Asbury Park High School

Asbury Park High School is a comprehensive, six-year community public high school serving students in seventh through twelfth grades headquartered in a landmark building in Asbury Park, Monmouth County New Jersey, United States, constructed during the New Deal as a model high school campus. The school is part of the Asbury Park Public Schools, an Abbott District[7] that serves children in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The current school building opened to students in September 1926.[8]

Asbury Park High School
Location
Asbury Park High School
Asbury Park High School
Asbury Park High School
1003 Sunset Avenue
Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712

United States
Coordinates40.227847°N 74.013208°W / 40.227847; -74.013208
Information
TypePublic high school
MottoBuilding a brighter future
Established1926
School districtAsbury Park Public Schools
NCES School ID3400930[1]
PrincipalKathy Baumgardner[2]
Faculty38.5 FTEs[1]
Grades7-12
Enrollment420 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio10.9:1[1]
Color(s)     Columbia Blue and
     Black[3]
Athletics conferenceShore Conference
Team nameBishops[3]
RivalsNeptune HS[4][5]
Long Branch HS[6]
WebsiteSchool website

As part of a reconfiguration of district schools announced in July 2019, students in grades 7 and 8 will attend classes in the high school starting in September 2020.[9][10]

Students from Deal attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Students from Belmar attend either Asbury Park High School or Manasquan High School.[11] Students from Allenhurst and Interlaken had attended the district's schools as part of sending/receiving relationships that have since been terminated. Interlaken received permission of the Commissioner New Jersey Department of Education in July 2014 to terminate its sending agreement with Asbury Park, which was replaced with a new relationship with the West Long Branch Public Schools for grades K-8 and with Shore Regional High School for grades 9-12.[12] In July 2017, the DoE's Acting Commissioner approved a plan by Allenhurst to end its sending relationship with Asbury Park and join Interlaken in sending to West Long Branch and Shore Regional.[13] The nearly 40 public school students from Allenhurst would start transitioning to the new sending districts as the relationship with Asbury Park is severed.[14]

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 420 students and 38.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1. There were 202 students (48.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 313th-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.[15] The school had been ranked 177th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 280th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[16] The magazine ranked the school 281st in 2008 out of 316 schools.[17] The school was ranked 296th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[18] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 379th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 12 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (16.7%) and language arts literacy (46.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[19]

Athletics

The Asbury Park High School Bishops[3] compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore.[20] All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[21] With 264 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015–16 school year as Central Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 12 to 467 students in that grade range.[22]

The girls' basketball team won the Group III state titles in 1976 and 1977, defeating Paramus Catholic High School in both years and won the Group II state championship in 1985 vs. Somerville High School. The boys team won the Group IV title in 1936 vs. Emerson High School, in 1941 vs. West New York Memorial High School, in 1943 vs. Trenton Central High School, won Group II titles in 1978 vs. Lodi High School and in 1987 vs. Orange High School, and won Group I titles in 2011 vs. Jonathan Dayton High School and in 2012 vs. University High School [23]

The school's football team won the Central Jersey Group II title in both 1980 and 1984, before winning the Central Jersey Group I state sectional championships in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011.[24] The 2007 football team won the Central Jersey, Group I state sectional championship with a 32–18 win over Keansburg High School in a game played at Rutgers Stadium, finishing the season with an 11–1 record and earning its first state title in more than 20 years.[25][26] The program won its seventh title in 2016, when the team defeated Keyport High School by a score of 26–17 in the tournament final of the Central Jersey Group I state sectional championships.[27]

The school's track and field and cross country teams have a history of accomplishment dating back to the 1950s. The boys' cross country teams were Group IV state co-champions, Group II state champions in 1990 and 1993, Group II sectional champions in 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1991. In outdoor track and field, The Blue Bishops were Group II state champions in 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1993 and Group I state champions in 1988. They won the Group III sectional championships in 1977, Group II 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and were Group I Sectional Champions in 1988. The Blue Bishops boys' team was relay state champions in Group III in 1977, in Group II in 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985 and in Group I in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995; the 15 state titles and eight consecutive titles from 1988 to 1995 are the most of any public school in the state. The girls' team won the Group I/II title in 1981 and the Group II title in both 1992 and 1993.[28] The Blue Bishops won the indoor open championships Group III 1977 and 1980, Group II 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996, Group I 1988.

