Boonton High School

Boonton High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Boonton, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Boonton Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928.[4]

Boonton High School
Address
306 Lathrop Avenue

Boonton
,
Morris County
,
New Jersey
07005

United States
Coordinates40.902137°N 74.405216°W / 40.902137; -74.405216
Information
TypePublic high school
MottoA World Class Education for Tomorrow's Leaders
Established1875
School districtBoonton Public Schools
NCES School ID3401950[1]
PrincipalJason Klebez
Faculty56.3 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment643 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio11.4:1[1]
Color(s)  Black
  Red[2][3]
Athletics conferenceNorthwest Jersey Athletic Conference
Team nameBombers[2]
AccreditationMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools[4]
NewspaperWampus
Websitewww.boontonschools.org/boontonhighschool

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 643 students and 56.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1. There were 140 students (21.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 34 (5.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

The high school serves students from Boonton and approximately 300 students from Lincoln Park, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Lincoln Park Public Schools.[5][6] The two districts have sought to sever the more-than-50-year-old relationship, citing cost savings that could be achieved by both districts and complaints by Lincoln Park that it is granted only one seat on the Boonton Public Schools' Board of Education. In April 2006, the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education rejected the request.[7]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 212th-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.[8] The school had been ranked 109th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 130th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[9] The magazine ranked the school 112th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[10] The school was ranked 128th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[11]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 259th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 15 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).[12]

Athletics

The Boonton High School Bombers[2] compete in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC), which includes 39 public and private high schools in Morris and Sussex counties, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[13][14] Before the 2010 realignment, the school had competed in the Colonial Hills Conference, which includes public and private high schools in Essex, Morris and Somerset counties.[15] With 459 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.[16] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I North for football for 2018–2020.[17]

The school participates in a joint ice hockey team with Mountain Lakes High School as the host school / lead agency. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.[18]

The boys' lacrosse team won the 1976 state title by defeating Montclair High School by a score of 8-5 in the championship Game, after losing to Montclair in the state finals in both 1974 (by a score 9-2) and 1975 (by 10-3).[19] The 1998 team won the state championship with an 8-5 win against Montclair High School in the championship game.[20]

The field hockey team won the North II Group II state sectional championships in 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, North II Group I in 1998, North I Group I in 2004. The team was the runner-up for the Group II state championship in 1991 and 1992, and for the Group I title in 1998.[21]

The football team won the NJSIAA North I Group I state sectional championship in 2003 and 2019.[22] The team won the North I Group I title in 2019 with a 34-21 win against Cedar Grove High School.[23]

The boys track team won the spring track state championship in Group I in 2017.[24]

The Mountain Lakes-Boonton co-op ice hockey team won the Haas Cup in 2020.[25]

Administration

The school's principal is Jason Klebez. His core administration team includes two vice principals and the athletic director.[26]

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Boonton High School include:[27]

