Montville Township High School

Montville Township High School
Location
Montville Township High School
Montville Township High School
Montville Township High School
100 Horseneck Road
Montville, NJ 07045
Information
Type Public high school
Motto "You Can't Hide From Mustang Pride"
School district Montville Township School District
Principal Douglas Sanford
Asst. principal Michael C. Shera
Faculty 117.6 (on FTE basis)[1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 1,298[1] (as of 2013-14)
Student to teacher ratio 11.0:1[1]
Color(s)      Green and
     White[2]
Athletics conference Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference
Team name Mustangs[2]
Website School website

Montville Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Montville Township, in suburban Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The school was founded in 1971 and serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Montville Township School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1975.[3] In its first three years, MTHS served 8th through 12th grades. The 8th grade held a separate graduation in each of those years and the 8th grade class of 1974 was the youngest group of students in both the '73-'74 school year (as 8th graders) and the '74-'75 school year, as high school freshman, when the 8th grade moved to Central School.

As of the 2013-14 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,298 students and 117.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.0:1. There were 37 students (2.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 10 (0.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

In its listing of "America's Best High Schools 2016", the school was ranked 198th out of 500 best high schools in the country; it was ranked 31st among all high schools in New Jersey and 15th among the state's non-magnet schools.[4]

In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast ranked the school 415th in the nation among participating public high schools and 34th among schools in New Jersey.[5]

In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 41st in New Jersey and 1,346th nationwide.[6] In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Montville High School was listed in 964th place, the 28th-highest ranked school in New Jersey.[7]

The school was the 51st-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 39th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 47th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[9] The magazine ranked the school 54th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[10] The school was ranked 49th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.[11]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 114th out of 389 public high schools statewide in its 2012 rankings (a decrease of 42 positions from the 2011 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (88.2%) and language arts literacy (96.7%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[12]

Graduate statistics

Based on data for the Class of 2013-14 from the New Jersey School Report Card, the graduation rate was 99%. Average SAT scores were 581 Mathematics, 548 Critical Reading and 554 Writing, for a composite score of 1683, vs. statewide averages of 496/521/497 and a composite of 1514; Of students who took the SAT, 65.1% met the standard of college readiness with a composite score of 1550, vs. a statewide average of 44.6%. There were 19 AP courses offered / exams taken, with 42.1% of students taking at least one exam and 84.5% scoring 3 or above.[13]

Athletics

The Montville High School Mustangs[2] compete in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, an athletic conference of private and public high schools located in Morris County, Sussex County and Warren County, in Northern New Jersey, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[14] With 1,001 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2014-15 school year as North I, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 754 to 1,076 students in that grade range.[15] Montville is assigned to the American Division for most sports. Prior to the NJSIAA's realignment that took effect in the fall of 2009, Montville was a member of the Suburban Division of the Northern Hills Conference.[16]

The boys baseball team won the Group II state championship in 1978 vs. South Brunswick High School.[17]

The girls' field hockey team won the North II Group II state sectional championship in 1975 and 1977, and the North II Group III state sectional title in 1980, 1981, 1983 and 1984. The team won the Group III state championship in 1980 (vs. Ocean Township High School), 1981 (vs. Camden Catholic High School) and 1983 (as co-champion with Hillsborough High School).[18]

The girls' lacrosse team won the 1984 overall state championship in 1984, defeating Moorestown Friends School in the tournament final.[19]

The girls' track team won the Group I indoor relay state championship in 2002.[20]

In 2003, the Montville Mustang football team set school records with nine wins and six shut outs, winning in the first round of the state sectionals before losing in the state semi-final game, earning induction into the Montville Township Hall of Fame in 2011.[21][22]

The 2007 Mustang baseball team defeated Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, 9-7, to take the North I Group III section title for the first time since 1989.[23]

In 2001, the Montville boys' soccer team won the North II, Group II state sectional title with a 2-1 win in the championship game against Pequannock Township High School in sudden death overtime.[24] In 2009, the Montville boys' soccer team tied Madison High School 0-0 in the final of the Morris County tournament. The shared title was the first in the program's history.[25] The Mustangs went on to win their third ever sectional title, beating Northern Highlands Regional High School 2-0 in the final.[26] In 2010, Montville captured the Morris County boys' soccer title outright, winning 1-0 in overtime against Chatham High School.[27] The Mustangs also repeated as sectional champions, defeating Wayne Valley High School 5-1 in the section final for their fourth ever title.[28]

The boys' wrestling team won the North I Group III state sectional championship in 2009.[29]

The boys' bowling team won the Group III state championship in 2014.[30]

In 2014, Meg Hishmeh was hired as the head coach of the boys' ice hockey team to steer the team in a new direction, becoming the first women hockey coach of a boys' team in the state.[31]

Extracurricular activities

The school's marching band won the USBands Group III A national championship in 2015 with their program Equilibrium.[32]

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:[33]

