overtime field goal. In 2015, the team won the South Jersey Group V title with a 14-7 win against Williamstown High School in the tournament final. Each year, students, parents, teachers, alumni and administrators gather for the annual Toms River High School North vs. Toms River High School South football game. The game is considered to be the biggest event of the year for students. The annual rivalry began in 1972. In the most recent matchup between the two schools, Toms River South came back after trailing by 15 points to defeat Toms River North by a score of 28-21 on October 2, 2020. The boys' cross country team won the Group III state championship in 1980. The baseball team won the Group III state championship in 1990 (vs.

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), 1994 (vs.

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), 1998 (vs. Millburn High School), 2002 (vs. Ramapo High School) and 2003 (vs.

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); the program's five state championships are tied for seven-most in the state. With a three-run home run from Todd Frazier, the team won the Group III title by a score of 9-4 against Cranford in the championship game to finish the season with a 24-4 record. The boys track team won the indoor Group III state title in 1995. The girls' soccer team won the Group III state championship in 2001 (against Ramapo High School in the finals) and 2002 (vs.

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). In 2009, the boys' soccer team upset Toms River High School North with a 4-3 overtime win in the state semifinals and went on to win the Group IV state championship for the first time in program history, with a 1-0 victory over Clifton High School in the final game of the tournament to finish the season with an 18-5-2 record. The ice hockey team won the Public A state championship in 2010, won the McInnis Cup in 1996 and 1999, and won the Dowd Cup in 2020. The team won the Public A state title in 2010, having come into the tournament as a 16th seed, which is the lowest seed to ever win the state championship, having knocked off the number one seed

in the first round, and beat the number 3 seed Randolph High School in the finals. The wrestling team won the South Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 2013. Toms River Regional Schools has denied requests to retire the Indian mascot as being racially insensitive, while supporters of the mascot claim that the "...team's identity is a tradition that honors and respects Native American people."

Administration

The school's principal is Kevin Raylman. His administration team includes three assistant principals.

Notable alumni

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References

External links

Toms River High School South websiteToms River Schools Hall of Fame
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School Data for the Toms River Regional Schools

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