Wildwood High School is a comprehensive community

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that serves students in ninth through

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s from Wildwood, in

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. It is the sole secondary school of the Wildwood City School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1991. Students from

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, West Wildwood and

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attend Wildwood High School as part of

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s with their respective school districts. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 263 students and 31.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.5:1. There were 157 students (59.7% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 13 (4.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Wildwood High School
National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022. Wildwood Middle School and the Wildwood Public School District administration share the Wildwood High property. The same building formerly housed Elementary School #1, for grades 5 and 6, along with Wildwood High.

History

The first high school class of Wildwood graduated in 1906. The current building opened in 1917. At one time this building had grades 1-12. In 1927 and 1967 the building received additions.
Linked from the official Wildwood Schools pagewhich in turn confirmed as such by the NJ Dept. of Education

Awards, recognition and rankings

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the

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as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as honoring schools that "represent examples of educational excellence". The school was the 285th-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 244th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 279th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 253rd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 299th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 321st out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 11 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).

Athletics

The Wildwood High School WarriorsWildwood High School
New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete as one of the member schools in the Tri-County Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools located in Camden, Cape May, Cumberland,

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and Salem counties.Member Schools
Tri-County Conference. Accessed November 18, 2020. The conference is overseen by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 183 students in grades 9-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022-23 school year as South, Group 1 for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Horizon Division of the 94-team

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superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as South, Group 1 for football for 2022–2023. The boys' basketball team won the Group II state title in 1940 vs.

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and 1941 vs.

Pompton Lakes High School Pompton Lakes High School (PLHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the borough of Pompton Lakes in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Pompton Lakes School District. The sch ...

, and won the Group I title in 1942 against Bernardsville High School, in 1961 vs.

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and in 1964 vs.

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. After playoff losses in the four previous seasons, the 1940 team won the Group II title after defeating Bogota by a score of 34-18 in the championship game. The 1941 team puled ahead with a 7-0 run in the first quarter and held on to repeat as state champion after defeating Pompton Lakes by a score of 39-35 in the finals. Led by 18 points from future NFL player

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, the 1961 team won the Group I state title with a 65-50 win against North Arlington in the championship game played at

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's Dillon Gymnasium. The softball team won the Group I state championship in 1976, defeating

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in the final round of the tournament. The girls' basketball team won the 1991 Group I state championship (against runner-up

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in the finals), 2000 (vs.

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) and in both 2001 and 2002 (against Mountain Lakes High School both seasons).

Notable alumni

(born 1944, class of 1962), former professional

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player *

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(born 1951, class of 1969), recording and mastering engineer. * Wes Hills (born 1995, class of 2013),

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who has played in the NFL for the Detroit Lions. * Bill Osborn (born 1966, class of 1984), football scout and color analyst who played in the

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, World League and the

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. *

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(born 1973, class of 1991), head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, who has also been an assistant with the Philadelphia 76ers, Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, and

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Administration

The principal is Phil Schaffer. His administration team includes the assistant principal / athletic director.Administration
Wildwood School District. Accessed April 19, 2020.

References

External links

Wildwood High SchoolWildwood Public School District
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School Data for the Wildwood Public School District
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