Notable faculty

References
  1. School data for Boonton High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Boonton High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. Boonton Football, MaxPreps. Accessed September 10, 2017.
  4. Boonton High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed May 19, 2020.
  5. Boonton High 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 26, 2017. "Boonton High School, located in Morris County, New Jersey serves approximately 600 students in grades 9-12 and is comprised oftwo municipalities; the towns of Boonton and Lincoln Park."
  6. Lincoln Park School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 26, 2017. "Lincoln Park participates in a sending-receiving relationship with Boonton High School, which offers a comprehensive educational program for children in grades 9 through 12. The Lincoln Park School District sends approximately 290 students to Boonton High School. Approximately 70 high school age students attend The Academies of Morris County. "
  7. Commissioner of Education Decision, New Jersey Department of Education, April 25, 2006. Accessed March 21, 2011.
  8. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  9. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed August 23, 2012.
  10. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed July 19, 2011.
  11. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  12. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 15, 2012.
  13. Home Page, Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference. Accessed August 27, 2020. "The Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference prides itself on being one of New Jersey's premier high school conferences and is comprised of 39 high schools located in Northwest New Jersey."
  14. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  15. Home page, Colonial Hills Conference, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 20, 2009. Accessed August 27, 2011.
  16. NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  17. NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2018–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, finalized August 2019. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  18. NJSIAA Winter Cooperative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2020.
  19. NJSIAA Boys Lacrosse Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 1, 2020.
  20. "Boonton Wins State Lacrosse Crown", Daily Record, June 3, 1976. Accessed January 2, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "'Yes, I would say that this is the happiest moment of my coaching career,' declared Boonton coach Dick Rizk after his team had won the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association state lacrosse championship by defeating Montclair, 8-5, at the Fairleigh Dickinson University field yesterday.... Yesterday's game was the title game of the third annual NJSIAA tourney. The results of the past two championship contests were: Montclair 9, Boonton 2 in 1974 and Montclair 10, Boonton 3, last year."
  21. NJSIAA History of Field Hockey Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  22. NJSIAA Football History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  23. Koob, Andrew. "Football: Big plays, timely defense powers Boonton to first title since ’03", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 23, 2019. Accessed September 25, 2020. "That score, coupled with two big games from its usual speed backs and a timely defensive stand, was more than enough to lift fourth-seeded Boonton to a 34-21 win over second-seeded Cedar Grove in the NJSIAA/Rothman Orthopaedics North 1, Group 1 championship game to give Boonton its second ever sectional title and first since 2003."
  24. NJSIAA Spring Track Summary of Group Titles Boys, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  25. NJSIAA Ice Hockey State Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  26. Administration, Boonton High School. Accessed May 19, 2020.
  27. Paik, Eugene "Boonton Museum Honors Accomplished Alumni", The Star-Ledger, June 19, 2009. Accessed August 27, 2011.
  28. Evans, Thomas. "The Best And The Brightest From Boonton High: `Wall of Fame' hails achievements Twenty-two more to be inducted", The Star-Ledger, November 6, 1997. Accessed August 19, 2007. "Amanda Bennett, class of 1970, will enter the hall this year, based on her career as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal. Bennett, the Journal's Atlanta bureau chief, was one of a team of the paper's reporters who received a Pulitzer Prize last year for a series on the development and effectiveness of new AIDS treatments."
  29. Ragonese, Lawrence. "A new Trenton team: The Buccos", The Star-Ledger, November 7, 2009. Accessed July 19, 2011. "Father and son. Senator and assemblyman-elect. Anthony Bucco and Anthony Bucco Jr. The Buccos will serve together in the Legislature after the younger Bucco takes the oath of office Jan. 12, the result of his win Tuesday in Morris County's 25th District. The Republican duo will join the small club of parent-child legislators who have served together in New Jersey.... Tony Sr., now 71, was first running for alderman in Boonton when his son was getting elected class president at Boonton High School."
  30. Seman, Rob. "Ex-Morris vet's name to grace Florida school" Archived January 21, 2013, at Archive.today, Daily Record, February 25, 2005. Accessed August 19, 2007. "Cafferata was born in New York City, but moved to Morris County with his family when he was 9 years old and lived in Lake Hiawatha and Montville. He graduated from Boonton High School in 1949, and was one of the first inductees to the school's Hall of Fame in 1996."
  31. Brigadier General Frederick Walker Castle Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Accessed August 19, 2007. "He entered the United States Military Academy, from which his father was a 1907 graduate, in July of 1926, after attending Boonton High School and Storm King (NY) Military Academy."
  32. Assembly, No. 3789 - 215th Legislature, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed September 1, 2019. "Whereas, The Honorable Alex DeCroce, born June 10, 1936 in Morristown, New Jersey, was a life-long New Jersey resident who grew up in Morris County and attended Boonton High School and Seton Hall University"
  33. Andrikanich, Ryan. "Honoring a legend", Daily Record, December 9, 2006. Accessed July 19, 2011. "On this day 50 years ago, one of the worst commercial aviation disasters in Canadian history took the life of a promising young American football player who began his career as an offensive lineman for Boonton High School.... Mario DeMarco was born and raised in Boonton and played football for four years as a starting offensive lineman."
  34. Kuzma, David. "Inventory to the Dean A. Gallo Congressional Papers", Rutgers University. Accessed November 26, 2017. "1935: On November 23rd, Dean Anderson Gallo is born in Hackensack, New Jersey. (Subsequently grows up in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, Morris County, New Jersey.); 1954: Graduates from Boonton High School, Boonton, New Jersey."
  35. Pope, Clementina. "Boonton Honors Kiick", Daily Record, November 7, 1999. Accessed August 27, 2011. "Yesterday, the 53-year-old former NFL great was honored at Boonton High School by family, friends, school officials and his former football coach, now board of education Vice President Joe Molitoris."
  36. Jim Kiick Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, database Football. Accessed August 19, 2007.
  37. O'Brien, Walter. "Boonton's Mike Michalowicz, Films Reality Show in Clinton, New Jersey", Courier News, May 26, 2009. Accessed July 19, 2011.
  38. Robertson, Nan. "Heard but Unseen, Seven Actors Share 'Talk Radio' Roles", The New York Times, July 30, 1987. Accessed July 19, 2011. "'My coach at Boonton High School in New Jersey used to say of me, "One hundred seventy-two pounds of blue twisted steel, tempered to perfection",' Mr. Onorati recalled with a laugh..."
  39. Staff. "James P. Vreeland Jr., 91, former state senator, devoted to community service and to farming", New Jersey Hills, July 11, 2001. Accessed January 21, 2018. "Senator Vreeland was born in the Towaco section of Montville and lived there all of his life. He was a 1927 graduate of Boonton High School and went on to attend both Rutgers University and Lehigh University."
  40. Charlie Weis profile Archived December 28, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, CSTV. Accessed August 19, 2007. "The Trenton, N.J., native began his coaching career in 1979 at Boonton High School in New Jersey, then spent the next five seasons at Morristown (N.J.) High School as a football assistant."
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