Dunellen High School

Dunellen High School (DHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Dunellen in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Dunellen Public Schools.

Dunellen High School
Location
Dunellen High School
Dunellen High School
Dunellen High School
411 First Street
Dunellen, NJ 08812

United States
Coordinates40.592433°N 74.468105°W / 40.592433; -74.468105
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtDunellen Public Schools
NCES School ID3404020[1]
PrincipalPaul Lynch
Vice principalCuyler Tobin
Faculty32.4 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment369 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio11.4:1[1]
Color(s)     Scarlet and
     navy blue[2]
Athletics conferenceGreater Middlesex Conference
Team nameDestroyers[2]
WebsiteSchool website

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 369 students and 32.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1. There were 150 students (40.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 17 (4.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 132nd-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.[3] The school had been ranked 112th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 110th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[4] The magazine ranked the school 166th in its 2008 rankings out of 316 schools statewide. The school was ranked 147th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[5] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 147th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 92 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.7%) and language arts literacy (92.2%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[6]

The school was the 36th-ranked high school in New Jersey in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report Rankings of Best High Schools.[7]

Extracurricular activities

Dunellen has a wide variety of other activities to choose from, including the Biology Club, Chess Club, Chess Team, Choir, Concert band, Marching band, National Art Honor Society, National Honor Society, Drama Club, Exodus, French Club, Spanish Club, Jazz band, Madrigals, Math League, Thespian Society and The Spectrum.[8]

Athletics

The Dunellen High School Destroyers[2] compete in the Greater Middlesex Conference, made up of public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County area, operating under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[9] With 244 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.[10]

The school participates in a cooperative wrestling program with Middlesex High School as the host school / lead agency, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2018-19 school year.[11]

The boys basketball team won the Group I state championships in 1943 (vs. Egg Harbor Township High School in the tournament final), 1946 (vs. Keyport High School) and 1959 (vs. Glen Ridge High School).[12]

Dunellen is placed in the Blue Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference for football. The football team won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 1993.[13] The Destroyers have made eight appearances to the Central Jersey Group I state final.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:[14]

  • Paul Lynch, Principal
  • Cuyler Tobin, Vice Principal

References
  1. School data for Dunellen High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Dunellen High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 9, 2015.
  3. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  4. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 7, 2012.
  5. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  6. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 5, 2012.
  7. "Dunellen High School", U.S. News & World Report. Accessed July 25, 2014
  8. 2015-16 Student Handbook, Dunellen High School. Accessed November 9, 2015.
  9. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2019-2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed April 29, 2020.
  10. General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  11. 2017 - 2019 Co-Operative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed February 12, 2018.
  12. Past State Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 14, 2016.
  13. Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 9, 2015.
  14. Staff directory, Dunellen High School. Accessed June 1, 2020.
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