Notable alumni

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 School Data for Montville Township High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Montville Township High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Montville Township High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools, backed up by the Internet Archive as of April 24, 2012. Accessed March 26, 2015.
  4. ↑ Staff. "America's Best High Schools 2016", Newsweek. Accessed November 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ Streib, Lauren. "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast, May 6, 2013. Accessed May 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ Mathews, Jay. "The High School Challenge 2011: Montville High School", The Washington Post. Accessed September 8, 2011.
  7. ↑ "The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools", Newsweek, May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.
  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 December 2, 2012.
  10. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 23, 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 2011-2012, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 5, 2013.
  13. ↑ Montville Township High School 2013-14 School Performance Report, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed March 27, 2015.
  14. ↑ League Memberships – 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  15. ↑ 2014-2015 Public Schools Group Classification: ShopRite Cup–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for North I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of July 8, 2014. Accessed October 14, 2014.
  16. ↑ Home Page, Northern Hills Conference, backed up by the Internet Archive as of January 28, 2011. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  17. ↑ History of the NJSIAA Baseball Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  18. ↑ History of the NJSIAA Field Hockey Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  19. ↑ History of the NJSIAA Girls' Lacrosse Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  20. ↑ History of the NJSIAA Indoor Relay Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  21. ↑ Staff. "Montville inducts 2003 football champs, eight alumni, administrator into Hall of Fame", The Citizen of Morris County, September 19, 2011. Accessed October 15, 2011.
  22. ↑ 2011 MTHS Hall of Fame: 2003 Football Team. Montville Township High School. Accessed March 29, 2012.
  23. ↑ 2007 Baseball - North I, Group III, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed June 12, 2007.
  24. ↑ Kedem, Dan. "Montville gets the 'golden goal' that downs Pequannock", North Jersey Sports, November 10, 2001. Accessed September 28, 2016. "Emotions ran high in the North 2 Group 2 boys soccer sectional final between Pequannock and Montville on Friday afternoon.... But it was Montville that emerged victorious after Philippe Cardona delivered the 'golden goal' five minutes into the second overtime for the 2-1 win."
  25. ↑ "Montville ties Madison in county final", Jersey Sports Now, November 1, 2009.
  26. ↑ "Montville wins section title over No. Highlands", Jersey Sports Now, November 13, 2009.
  27. ↑ "Montville beats Chatham for Morris County title", Jersey Sports Now, October 30, 2010.
  28. ↑ "Montville waxes Wayne Valley in section final", Jersey Sports Now, November 11, 2010.
  29. ↑ History of the NJSIAA Team Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  30. ↑ History of NJSIAA Boys' Bowling Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  31. ↑ Hageny, John Christian. "Ice Hockey: Meg Hishmeh breathes new life into Montville", The Star-Ledger, December 19, 2013. Accessed May 6, 2016. "In June, Meg Hishmeh was hired as the new coach of the Montville boys' ice hockey program. The first female coach installed at a boys' program in New Jersey, and only the second female coach in the Garden State joining Lawrenceville's Nicole Uliasz, Hishmeh met resistance, but after Montville's 3-2 triumph over Mount Olive last night helped it improve to a perfect 6-0 start the season in the Haas Division, said naysayers are now singing a different tune."
  32. ↑ "Congratulations to Our National Champions!", USBands. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  33. ↑ Administration, Montville Township High School. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  34. ↑ Hall of Fame / Welcome, Montville Township High School. Accessed July 17, 2016. "2005 Omar Amanat"
  35. ↑ Yahoo! Sports Profile, "Lester Archambeau", Yahoo! Sports
  36. ↑ Hall of Fame Member Profile: Lester Archambeau, accessed November 29, 2006.
  37. ↑ Marinello, Katie. "Jerseylicious Finale: Blois Sharpe Celebrates Future: With the Gatsby future uncertain, Olivia Blois Sharpe considers her options.", Montville Patch, October 17, 2011. Accessed November 10, 2011. "After five months, the Season 3 finale of Jerseylicious aired on Sunday with Montville Township High School grad Olivia Blois Sharpe contemplating her future."
  38. 1 2 Hall of Fame, Montville Township High School. Accessed November 10, 2011.
  39. ↑ Hectus, Suzanne, "Bruce Dostal: 'Hitting his pitch'" (PDF file), The Beacon, April 22, 1985. Sports p. 18.
  40. ↑ Hall of Fame Member Profile: Bruce Dostal, Montville Township High School. Accessed November 10, 2011. "Bruce graduated from MTHS in 1983 where he starred on both the football field and baseball diamond. As a football player, Bruce was a wide receiver with exceptional speed and great hands. He was second team All State as senior and All County and All Conference several times during football career at Montville."
  41. ↑ Staff. "Rutgers Recruiting Class Nationally Ranked: Scarlet Knights rated 27th by College Soccer News", Rutgers Scarlet Knights, August 3, 2007. Accessed February 23, 2011. "Highlighting this group of standout players is Dilly Duka (Montville, N.J.), a midfielder from Montville High School, who Reasso has described as one of the best attacking midfielders graduating from the state of New Jersey last spring."
  42. ↑ Lauren English, USA Swimming. Accessed December 9, 2007.
  43. ↑ 2011 MTHS Hall of Fame, Montville Township High School. Accessed March 29, 2012.
  44. ↑ "Hall of Fame Member profile: Dan O'Dowd".
  45. ↑ Fox, Ron. "MONTVILLE PRODUCED SUPER DUO", The Record (Bergen County), January 19, 1999. Accessed November 28, 2007.
  46. ↑ Hall of Fame Member Profile: Jim Price, accessed November 29, 2006.
  47. ↑ Hall of Fame Member Profile: Peter Verniero, accessed November 29, 2006.
  48. ↑ "Hall of Fame Member profile: Pete Yorn".

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