Lenape Valley Regional High School

Lenape Valley Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school and school district in serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from two municipalities in Sussex County and one in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The communities served by the high school are Byram Township and Stanhope Borough in Sussex County and Netcong Borough in Morris County. The school is located in Stanhope.[4][5][6]

This article is about Lenape Valley Regional High School. For Lenape High School, see Lenape High School.

Lenape Valley Regional High School
Address
28 Stanhope Sparta Road Stanhope, NJ 07874 United States
Coordinates	40.9207°N 74.6985°W / 40.9207; -74.6985
District information
Grades	9-12
Superintendent	Paul DiRupo
Business administrator	Robert G. Klinck
Schools	1
Students and staff
Enrollment	703 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Faculty	58.0 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio	12.1:1[1]
Other information
District Factor Group	GH
Website	District website
Ind. Per pupil District spending Rank (*) 9-12 average %± vs. average 1A Total Spending $19,569 14 $18,891 3.6% 1 Budgetary Cost 14,617 16 15,592 −6.3% 2 Classroom Instruction 7,896 11 8,807 −10.3% 6 Support Services 2,492 29 2,294 8.6% 8 Administrative Cost 1,756 32 1,592 10.3% 10 Operations & Maintenance 1,567 9 1,954 −19.8% 13 Extracurricular Activities 884 25 873 1.3% 16 Median Teacher Salary 66,643 21 71,726 Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2] *Of 9-12 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=47

Lenape Valley Regional High School
Address
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28 Stanhope Sparta Road Stanhope , NJ 07874 United States
Information
Type	Public
Established	1974
NCES School ID	3408500[1]
Principal	Thomas Claeys
Asst. principals	Jonathan DeSimone Douglas Reynolds
Faculty	58.0 FTEs[1]
Enrollment	691 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	11.9:1[1]
Color(s)	Red      White      Blue[3]
Athletics conference	Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference
Team name	Patriots[3]
Yearbook	Renaissance
Website	LVRHS Website

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 691 students and 58.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. There were 70 students (10.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 23 (3.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "GH", the third-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[7]

Lenape Valley had been the only high school in Sussex County with a planetarium.[8] In February 2016, the board of education voted to eliminate the planetarium and use the space for science labs.[9]

History

Netcong High School closed in 1974 and Lenape Valley began serving students from Netcong and those from Byram Township and Stanhope, who had previously attended Sparta High School.[10][11][12][13]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 180th-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.[14] The school had been ranked 120th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 108th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[15] The magazine ranked the school 105th out of 316 schools statewide in its September 2008 cover story. The school was ranked 139th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[16]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 145th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 2 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (82.9%) and language arts literacy (95.1%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[17]

In the 2013-14 school year, Lenape Valley Regional High School ranked seventh in SAT scores in Sussex County out of nine other public high schools.[18]

Extracurricular activities

Lenape Valley Regional High School offers a selection of sports, including football, soccer, cross country, tennis, wrestling, field hockey, swimming, basketball, and cheerleading.[19] It also has a weight room available. The school also offers business activities, creative writing-based courses and music courses, including choirs and bands.[20]

Athletics

The Lenape Valley Regional High School Patriots[3] participate in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[21][22] With 620 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North I, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 495 to 762 students in that grade range.[23] Until the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in the Sussex County Interscholastic League, which was made up of public and private high schools located in Sussex County and northern Morris County.[24]

The school operates as the host school / lead agency for joint boys' and girls' swimming programs with Newton High School, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2017-18 school year; Newton High School is the host school for a joint ice hockey program shared by the two schools that expires at the end of the 2019-20 school year.[25]

The football team won the North I Group II state sectional championships in 1977, 1981, 1989–1991, 1993 and 1999.[26] The Patriots made it to the 2004–05 NJSIAA Group II Section I state championship at Giants Stadium, falling in double overtime to Lakeland Regional High School Lancers by a score of 17-14.[27]

The field hockey team won the North I Group II state sectional championship in 1978 and 1990.[28]

