South Amboy Middle / High School (also known as H. G. Hoffman High School) is a seven-year comprehensive community

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that serves students in sixth through

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s from

South Amboy South Amboy is a suburban city in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located on Raritan Bay. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city's population was 9,411.Middlesex County, in the

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, operating as the lone secondary school of the

South Amboy Public Schools The South Amboy Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from South Amboy, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 584 students and 40.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 14.5:1. There were 128 students (21.9% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 24 (4.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for South Amboy Middle/High School

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. Accessed December 1, 2022.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 245th-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 172nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 165th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 209th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 198th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 205th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 3 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

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(HSPA).

Athletics

The South Amboy Middle High School Governors (or Guvs)South Amboy High School

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the

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, which is comprised of public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County area, and operates under the supervision of the

(NJSIAA). With 210 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 school participates in joint cooperative field hockey and football teams with

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as the host school / lead agency. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The boys' basketball team won the Group II state championship in 1939 (defeating

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in the tournament final) and won the Group I title in 1963 (vs.

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). The 1939 came back in the fourth quarter to defeat Wildwood for the Group II title and was presented the championship trophy by former Governor Harold Hoffman, the school's namesake. In 1963, the team defeated Wood-Ridge 63–60 in overtime to win the Group I state championship game in front of a crowd of 5,000 at

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. The 1984 baseball team won the Group I state title with a 3–0 victory against Emerson Jr./Sr. High School in the championship game, to finish the season 19–3.NJSIAA Baseball Championship History

. Accessed May 1, 2023. The girls' basketball team won the Group I state championship in five consecutive seasons, in 1985 (defeating

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in the tournament final), 1986 and 1987 (vs.

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both years), 1988 (vs.

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) and 1989 (vs. University High School); the five state titles are tied for ninth-most in the state. The team won their second consecutive Group I title in 1987 with a 73–29 win in the championship game against Waldwick. Despite being one of the smallest high schools in New Jersey, the 1989 team set a state record with their fifth consecutive group title, before being awarded the sixth and lowest seed in the Tournament of Champions, where they defeated third-seeded Bishop Eustace Preparatory School 74–61 in the first round and then second-seed

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by a score of 45–43 in the semifinals before a 45–43 overtime win against fourth-seeded

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in the finals. For their accomplishments, the team was inducted into the NJSIAA Hall of Fame in 2015. The 1986 softball team finished the season with a record of 19-0-1 after winning the Group I state championship in with a 10-2 one-hitter against

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in their first and only playoff final to date.NJSIAA Softball Championship History

. Accessed May 1, 2023.

Administration

The principal is James H. Brown Jr. His administration team includes the vice principal.

Notable alumni

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since 2010 and has served as the Speaker of the General Assembly since 2018. *

Harold G. Hoffman Harold Giles Hoffman (February 7, 1896 – June 4, 1954) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 41st governor of New Jersey from 1935 to 1938. He also served two terms representing in the United States House of Re ...

(1896-1954, class of 1913), 41st

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, from 1935 to 1938. *

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(1927–1992, class of 1946), politician who served in the

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for New York from 1977 until his death in 1992."Weiss, Theodore S. (1927-1992)"
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''. Accessed September 21, 2020. "Weiss, Theodore S., a Representative from New York; born in Gava, Hungary, September 17, 1927; attended the primary schools of Hungary until 1938 when he emigrated to the United States and settled in South Amboy, N.J.; continued his education in the public schools of South Amboy; graduated from Hoffman High School, 1946"

References

External links

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