Winslow Township High School (WTHS) is a four-year comprehensive

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in the

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section of Winslow Township, in Camden County,

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, United States, that serves students in

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through

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s as the lone secondary school of the

Winslow Township School District The Winslow Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Winslow Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The district operates f ...

. Until 2000, the facility that is now Winslow Township High School was part of the

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and was known as

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, which was the sister school of Overbook Regional Senior High School in Pine Hill (now known as Overbrook High School). Students from Chesilhurst, a non-operating district, attend the district's schools as part of a

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with the

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. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,229 students and 114.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 10.7:1. There were 434 students (35.3% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 55 (4.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Winslow Township High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 271st-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 299th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 309th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 274th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 297th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. In 2014-15 the boys' basketball team won the group OV state championship.

Extracurricular activities

Television production

Winslow Township High School Television Production, also known as "Studio 106," has won three National Student Television Awards (Student Emmy Awards) for both Writing and Technical Achievement from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the

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. It has taken home top honors from the New Jersey State Teen Arts Competition (Film and Television Awards). Studio 106 produces a daily live morning show called "Bird's Eye View", which is a broadcast via closed-circuit television to the students and staff of Winslow Township High School.

Drama club and stage crew

* Each year Winslow's Drama Club and Stage Crew present at least two major productions, a comedy or drama in the fall and a musical in the spring. The ticket sales and fund raisers benefit the Theatre Guild Senior Scholarship Program. Previous performances include: ''

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'' (2001), '' South Pacific'' (2002), ''

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'' (2002), ''

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'' (2003), '' Don't Drink the Water'' (2003), ''

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'' (2004), ''

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'' (2006), ''

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'' (2008), '' Arsenic and Old Lace'' (2008), Grease'' (2009)" , ''

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'' (2009), '' The Fiddler on the Roof" (2010) and ''

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'' (2011) * The WTHS Drama Club and Stage Crew have been recognized for outstanding achievement in theatre by the distinguished

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Rising Star Awards. * The WTHS Drama Club and Stage Crew has taken home top honors multiple years from the New Jersey State Teen Arts Competition.

Sports

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and Camden counties, and operates under the supervision of the

. With 953 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group 3 for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Independence Division of the 94-team

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superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV South for football for 2022–2024. Winslow Township High School hosted games as part of the 2004 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup soccer tournament. In spring 2006, Winslow Township created an ice hockey club team for students of Winslow Township High School, playing competitive hockey in the South Jersey league out of the Flyers Skatezone in Voorhees, New Jersey. In fall 2006 and early 2007, Winslow Ice Hockey competed in the Independent High School league out of the Vineland Ice Arena in

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. The boys indoor track team won the Group IV state championship in 2003 and won in Group III in 2004. The girls team won the Group IV indoor track title in 2003 and in Group III in 2006, 2012-2015 and 2018–2020; the 10 group titles won by the girls team is tied for the most of any school in the state. The boys track team won the indoor relay championship in Group IV in 2003, and won the Group III title in 2004 and 2008. The girls team won the Group III title in 2011, 2013 (as co-champion), 2015 and 2018–2020; The girls program's five state titles are tied for seventh-most in the state The girls team won the NJSIAA spring track Group IV state championship in 2004 and won the Group III title in 2013, 2014 and 2016–2019. The program's eight state titles are ranked fourth in the state. The high school marching band won the 2017 Group 2A Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Championship and the 2021 Group 1A Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Championship with a score of 95.25, a school record. Both, the 2017 and 2021 seasons were undefeated by Winslow.

Army JROTC

The Winslow Township High School is host to a branch of U.S. Army

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. The Battalion, named Soaring Eagle, is well known in the community and even conducts annual food drives. It is currently an Honor Unit. The school's program currently does not have an army instructor, so for the time being, the program has ceased.

Shooting plot

Winslow Township High School gained national attention in 2006 because of a shooting plot which was to take place during a lunch period. Two females, sophomores at the high school, had heard rumors of a plot in close relation to the 2003 movie 'Elephant' and alerted school officials who in turn notified the Winslow Township Police Department. The students involved were arrested before the plot could be carried out. The only subject to be sentenced at this point has received four years probation and must undergo counseling and psychological evaluations.

Administration

The school's principal is Kurtis Marella. His core administration team includes four assistant principals and the athletic director.

Notable alumni

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(born 1992, class of 2011), Offensive Coordinator for Winslow Township High School,

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after a record setting career at the

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(AFL).

Notable faculty

* Christian Hackenberg (born 1995), former

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, March 3, 2021. Accessed April 5, 2021. "Former Jets quarterback Christian Hackenberg is now a coach at Winslow Township High School in Atco."

References

External links

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