Notable alumni

References
  1. School data for Asbury Park High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Principal's Corner, Asbury Park School District. Accessed November 10, 2019.
  3. Asbury Park High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2015.
  4. Stump, Scott. "After horrible tragedy, Jaashawn Jones keeps his NFL dream alive", Sports Illustrated, April 24, 2012. Accessed June 12, 2012. "While Young starred as a running back at a high school one county away and Curry played for Asbury Park's longtime rival, Neptune High, Jones attended tiny Academy Charter, a school of 140 students two towns over in Lake Como."
  5. Staff. "Thanksgiving Day football was a memorable rivalry", Asbury Park Press, September 20, 2003. Accessed June 12, 2012. "I am wondering how many Asbury Park residents remember the annual Thanksgiving Day rivalry between the Asbury Park High School and Neptune High football teams."
  6. Stump, Scott. "GOLDEN AGE Fifty years ago, Asbury Park's undefeated football team made being No.1 in New Jersey look easy", Asbury Park Press, October 25, 2003. Accessed June 12, 2012. "The most pressing question by the middle of 1953 was how Asbury Park would fare in its game with Long Branch, its main rival in those days."
  7. Abbott School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 15, 2016.
  8. Staff. "$1,000,000 High School Opens.", The New York Times, September 14, 1926. Accessed September 3, 2015. "Asbury Park, N. J., Sept. 13. - The doors of the new million dollar high school here, which has been under construction for two years, were thrown open this morning to 800 students."
  9. Strupp, Joe. "Asbury Park Schools shake-up would close one school, expand high school grades", [Asbury Park Press]], July 8, 2019. Accessed July 9, 2020. "A major school shake-up is being proposed by the Asbury Park School District that would mean fewer elementary schools and more grades in the high school, officials announced. The move is aimed at offsetting a sharp state aid reduction and expected future cutbacks from Trenton, along with ongoing enrollment declines.... Martin Luther King Middle School would switch from sixth grade to eighth grade and become fourth grade to sixth grade. Asbury Park High School would then become seventh grade to 12th Grade 12th grade."
  10. "Message from the Superintendent’s Office", Blue Bishops Bulletin, Spring 2020.Accessed July 11, 2020. "Effective September 2020, we will undergo a building realignment where all Pre-K to 3 students will attend Bradley and Thurgood Marshall Elementary Schools; the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School will house grades 4 to 6, and be reclassified as an upper elementary school; and the Asbury Park High School will be home to grades 7 to 12."
  11. Cheslow, Jerry. "Living In/Belmar, N.J.; Pushing Back on a Rowdy Reputation", The New York Times, June 20, 2004. Accessed June 12, 2012. "From Belmar Elementary, students are slotted to go to either Manasquan High School or Asbury Park High School, according to a 56-44 percent formula worked out with the New Jersey Department of Education in the late 1940s."
  12. Oglesby, Amanda. "Interlaken breaks from Asbury schools", Asbury Park Press, July 31, 2014. Accessed February 5, 2020. "Borough students have attended West Long Branch schools and Shore Regional High School for a number of years, but finally received formal approval of the three districts’ agreement two weeks ago. Despite attending both schools for years, Interlaken students were still in a send-receive relationship with Asbury Park School District, an agreement that has existed for decades, according to Jennifer Osborne, an attorney who represents Interlaken’s Board of Education. But that changed two weeks ago, when acting state Education Commissioner David Hespe approved an end to Interlaken’s agreement with Asbury Park and the creation of a new send-receive relationship with West Long Branch and Shore Regional."
  13. In The Matter Of The Petition Of The Board Of Education Of The Borough Of Allenhurst, Monmouth County, For Authorization To Sever A Sending-Receiving Relationship With The Board Of Education Of The City Of Asbury Park, Monmouth County, And To Enter Into A Sending-Receiving Relationship With The Board Of Education Of The Borough Of West Long Branch, Monmouth County, And The Board Of Education Of The Shore Regional High School District, Monmouth County., New Jersey Department of Education, July 20, 2017. "It Is Ordered on this 20th day of July, 2017 that – pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:38-13 and N.J.A.C. 6A:3-6.1 – Allenhurst’s application for authorization to sever its sending-receiving relationship with Asbury Park, and enter into sending-receiving relationships with West Long Branch and Shore Regional, as set forth in its petition of appeal, is Approved, thereby terminating the sending-receiving relationship between Allenhurst and Asbury Park, and establishing sending-receiving relationships with West Long Branch and Shore Regional, which will permit Allenhurst students to attend school in these two districts."
  14. Stine, Don. "Allenhurst Ends Sending-Receiving Relationship with Asbury Park School District", The Coaster, August 7, 2017. "Allenhurst is following in the footsteps of its two neighboring towns and will begin to send its students to West Long Branch Elementary School and to Shore Regional High School on a per-pupil tuition basis. Board of Education President Larry O’Rourke said that Allenhurst school board officials saw Interlaken and Loch Arbour recently make the same move with permission of state Acting-Commissioner of Education Kimberly Harrington.... O’Rourke said Allenhurst has about 38 school-age children and that some may be able to start attending their new schools this September but he added that no contracts with the two schools have yet been signed."
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  29. Karas, Matthew. "Former city man new manager of Elvis' first studio", Asbury Park Press, August 15, 1987. Accessed January 23, 2018. "Growing up in Asbury Park, Dave Aron didn't know much about Elvis Presley. When he wanted to get real, real gone, his preference was for Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd.... Aron, after graduation from Asbury Park High School and a year at Rutgers University, transferred to Memphis State University to study sound recording."
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  43. Mullen, Shannon. "All About Lenny Welch; Future is still bright for '60s hitmaker from Asbury Park", Asbury Park Press, November 13, 2015. Accessed June 24, 2019. "A decade before Bruce Springsteen released his debut album, "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.," Lenny Welch was that city's pop-music hero, particularly within Asbury Park's black community.'He was the one who put the map,' says Carl Williams, 64, of Lakewood, who attended Asbury Park High School a year behind Welch in the late '50s and remembers how the city stood still during the singer's first appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand."
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