Wildwood High School

Wildwood High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Wildwood, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Wildwood Public School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1991.[4] Students from North Wildwood, West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest attend Wildwood High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective school districts.[5]

This article is about the public high school in Wildwood, New Jersey. For others of a similar name, see Wild Wood High School (disambiguation).

Wildwood High School
Address
4300 Pacific Avenue

Wildwood
,
Cape May County
,
New Jersey
08260

United States
Coordinates38.985653°N 74.819157°W / 38.985653; -74.819157
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtWildwood Public School District
NCES School ID3417940[1]
PrincipalPhilip Schaffer
Faculty32.0 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment248 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio7.8:1[1]
Color(s)  Maroon and
  white[2]
Athletics conferenceTri-County Conference[3]
Team nameWarriors[2]
Websitenj02210961.schoolwires.net/wildwoodhigh

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 248 students and 32.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.8:1. There were 177 students (71.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 4 (1.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as honoring schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".[6][7]

The school was the 285th-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 244th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 279th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[9] The magazine ranked the school 253rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.[10] The school was ranked 299th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[11] Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 321st out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 11 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 Wildwood High School Warriors[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 188 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015–16 school year as South Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 78 to 478 students in that grade range.[14] The football team competes in the Classic 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 boys' basketball team won the Group II state title in 1940 vs. Bogota High School and 1941 vs. Pompton Lakes High School, and won the Group I title in 1942 against Bernardsville High School, in 1961 vs. North Arlington High School and in 1964 vs. Wallington High School.[18][19]

The softball team won the Group I state championship in 1976, defeating Wood-Ridge High School in the final round of the tournament.[20]

The girls' basketball team won the 1991 Group I state championship (against runner-up Cresskill High School in the finals), 2000 (vs. North Warren Regional High School) and in both 2001 and 2002 (against Mountain Lakes High School both seasons).[21]

Notable alumni

Administration

The principal is Phil Schaffer. His administration team includes the assistant principal / athletic director.[27]

References
  1. School data for Wildwood High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Wildwood High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. Member Schools, Tri-County Conference. Accessed November 18, 2020.
  4. Wildwood High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 4, 2011.
  5. Wildwood High School 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed August 7, 2017. "Wildwood High School services all of the districts on the island (Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, North Wildwood and West Wildwood.)"
  6. Rundquist, Jeanette. "15 N.J. schools named as national 'Blue Ribbon' winners", The Star-Ledger, September 24, 2013. Accessed September 25, 2013. "Five Catholic schools, six county vocational-technical schools and a Yeshiva are among the list of honored schools in New Jersey. Also named as 2013 Blue Ribbon Schools were Dover, Harrison and Wildwood high schools."
  7. 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private, pp. 15-17. United States Department of Education, National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Accessed September 25, 2013.
  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 September 20, 2012.
  10. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed December 4, 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 January 5, 2012.
  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. NJSIAA Boys Basketball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2020.
  19. McGarry, Michael. "Boys High School State Basketball Preview / Three's Company / 60 Years Ago, Wildwood Boys Won Third Consecutive State Title", The Press of Atlantic City, March 10, 2002. Accessed August 5, 2007. "Wildwood defeated Bogota 34-18 to win the 1940 state Group II title. The Warriors beat Pompton Lakes 39-35 in the 1941 state Group II title game.... Senekoff did it his way, and it worked. He made both to give Wildwood a 38-37 victory and its third straight state title - a feat no other local team has matched."
  20. History of the NJSIAA Softball Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2020.
  21. NJSIAA Girls Basketball Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  22. .LeConey, Bill. "NFL Football / Wildwood Native Helped Jets Make History 30 Years Ago", The Press of Atlantic City, January 31, 1999. Accessed August 5, 2007. "They knew their favorite son - a three-sport star at Wildwood High School, Class of 1962 - had made a big play for the underdog New York Jets in Super Bowl III against the Baltimore Colts."
  23. Dubin, Murray. "A Journey From Songs To Seashells", The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 4, 1999. Accessed May 28, 2013. "North Wildwood, N.J. — He has worked for and with people you read about or listen to: Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Aerosmith, Madonna, Rick Springfield and hundreds more.... Antonio Fulginiti was one of the first Italians on the island in 1900, but his grandson, Gregory, left for New York as quickly as he could, one day after his graduation from Wildwood High School in 1969."
  24. Raven, Benjamin. "Wildwood's Wes Hills nearly brought to tears upon learning of start after long journey to NFL", The Press of Atlantic City, December 16, 2019. Accessed February 5, 2020. "Wildwood High School graduate Wes Hills, left, of the Detroit Lions, battles for yards in the fourth quarter against Andrew Adams of Tampa Bay on Sunday. Hills scored two TDs in his NFL debut."
  25. via Associated Press. "Pittsburgh's Osborn Plays Three Sports", Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1987. Accessed August 10, 2016. "His friends call the Wildwood Crest, N.J., native 'The Wizard of Oz.'... Osborn won 11 varsity letters at Wildwood High before being recruited by former Pitt football coach Foge Fazio."
  26. Staff. "Wildwood High School graduate Frank Vogel promoted to interim head coach of Indiana Pacers", The Press of Atlantic City, January 30, 2011. Accessed January 30, 2011. "Vogel, a 1991 Wildwood High School graduate who was promoted from assistant coach, will take over for the rest of the season."
  27. Administration, Wildwood School District. Accessed April 19, 2020.

Further reading
  • "Cape May County High School Yearbooks: All Listings". Cape May County Library. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
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