Woodstown High School

Woodstown High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Woodstown and Pilesgrove Township, in Salem County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District.

Woodstown High School
Address
140 East Avenue

Woodstown
,
Salem County
,
New Jersey
08098

United States
Coordinates39.651295°N 75.321618°W / 39.651295; -75.321618
Information
TypePublic
School districtWoodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District
NCES School ID3418330[1]
PrincipalRichard Senor
Asst. principalMichelle Spaventa
Faculty48.6 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment603 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio12.4:1[1]
Color(s)  Royal Blue and
  Burnt Orange[2]
Athletics conferenceTri-County Conference[3]
Team nameWolverines[2]
Websitewww.woodstown.org/Domain/8

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 603 students and 48.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.4:1. There were 100 students (16.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 21 (3.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Students from neighboring Alloway Township, Oldmans Township and Upper Pittsgrove Township attend the high school as part of sending/receiving relationships.[4][5] A majority of public school students in grades 9-12 from Oldmans Township attend Penns Grove High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Penns Grove-Carneys Point Regional School District, with the balance attending Woodstown High School.[6][7]

The principal is Richard Senor; the assistant principal is Michelle Spaventa.[8]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 137th-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.[9] 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.[10] The magazine ranked the school 187th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[11] The school was ranked 171st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[12]

Athletics

The Woodstown High School Wolverines[2] compete as one of the member schools in the Tri-County Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools located in Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties.[3] The conference is overseen by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[13] With 496 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 496 to 778 students in that grade range.[14] The football team competes in the Diamond Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference[15][16] and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I South for football for 2018–2020.[17] 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.[2]

The field hockey team won the South Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 1978, 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019.[18]

The baseball team won the Group II state chamoionship in 1991, defeating Summit High School in thr tournament final.[19]

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 Salem County Vocational Technical Schools.

Notable alumni
  • Fred Drains (born 1971), American-born and naturalized Swedish basketball player.[20]
  • David Mixner (born 1946), civil rights activist and best-selling author, best known for his work in anti-war and gay rights advocacy.[21]
  • Evan Edinger (born 1990), American-born YouTuber based in London, England[22]

References
  1. School data for Woodstown High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Woodstown High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. Member Schools, Tri-County Conference. Accessed November 18, 2020.
  4. About Us, Woodstown- Pilesgrove Regional School District. Located in Salem County, the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District consists of four schools: Early Childhood Learning Center (grades Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten), Mary S. Shoemaker Elementary School (grades 1 through 5), Woodstown Middle School (grades 6 through 8), and Woodstown High School (grades 9 through 12). All four schools serve the residents of the Borough of Woodstown and Township of Pilesgrove. In addition, the high school receives students from Alloway and Upper Pittsgrove Townships as well as a portion of Oldmans Township."
  5. Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 26, 2017. "This School Report Card provides the school district's constituents with information concerning the district's programs, including test scores, attendance data of students and staff, financial details, and other specifics which together form a comprehensive review of our school district's offerings to the Woodstown-Pilesgrove community as well as the high school sending districts of Alloway, Oldmans, and Upper Pittsgrove."
  6. Oldmans Township School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 26, 2017. "Oldmans sends students in grades 9-12 to the Penns Grove-Carneys Point and Woodstown School Districts, as well as the Academy Programs, and the Salem County Vocational Technical School."
  7. Bumpus, Robert L. "Salem County Report on Consolidation and Regionalization", Office of the Executive County Superintendent of Salem County, March 15, 2010, available at the website of the Asbury Park Press. Accessed July 5, 2011. "A contiguous elementary district, Oldmans Township, sends its students primarily to Penns Grove High School and a smaller number of students to Woodstown High School."
  8. District Administrators, Woodstown-Pilesgrove Township School District. Accessed January 27, 2020.
  9. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  10. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 5, 2012.
  11. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed March 21, 2011.
  12. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  13. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  14. General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  15. Divisions, West Jersey Football League. Accessed September 5, 2020.
  16. Minnick, Kevin. "Football: Entering 10th season, a new leader for state’s second-largest conference", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 8, 2019. Accessed September 5, 2020. "The WJFL was created in 2010 as a way to help teams play a full schedule and face opponents of similar size, ability and geographical location.... The league is comprised of 16 divisions and includes better than 90 high schools."
  17. NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2018–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, finalized August 2019. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  18. History of NJSIAA Field Hockey Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  19. NJSIAA Baseball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  20. All-Conference.pdf "Men's Basketball All-Conference Team", New Jersey Athletic Conference, March 4, 1992. Accessed February 1, 2017.
  21. Guide to the David Benjamin Mixner Papers, Yale University Library. Accessed September 26, 2017. "He graduated from Woodstown High School and attended Arizona State University (1964-1967) and the University of Maryland (1967)."
  22. https://archive.is/o2tBv
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