The wrestling team won the North I Group II state sectional championship in 1985, the North I Group III titles in 1998 and 1999, and won the North II Group I title in 2009.[29] The Patriots wrestling team in the 2005–06 season was 21-7, ranked 16th in New Jersey, and won district 2. In the 2005–06 wrestling season, DJ Russo was the state runner-up and national champion for the 215 weight class; he ended his season with only one loss. The Patriots wrestling team repeated with a district championship in the 2006–07 season, and finished the year with a 16-11 record. The Patriots wrestling team in the 2008–09 season finished 18-5, ranked 15th in the state, and won the North II Group I state sectional title, the program's first since 1999, after defeating Elmwood Park Memorial High School 40-23.[30] The team had won sectional titles in 1985 in North I Group II and in both 1998 and 1999 in North I Group III.[31]

Special education

The school staff includes 17 special education teachers. The school offers support to the visually, hearing and physically impaired, through special classes and extra-curricular help.[32] The school also provides assistance with speech therapy and development.

Notable alumni

• Rob Freeman (born 1981), former Hidden in Plain View guitarist, backup vocalist and songwriter.
• Alicia Luciano (born 1983), Miss New Jersey 2002.[33]
• Manny Oudin (born 1968), former professional soccer player, head soccer coach of the Lehigh University women's soccer team.[34]
• Adam Riggs (born 1972), former Los Angeles Angels player known for his misspelled "Angees" jersey in a 2003 game.[35]

Administration

Core members of the district's and school's administration are:[36][37][38]

• Paul DiRupo, Superintendent
• Robert G. Klinck, Business Administrator / Board Secretary
• Thomas Claeys, Principal
• Jonathan DeSimone, Assistant Principal for Pupil Personnel Services
• Douglas Reynolds, Assistant Principal for Student Affairs

Board of education

The district's board of education, with nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election.[39] Seats on the high school district's nine-member board of education are allocated based on the populations of the constituent municipalities, with five seats assigned to Byram Township and two seats each to Netcong and Stanhope.[40][41]

