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, the third high school built in Toms River 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. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,552 students and 103.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 15.1:1. There were 274 students (17.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 78 (5.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Toms River High School East

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. Accessed December 1, 2022. The school won several awards for its heating system, which utilizes heat generating lighting fixtures. Its school colors are black, gray and Columbia blue (blue was not an original color when HSE started). The school mascot is the Raider. The school day lasts six hours and 20 minutes. The Toms River high school day ends at 1:35 PM, one of the earliest daily closing time of any high schools in New Jersey.

History

By 1974, the district was facing split sessions for students, as the district's first and second high schools, Toms River High School South and Toms River High School North, had a total of 4,600 students, nearly 50% above capacity. To address the overcrowding, a March 1975 bond referendum was proposed to raise $15 million—the largest ever in county history—for construction of a third high school, which was rejected by a margin of nearly a 1,000 votes. The school opened in September 1979 on a site in a building constructed at a cost $10.9 million (equivalent to $ million in ). Opened at a time of rising energy prices, the building was designed so that each classroom had only two windows as a means to reduce heat loss through the glass.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 171st-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 225th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 239th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 204th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 205th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. In 2017, the school became the seventh school in the state to be selected by Character.org as a National School of Character.

Athletics

The Toms River High School East RaidersToms River High School East

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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 1,036 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 as the host school / lead agency in a joint ice hockey team with Toms River High School South. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The boys' soccer team won the 1985 South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship against

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and went on to win the Group IV state title with a 3–1 win against

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in the championship game to finish the season with a 19-5-1 record. The girls' cross country team won the Group IV state championship in 1988 and 1996. The girls' track team won the Group IV state indoor relay championship in 1990. The 1997 ice hockey team won the Handchen Cup with a 5–4 win against

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. The girls' bowling team won the overall state championship in 1997 and won the Group IV title in 2009. The 2009 team won the Group IV title with 2,829 pins, the highest score in the competition, and entered the Tournament of Champions as the top seed, before losing in the semifinals to forth-ranked

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. The 2001 baseball team finished the season with a record of 29-2 after winning the 2001 Group IV state championship, defeating North Bergen High School by a score of 4–3 in the tournament final. The football team won the Shore Conference championships in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2009. The school's major rivalry is with the Mariners of Toms River High School North. Every Thanksgiving weekend, the football teams play in the annual "Battle of Bay Avenue." The softball team won the 2007 South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship with a 5–2 win over

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''Lip Dub'' videos

Toms River High School East was recognized across the state and even the country for their ''Lip Dub 1'' and ''Lip Dub 2'' videos. The lip dub videos feature East students lip-syncing and

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through the halls and campus of the school. The videos were created and produced by the Toms River Regional Schools TV Network and television production class. The students spent roughly three months planning ''Lip Dub 1'', planning camera movement and timing out cues for the students who were lip-syncing in the video. ''Lip Dub 1'' features about 150 students involved in many different sports, clubs and activities at East. In that same school year, ''Lip Dub 1'' received so much recognition that it inspired students and faculty at East to request a second lip dub be filmed. ''Lip Dub 2'' involved over 400 students and faculty at East and was featured on News 12 New Jersey as well as WOBM.com, a local radio station.

Administration

The school's principal is Erin Anders. Her core administration team includes three assistant principals.''Chain of Communication / How to Ef ectively Communicate with School Of icials 2022-2023 School Year''
Toms River High School East. Accessed November 19, 2022.

Notable alumni

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. *

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(born 1964, class of 1982),

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and

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(born 1984), professional

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player who had been the first seven-foot-tall player in Minor League Baseball history * Frankie Edgar (born 1981), professional

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fighter and former UFC Lightweight Champion. * Brian Geraghty (born 1974), actor who appeared in the film ''

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'' and on TV on ''

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(born 1968), former professional soccer player who led the school soccer team to the 1985 Group IV state championship, and now is an assistant principal at the school and coaches the school's soccer team. *

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(class of 1981), attorney who served as head of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. *

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and Broken Bones * Pavle Jovanovic (born 1977), bronze medal winner in the four-man

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at the FIBT World Championships 2004 who competed in the

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. * Joe Scott (born 1965), college basketball coach. *

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p. 264. . Accessed November 19, 2022. "Assemblyman Van Pelt was born in Elizabeth on Sept. 4, 1964. He graduated from Toms River High School East in 1982."

References

External links

Toms River High School East website
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School Data for the Toms River Regional Schools

{{Authority control Toms River, New Jersey 1979 establishments in New Jersey Educational institutions established in 1979 Public high schools in Ocean County, New Jersey School buildings completed in 1979