Vineland High School is a four-year public high school located in Vineland, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Vineland Public Schools. The now reunified school operates from a south campus that had been Vineland Senior High School South (which opened in 1963) and a north campus that was formerly Vineland Senior High School North (established in 1976). The original high school in Vineland dates back to 1870, and the 1927 Vineland High School dates to 1927 structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 3, 1995, and is now known as Landis Intermediate School.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,616 students and 201.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.0:1. There were 1,363 students (52.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 274 (10.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
A proposed dress code, slated to take effect for the 2006-07 school year, gave way to controversy and debate among students and parents.
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Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 264th-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. The school had been ranked 297th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 275th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 222nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 194th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Curriculum
Due to its large student body Vineland High is able to offer a wide range of elective classes topics include arts and design, computers, media, automobile repair, woodworking, as well as a wide range of Advanced Placement courses. Courses such as English, mathematics, history, and science are tracked into college preparatory, advanced college preparatory, and honors. Students are tracked into honors mathematics and science from middle school.
Requirements for graduation
Courses required to be taken in order to graduate are four years of English, three years of mathematics, two years of United States history, one year of world history/geography; three years of science; one year of fine, practical and/or performing arts, 1/2 year of digital technology, 1/2 year of financial literacy, one year of a business, life science, or vocational course, two years of a World Language, and four years of physical education/health. All students must pass the New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) to graduate.
Athletics
The Vineland High School Fighting Clan compete in the Atlantic Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference consisting of both parochial and public high schools located in Atlantic County, Cape May County, Cumberland County and Gloucester County, and operates under the aegis of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 1,934 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,082 to 1,934 students in that grade range.
Vineland High School has participated since 1893 in an annual Thanksgiving football game with Millville Senior High School, in Millville. The rivalry is the one of the oldest public high school rivalry in the United States, meeting for the 135th time in 2006. Vineland leads the series, 61-55, with 19 games ending in ties.
They also have a longstanding boys swim team rivalry between Vineland and Mainland Regional High School.
Vineland High School's interscholastic athletic teams include:
- Girls Crew
- Girls Track
- Girls Tennis
- Girls Soccer
- Girls Softball
- Girls Swimming
- Girls Basketball
- Girls Field Hockey
- Girls Cross Country
- Boys Crew
- Boys Track
- Boys Tennis
- Boys Soccer
- Boys Baseball
- Boys Lacrosse
- Boys Swimming
- Boys Wrestling
- Boys Basketball
- Boys Cross Country
- Co-ed Football
- Co-ed Golf
- Co-ed Winter Track
- Co-ed Fall Cheerleading
- Co-ed Winter Cheerleading
The boys' cross country team won the Group IV state championship in 1964 and 1965.
The boys' wrestling team won the South Jersey Group IV state sectional title in 1988.
The boys' track team won the Group IV indoor relay championship in 2004 together with Christian Brothers Academy.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
- Thomas McCann, Principal (South)
- Melanie Beck, Assistant Principal (North)
- Dorothy Burke, Assistant Principal (South)
- Madeline Galan, Assistant Principal (South)
- Darren Palmer, Assistant Principal (North)
- Richard Panas, Assistant Principal (South)
Notable alumni
- Obie Bermúdez (born 1977, class of 1995), Latin Grammy winner for Best Male Pop Vocal Album in 2005.
- Jillian Loyden (born 1985), soccer goalkeeper.
- Vic Voltaggio (born 1941, class of 1959), Major League Baseball umpire from 1977 to 1996.
Notable staff
- Gerald Luongo, former principal, politician and convicted felon.
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