Cherokee High School (New Jersey)

Cherokee High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of four high schools of the Lenape Regional High School District in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The communities in the district are Evesham Township, Medford Lakes, Medford Township, Mount Laurel Township, Shamong Township, Southampton Township, Tabernacle Township and Woodland Township.[6][7] Cherokee serves students from Evesham Township.[8] The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1978.[5]

Cherokee High School
Address
120 Tomlinson Mill Road

Marlton
,
Burlington County
,
New Jersey
08053

United States
Coordinates39.8742°N 74.8975°W / 39.8742; -74.8975
Information
TypePublic high school
Established1975 (1975)[1]
School districtLenape Regional High School District
SuperintendentCarol Birnbohm
NCES School ID3408490[2]
PrincipalDonna Charlesworth[3]
Faculty177.0 FTEs[2]
Grades9–12
Enrollment2,144 (as of 2018–19)[2]
Student to teacher ratio12.1:1[2]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)  Brown and
  Orange[4]
Team nameChiefs[4]
AccreditationMiddle States Association of Colleges and Schools[5]
PublicationScribe
NewspaperThe Cherokee Scout
YearbookTalking Leaves
TelevisionChief TV, LDTV
Websitewww.lrhsd.org/cherokee

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,144 students and 177.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 154 students (7.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 71 (3.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

History

Cherokee High School opened in 1975 as the district's third high school.[9]

The school was known as simply Cherokee High School until the addition of the "South" building in 2001, at which time the original building was renamed as "Cherokee High School North."[10]

In 2018, with the retirement of the South principal, Leonard Iannelli, Cherokee eliminated the position, effectively merging the North and South building into one school.[11]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 80th-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.[12] The school had been ranked 157th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 134th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[13] The magazine ranked the school 152nd in 2008 out of 316 schools.[14] The school was ranked 131st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[15] Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 86th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 30 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 (97.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[16]

Athletics

The Cherokee High School Chiefs[4] participate in the Olympic Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools located in Burlington and Camden counties, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.[17] With 1,616 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.[18] The football team competes in the American Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference[19][20] and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group V South for football for 2018–2020.[21]

Basketball championships
Girls field hockey championships
  • State sectional titles: South Jersey Group IV – 1997[26]
Football championships[27]
Boys soccer
Baseball
  • 1985 New Jersey Group IV champions (23–2),[37] South Jersey Group IV Champions, ranked 15th in nation by USA Today
  • 2005 South Jersey Group IV Champions, 2015 SJ Group IV Runner up. (13–1 win vs. Washington Township High School)[38]
  • 2009 Diamond Classic Tournament Champions
Softball championships[39]
Cross country
  • Meet of Champions: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 (ranked 3rd in NE, 8th in nation), 2007[46]
  • Group IV state champions: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007[47]
  • South Jersey Group IV sectional champions: 1988, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2011, 2016[48]
Girls lacrosse

Notable alumni

Other schools in the district

Other schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[69]) are:[10][70]

  • Lenape High School[71] – located in Medford Township, with 1,895 students from Mount Laurel Township
  • Seneca High School[72] – located in Tabernacle Township, with 1,137 students from Shamong, Southampton Tabernacle and Woodland Townships
  • Shawnee High School[73] – located in Medford Township, with 1,597 students from Medford Lakes and Medford Township

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  29. Kelly Tim. "Defense lights way in Chiefs' Group 4 victory", Courier-Post, December 5, 1983. Accessed December 24, 2020, via Newspapers.com. "Eulo called the defensive signals in fourth-ranked Cherokee's stunning 16-6 defeat of Washington Township, the top-ranked team in both the Courier-Post Top 20 and state poll."
  30. Staff. "Cherokee defeats Egg Harbor Twp., 14-0", The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 6, 2009. Accessed July 25, 2011. "All were in force yesterday, with an emphasis on the defensive part, as Cherokee defeated visiting Egg Harbor Township, 14-0, in the South Jersey Group 4 championship game."
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  36. Staff. "Cherokee High School boys soccer team honored at Evesham Township Council meeting", The Central Record, December 8, 2011. Accessed February 7, 2015. "The Cherokee High School boys varsity soccer team was honored at a recent Evesham Township Council meeting for winning its second straight Group IV state championship."
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  68. Staff. "Trump signs on to NBC reality show", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 13, 2003. Accessed June 4, 2012. "Marlton native Nicole Wood (Cherokee High 1988) marked her 10th anniversary as a Playboy Playmate with a Friday shindig at the Old City club 32°."
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