Randolph High School is a four-year

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in Randolph Township, in Morris County, United States, serving students in ninth through

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s as the lone secondary school of the Randolph Township Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1973. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,429 students and 127.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 11.2:1. There were 76 students (5.3% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 13 (0.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Randolph High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

History

The efforts to create a high school began after the district was notified by the Dover School District in 1957 that Randolph students would no longer be accepted at Dover High School for the 1960–61 school year. The partially completed school opened for grades 7–12 in September 1961 on a site and was constructed at a cost of cost of $1.75 million (equivalent to $ million in ) for students from Randolph and those from Jefferson Township, who attended as part of a

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until the 1964–65 school year, when Jefferson Township High School opened."Randolph High School: Timeline"
'' Daily Record'', May 17, 2005. Accessed April 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com. The current high school facility opened in October 1975, having been constructed at a cost of $7.2 million (equal to $ million in ), at which point the original 1961 high school building was repurposed as Randolph Middle School.

Awards and recognition

The school was the 16th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in ''

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'', September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014. The school was the 63rd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in ''

'' magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 37th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 52nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 65th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 32nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. The school was named by ''

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'' magazine in April 1992 as the best high school in the state, recognizing the school for its academic and extracurricular performance. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 90th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 24 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (87.9%) and language arts literacy (96.1%) components of the

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(HSPA).

Athletics

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. participate in the regional Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools located in Morris, Sussex and Warren counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the

(NJSIAA). Prior to the NJSIAA's 2010 realignment, the school had competed as part of the Iron Hills Conference, which included public and private high schools in

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, Morris and Union counties. With 1,182 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Freedom Blue division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV North for football for 2018–2020. The football team won the North II Group III state sectional championships in 1983 and from 1986 to 1989, and won in North II Group IV in both 1990 and 2010. The Randolph football team set New Jersey state records by winning 54 consecutive regular-season and playoff games and going unbeaten in 59 straight games from 1986 to 1991, a record since broken by

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with 63 straight wins from 1992 to 1998. In 1983, the team won the program's first North II Group III title and finished the season 10–1 after a 22–9 win against Linden High School in the finals. The 1987 team used its defense to hold on to a 12–7 win in the North II Group III championship game against Summit High School, to finish the season with a 10–1 record. The 1988 team finished the season with an 11–0 record and extended its unbeaten streak to 28 games after winning the North II Group III state sectional title with a 15–12 victory against previously undefeated Nutley High School after scoring a last-minute touchdown in the championship game. The team's 34–22 win over

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in October 1990 had broken the state record of 40 consecutive wins, which had been set by

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. The program won its fifth consecutive title and finished the season ranked 11th in the nation by ''

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'' after winning the 1990 North I Group IV sectional championship game with a 22–21 win against Montclair High School; the win was the team's 49th consecutive victory, breaking a record of 48 games without a loss (including two tie games) that had been set by Westfield High School from 1968 to 1973. The 2010 football team won the New Jersey North I Group IV state sectional title, the team's first since 1990, with a 19–0 win against Montclair. The school's football rivalry with Roxbury High School, which began in 1965, was listed at 18th on NJ.com's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". Randolph leads the rivalry with a 29–20–3 overall record as of 2017. In 1986, the boys' soccer team finished the season with a record of 18–6–1 after a 1–1 tie with Lakewood High School made the team the Group III co-champion. The girls' soccer team won the Group III championship in 1991 (defeating runner-up Holy Cross Academy in the finals), 1995 (vs. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School) and 2001 (in overtime vs.

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). The 1991 team finished the season with a 20–1–1 record after winning the Group IV state title with a 1–0 victory against Holy Cross in the championship game played at

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. The wrestling team won the North II Group IV state championship in 1991–1995, won the North I Group IV title in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009; the team won the Group IV state championship in 1993 The field hockey team won the North I / II Group IV sectional title in 1994 and won the North I Group IV championship in 2009. The ice hockey team has won the Public School state championships in 2003 and 2006 (Public) and in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015 (Public A); the team's eight titles are tied for third-most of any school in the state. In 2003, Randolph High School won its first

(NJSIAA) Public School Ice Hockey state championship in the 64-team tournament, with a 7–0 shutout of

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at the Continental Airlines Arena. The team was the 2006 NJSIAA 64-team tournament. In 2007, they won the championship with a 5–4 win against Bridgewater-Raritan High School. The school won their fourth public title in the 2009 NJSIAA Public School A Ice Hockey state championship with a 1–0 win over

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. The team won the 2011 Public A title with a 1–0 win against Montgomery High School at the Prudential Center. The boys' lacrosse team won the Group III state championship in 2005, defeating West Morris Central High School in the tournament final. The cheerleading squad were three-time national champions, in 2006, 2007 and 2008 at the CanAm Nationals in

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. They won again in 2010 at the CanAm Nationals. In 2013, the small varsity team was second in the region behind national champions Burlington High School by 3 points. In 2013 the competition cheerleading team was ranked 16th in the nation in the Small Varsity division in the UCA NHSCC competition at

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, which was the first time that RHS was a national finalist in the competition. The girls' cross country team won the Group IV state championship in 2009. The 2010 baseball team won the New Jersey Group IV state championship with an 8–4 win over

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. The team has won the Morris County Tournament three times, tied for the fourth-most in tournament history, winning in 1994, 2004, 2007 and 2013.

Media

''Ram-Page'' is the school's monthly newspaper, and was the first high school newspaper in the state with a mobile application, available on Android devices.

Administration

The school's principal is Jessica Caruso Baxter. Her core administration team includes two vice principals.

Notable alumni

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'', August 15, 2004. Accessed March 2, 2012. "'The high school we went to had a lot of Indian and Asian kids,' said Mr. Schlossberg, who graduated from Randolph High in Morris County in 1996, as did Mr. Hurwitz.""A movie with Jersey written all over it." (Editorial), ''

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. * Hayden Schlossberg (born 1978, class of 1996), screenwriter. * Bob Van Dillen (born 1972, class of 1991), meteorologist on HLN's '' Morning Express with Robin Meade''. * Drew Willy (born 1986), NFL quarterback.McKissic, Rodney
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'', August 2, 2008. Accessed July 27, 2009. "Willy had worked under a different offensive coordinator and offensive system for four straight seasons, dating from his senior season at Randolph High School in New Jersey."

References

External links

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