References

1. School data for Lenape Valley Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
2. Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
3. Lenape Valley Regional High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 14, 2015.
4. Lenape Valley Regional Board of Education District Policy 0110 - Identification, Lenape Valley Regional High School. Accessed May 11, 2020. "Purpose: The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades nine through twelve in the Lenape Valley Regional High School District. Composition: The Lenape Valley Regional High School District is comprised of pupils from Netcong, Stanhope and Byram and the high school is located in Stanhope in the County of Sussex."
5. Lenape Valley Regional High School 2013 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 7, 2016. "Lenape Valley Regional High School is a comprehensive academic high school serving approximately 825 students in grade 9-12 from Byram Township and Stanhope Borough in Sussex County and from Netcong Borough in Morris County."
6. About Our School, Lenape Valley Regional High School. Accessed May 29, 2016. "Lenape Valley Regional High School is a four-year regional public high school and school district in New Jersey serving approximately 850 students from two municipalities in Sussex County and one in Morris County. The communities served by the high school are Byram Township and Stanhope Borough in Sussex and Netcong Borough in Morris County. The school is located in Stanhope, New Jersey."
7. NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 21, 2014.
8. Stewart, Amy. "Lenape looks towards the stars and aims for beyond" Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, The Township Journal, April 4, 2008. Accessed January 25, 2011.
9. Danzis, David. "Lenape Valley H.S. closing planetarium for lab space", New Jersey Herald, February 18, 2016. Accessed May 29, 2016. "The Lenape Valley Regional High School Board of Education is going forward with plans to repurpose the school's planetarium."
10. Gansberg, Martin. "Netcong Links Its Problems to I‐80", The New York Times, September 29, 1974. Accessed December 14, 2016. "And taxes have taken a big jump because of the need for joining with adjacent Stanhope in operating a regional high school, Lenape Valley, which opened last week.... The reason for the increase is because Netcong had to join with Stanhope, which is in Sussex County, to construct the regional high school."
11. Staff. "New Jersey Sports Lenape Start Fast", The New York Times, October 26, 1974. Accessed December 14, 2016. "Snyder is the 36‐year‐old head football coach at new Lenape Valley Regional High School, which opened its doors last month to students who formerly attended Sparta High and defunct Netcong High."
12. Carlson, Joe. "Christmas star is subject of planetarium show", New Jersey Herald, November 15, 2013. Accessed December 14, 2016. "The 53-seat planetarium, the only one in Sussex County, has been teaching students about the universe since Netcong, Byram and Stanhope combined to form Lenape Valley Regional High School in 1974."
13. "2009 Calendar, Netcong Borough. Accessed December 15, 2016.
14. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
15. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 3, 2012.
16. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
17. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010–11, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 5, 2012.
18. Lenape Valley Regional High School 2013-14 School Performance Report, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 14, 2015.
19. Athletics Archived 2007-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, Lenape Valley Regional High School. Accessed August 7, 2014.
20. Lenape Valley Clubs and Activities Archived 2007-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, Lenape Valley Regional High School. Accessed August 7, 2014.
21. Home Page, Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference. Accessed December 11, 2019. "The Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference prides itself on being one of New Jersey's premier high school conferences and is comprisesd of 39 high schools located in Northwest New Jersey."
22. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2019-2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed April 29, 2020.
23. General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016.
24. Home page, Sussex County Interscholastic League, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 9, 2009. Accessed December 16, 2014.
25. NJSIAA 2018 - 2020 Co-Operative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 11, 2020.
26. Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 19, 2015.
27. Passaic County Freeholders Honor Lakeland Regional High School Champs, press release dated April 26, 2005.
28. History of the NJSIAA Field Hockey Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 14, 2015.
29. History of the NJSIAA Team Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 14, 2015.
30. Staff. "Valiant effort by Elmwood Park", The Record (Bergen County), February 14, 2009. Accessed September 3, 2012. "Normally, the bus ride home after a loss tends to be somber, but Elmwood Parks wrestlers were upbeat despite falling to Lenape Valley, 40-23, in the North 2, Group 1 final Friday night."
31. NJSIAA State Sectional Champions Archived 2012-08-28 at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Wrestling. Accessed September 3, 2012.
32. Special Services Archived 2007-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, Lenape Valley Regional High School. Accessed August 7, 2014.
33. Miss New Jersey 2002 Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, Miss America. Accessed January 25, 2016.
34. Long, Ernie. "ESU Product Manny Oudin Is A Seasoned Player And Coach Who Has Finally Landed A Home Team.", The Morning Call, April 30, 1999. Accessed December 5, 2017. "After graduating from Lenape Valley High School in New Jersey, Oudin went on to have a stellar career at East Stroudsburg University."
35. Havsy, Jane. "Soaring with the Angels" Archived 2013-01-02 at Archive.today, Daily Record (Morristown), August 29, 2003. Accessed November 4, 2007. "'I said, cool,' recalled Riggs, a graduate of Lenape Valley High School and County College of Morris."
36. Faculty Directory, Lenape Valley Regional High School District. Accessed March 11, 2018.
37. 2017-2018 Student Handbook, Lenape Valley Regional High School District. Accessed March 11, 2018.
38. New Jersey School Directory for Sussex County, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 25, 2016.
39. New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election, New Jersey Department of Education, updated February 16, 2018. Accessed January 26, 2020.
40. Danzis, David. "Bender not running for reelection to Lenape Valley school board", New Jersey Herald, July 22, 2016. Accessed May 11, 2020. "A member of the Lenape Valley Regional High School Board of Education announced he is not running for re-election in November.... The nine-member board currently has two representatives from Stanhope, five from Byram and two from Netcong."
41. Board of Education Roster, Lenape Valley Regional High School. Accessed May 11, 2020.

External links

• Lenape Valley Regional High School
• Lenape Valley Regional High School's 2015–16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• Data for the Lenape Valley Regional High School, National Center for Education Statistics