Woodstown High School is a comprehensive community

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that serves students in

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through

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from

Woodstown Woodstown ( ga, Baile na Coille, IPA: �bˠalʲəˈnˠaˈkɛl̪ʲə is home to a historic settlement measuring 1.5 km by 0.5 km, located on the southern bank of the River Suir, about 5.5 km west of Waterford City in the southeast ...

and Pilesgrove Township, in Salem County,

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, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 559 students and 49.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 11.2:1. There were 86 students (15.4% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 13 (2.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Woodstown High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022. Students from neighboring Alloway Township, Oldmans Township and Upper Pittsgrove Township attend the high school as part of

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s. A majority of public school students in grades 9-12 from Oldmans Township attend Penns Grove High School as part of a

with the Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District, with the balance attending Woodstown High School. The principal is Richard S. Senor; the assistant principal is Stephen P. Asay.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 137th-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 185th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 147th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 187th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 171st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Athletics

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. 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 in Camden,

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and Salem counties.Member Schools
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(NJSIAA). With 450 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I 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 Diamond Division of the 95-team

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superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I South for football for 2022–2024. The school offers several athletics for both men and women including football, soccer, field hockey, tennis, golf, basketball, baseball, swimming, lacrosse, wrestling and track and field. The Thanksgiving Day rivalry with Salem High School, among the state's oldest and one that has attracted crowds exceeding 3,000, was listed at 9th on

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's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". Salem leads the rivalry with a 60–35–10 overall record as of 2017. The field hockey team won the South Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 1978, 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019. The baseball team finished the 1991 season with a 23-7-1 record after winning the Group II state championship by defeating Summit High School by a score of 2–0 in the tournament final. The team won the Group I state championship in 2022, defeating

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by a score of 6–3 in the title game to finish the season with a 19–9 record.

Performing arts

The music department is a chapter of the Tri-M Music Honor Society. The high school offers concert choir classes to all students, along with select choirs, including an extracurricular Chamber Choir. The school also has a marching band and a concert band along with an extracurricular jazz and woodwind ensembles. The department also has a music technology curriculum for students interested in audio production. The Woodstown High School Drama Club features two annual shows, a fall straight play that is student-directed by seniors, who are taught the process of "how" to direct a play by the Drama Club advisor, and a winter musical, which is performed at the end of February/early March. In 2015, the Drama Club performed the Broadway musical, ''A Tale of Two Cities''. The writer of this Broadway show came to see two of the performances, to run a theater workshop with the cast, and also took part in a "Question and Answer" session with the audience.

Communications Academy

Woodstown High School is an academy school in Salem County featuring special services to students interested in the field of communications and information technology. The academy programs offer studies in radio, television and film production along with studies in journalism, public relations, publishing, mass media law and ethics, public speaking, and creative writing. The junior and senior students in the academy also help to produce the morning news / entertainment school television show, AM Woodstown. The information technology academy through Woodstown High School is offered through the

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Notable alumni

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(born 1984), film director. * Jim Cook Jr. (born 1987, class of 2006), writer, actor, and filmmaker who won a seat on the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Board of Education only using social media. * Fred Drains (born 1971), American-born and naturalized Swedish basketball player. * Seymour W. Duncan (born 1951), American guitarist, guitar repairman, and a co-founder of the

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* Irv Halter (born 1952/1953), retired

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. Accessed September 26, 2017. "He graduated from Woodstown High School and attended Arizona State University (1964-1967) and the University of Maryland (1967)."

References

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