Memorial High School (Millville, New Jersey)

Memorial High School is a comprehensive public high school in Millville in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, operated as part of the Millville Public Schools. The school was built in 1925 and used as the Millville High School from 1925-1964 until the Millville Senior High School was built. Currently it is being used as a Junior High School to house the ninth grade and half of the tenth grade.

Memorial High School
Address
504 East Broad Street

Millville
,
Cumberland County
,
New Jersey
08332

United States
Coordinates39.4030°N 75.0322°W / 39.4030; -75.0322
Information
Typepublic high school
School districtMillville Public Schools
NCES School ID3410320[1]
PrincipalStephanie DeRose[2]
Faculty56.7 FTEs[1]
Grades9-10
Enrollment807 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio14.2:1[1]
Team nameThunderbolts
Websitemhs.millville.org

Students from Woodbine attend the district's high schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[3] Maurice River Township students also attend the district's high schools, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Maurice River Township School District.[4] Commercial Township and Lawrence Township also send students to the district's high schools; The four sending districts filed suit in 2009, challenging the way in which the Millville district charges for students from outside the district to attend the school.[5]

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 807 students and 56.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.2:1. There were 449 students (55.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 83 (10.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

History

The school is a memorial to those who lost their lives in World War I; there were 20 Millville residents who died during their service during the war. A bronze plaque next to the school's auditorium states that the school was "Dedicated in Memory of the Men from Millville who made the Supreme Sacrifice in the World War.".[6]

Millville High School is the home of the Millville Thunderbolts.

As part of a $110 million expansion project overseen by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority and scheduled to start in 2017, the school's capacity will be doubled to accommodate up to 2,300 students, allowing all freshmen and sophomore classes that had been at Memorial High School to be consolidated at the Senior High School building.[7]

References
  1. School data for Memorial High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Administration, Memorial High School. May 6, 2019.
  3. Campbell, Al. "Woodbine School Proposes Consolidation with Middle Schools", Cape May County Herald, February 27, 2008. Accessed March 29, 2011. "One key factor, said Kopakowski, is Woodbine's sending-receiving relationship with Millville School District. That Cumberland County district, with about 6,400 pupils K-12 has long educated Woodbine's high school students."
  4. Maurice River Township Elementary School: About Us, Maurice River Township School District. Accessed January 25, 2018. "The Maurice River Township School District consists of one elementary school and is a sending district to the Millville School District for its high school students.... Maurice River Township transports approximately 180 students to the Memorial and Senior High Schools in Millville."
  5. Jones, Jean. "Sending districts Maurice River, Commercial, Lawrence, Woodbine suing Millville School District over tuition rates", The News of Cumberland County, April 13, 2009. Accessed March 29, 2011. "The suit, filed in the state Administrative Law Court, asks the commissioner of education to resolve a dispute about the method which the Millville school district is using to estimate and audit tuition for four sending districts. The four districts, Maurice River, Commercial, Lawrence and Woodbine, have joined in the suit with Maurice River as the lead agency."
  6. Howard, Kevin. "More Than 20 Millville Men Honored for Their Sacrifice in WWI", SNJ Today, April 21, 2017. Accessed January 25, 2018. "One hundred years later, the Millville Historical Society is honoring more than 20 men from Millville who heard the call from their country and perished while serving in WWI.... Jones started her research with the names on the bronze plaque at the Millville Memorial High School, and the names on the WWI Monument on 4th and Wheaton Avenue in Millville. 'While teaching U.S. History at Millville Memorial High School, I stopped to read the bronze tablets flanking the doors to Memorial's auditorium,' says Jones. 'I was surprised to learn that the school was "Dedicated in Memory of the Men from Millville who made the Supreme Sacrifice in the World War."'"
  7. Smith, Joseph P. "Millville planners get look at high school expansion", The Daily Journal (New Jersey), March 15, 2016. "Schematic designs submitted to New Jersey for a proposed $110 million Millville Senior High School expansion were laid out before city planners Monday night.... On completion, the district will be able to consolidate at the senior high all freshman classes and those sophomore classes now in Memorial High School.... Additional space will allow the student population to increase from 1,200 now, approximately, to about 2,300."
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