Point Pleasant Borough High School

Point Pleasant Borough High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school located on Laura Herbert Drive in Point Pleasant in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades, operating as the lone secondary school of the Point Pleasant School District. The mascot is the panther, and the school colors are black and gold.[2]

Point Pleasant Borough High School
Address
808 Laura Herbert Drive

Point Pleasant
,
Ocean County
,
New Jersey
08742

United States
Coordinates40.080057°N 74.07133°W / 40.080057; -74.07133
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtPoint Pleasant School District
NCES School ID3413290[1]
PrincipalKurt Karcich
Faculty76.0 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment822 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio10.8:1[1]
Color(s)  Black and
  gold[2]
Athletics conferenceShore Conference[3]
Team namePanthers[2]
Websiteppbhs.pointpleasant.k12.nj.us

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 822 students and 76.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 85 students (10.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 24 (2.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 98th-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.[4] The school had been ranked 154th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 133rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[5] The magazine ranked the school 172nd in 2008 out of 316 schools.[6] The school was ranked 117th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[7] Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 64th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 132 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.8%) and language arts literacy (97.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[8]

Demographics
  • 1,020 White
  • 27 Hispanic
  • 6 Black
  • 9 Asian/Pacific Islander[1]

Athletics

The Point Pleasant Borough High School Panthers[2] compete in Division B South of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprised of private and public high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore.[3][9] The conference operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[10] With 598 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range.[11] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II South for football for 2018–2020.[12]

The school participates in a joint ice hockey team with Jackson Memorial High School in which Jackson Liberty High School is the host school / lead agency. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.[13]

The boys' baseball team won the Central Jersey Group I state title in 1966.[14]

The boys' soccer team won the Group II state championship in 1968 (defeating runner-up Verona High School in the championship game) and 1972 (vs. Lawrence High School).[15] The 1968 team won the Group II title with a 2-0 win against Verona in the championship game played at Hightstown High School.[16]The 1972 team finished the season with a record of 18-2 after defeating three-time returning champion Lawrence High School by a score of 2-0 in the Group II tournament final played at Glassboro State College.[17][18]

The football team has won the South Jersey Group II state sectional championship in 1977, 1978 and 2005.[19] The 1978 team won the program's second consecutive South Jersey Group II title with a 21-16 win against Maple Shade High School in the championship game.[20] The team won the 2005 title with a 43-0 win against Camden High School in the playoff finals, finishing the season with a record of 12-0.[21]

The girls' basketball team won the Group II state championship in 1996, defeating James Caldwell High School in the tournament final.[22]

The wrestling team the South Jersey Group II state sectional championship in 2007 and 2018.[23] The team won the 2007 South Jersey, Group II sectional title with a 31-26 win over Cinnaminson High School.[24]

Marching band

The marching band was the Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Invitational Class A winners in Group 3 in 2019.[25]

Administration

The school's principal is Kurt Karcich. His core administration team includes two vice principals.[26]

MRSA

In October 2007, a female on the soccer team was diagnosed with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The school, one of several in the area to experience these infections, was reopened after classrooms and other portions of the school were disinfected.[27]

Notable alumni

References
  1. School data for Point Pleasant Borough High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Point Pleasant Borough High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. Shore Conference Realignment for 2018-2019 and 2019-2020, Shore Conference. Accessed November 15, 2020.
  4. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  5. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 9, 2012.
  6. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 27, 2011.
  7. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  8. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 27, 2012.
  9. Member Schools, Shore Conference. Accessed November 15, 2020.
  10. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  11. NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  12. NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2018–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, finalized August 2019. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  13. NJSIAA Winter Cooperative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2020.
  14. NJSIAA Baseball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  15. NJSIAA History of Boys Soccer, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  16. "Verona Booters Do Fine In State Soccer Tourney", Verona-Cedar Grove Times, November 26, 1968. Accessed February 3, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Fresh from a semi-final victory over Hanover Park last Thursday in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association soccer tournament, the booters from Verona High School were shutout by Point Pleasant Boro on Saturday in the game to determine the Group II state championship. A flock of crows chattered from the South Jersey countryside and greeted the teams and the spectators who had traveled to the Hightstown High School field to see the thrilling final match that ended 2-0 in favor of Point Pleasant."
  17. LoGiudice, Daniel. "NJ boys soccer: 30 greatest Jersey Shore teams ever", Asbury Park Press, June 16, 2020. Accessed December 8, 2020. "1972 Point Pleasant Boro (18-2) - After winning its first group title in 1968, Point Boro responded with its second title in 1972 by defeating Lawrence 2-0 in the Group II championship game, ending Lawrence's three-year run as state champions."
  18. "Howell, Point Pleasant Boro Capture State Soccer Titles", Asbury Park Press, November 25, 1972. Accessed January 15, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Point Pleasant Boro, Shore Conference Class D champion, added a much bigger title to its list yesterday defeating Lawrence, 2-0, to win the N.J. State Interscholastic Athletic Association Group II soccer crown at Glassboro State College. It was the second state title for Boro since the Panthers won the Group II crown in 1968 over Verona. Boro (18-2) got the jump on the Lawrence Cardinals then played one of its strongest defensive games of the season in blanking the 11-6-1 club."
  19. NJSIAA Football History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  20. Makin, Rick. "Point Pleasant Takes 2nd Straight Crown", Asbury Park Press, December 3, 1978. Accessed December 30, 2020, via Newspapers.com. "The head coach of the Point Pleasant Boro High School football team started to sniffle back the tears while talking to reporters after his team won its second straight South Jersey Group II championship yesterday with a hard-fought 21-16 victory over a physical and stubborn Maple Shade team."
  21. Point Pleasant Boro vs. Camden, Maxpreps.com. Accessed February 12, 2008.
  22. NJSIAA Girls Basketball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  23. NJSIAA Wrestling Team Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
  24. 2007 Team Wrestling Tournament - South, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 24, 2007.
  25. Atlantic Coast Champions by Year, Tournament of Bands. Accessed October 12, 2020.
  26. Staff, Point Pleasant Borough High School, Accessed January 14, 2021.
  27. More MRSA Cases Reported at Area Schools, WPVI, October 19, 2007. Accessed October 19, 2007. "In South Jersey, Point Pleasant Boro High School is open after buildings were disinfected because a student has been diagnosed with a drug-resistant bacteria infection. On the district's Web site, school officials say the student, who is not identified, is receiving treatment for MRSA.
  28. Senator Andrew Ciesla biography Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 10, 2007.
  29. DiStephan, Denise. "Playing Broadway's Mary Poppins is a Spoonful of Sugar for Point Pleasant Borough Native: Elizabeth DeRosa on a jolly holiday as an ensemble cast member and Mary understudy" Archived January 31, 2013, at Archive.today, PointPleasantPatch, March 12, 2011. Accessed July 14, 2012. "Elizabeth DeRosa waited anxiously in the wings to send her dreams soaring. The Point Pleasant Borough High School graduate listened for her cue as her fellow actors performed Mary Poppins on a Broadway stage."
  30. Staff. "Sports Shorts: Edgar drops 1st MMA fight", Asbury Park Press, April 4, 2008. Accessed February 27, 2011. "Also on that same card Kurt Pellegrino, a former Point Pleasant Boro High School wrestling star, was defeated by a submission choke hold by Nate Diaz in a 155-pound fight."
  31. Christie Rampone profile, United States Olympic Committee. Accessed March 22, 2007
  32. Christie Rampone player profile, Women's United Soccer Association. Accessed March 22, 2007
  33. "Diamond Dallas Page" by Ross Davies, p. 22. "By twelfth grade, he was starting every game for the Point Pleasant Boro High School team."
  34. Zedalis, Joe. "Soraya stood out at Point Borough and around world", Asbury Park Press, May 14, 2006. Accessed February 27, 2011. "The Point Pleasant Borough High School graduate and Latin Grammy Award winner whose fight against breast cancer raised awareness about the disease in the Latino community died Wednesday in Miami said a spokeswoman for her record label EMI Latin said...."
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