Asbury Park High School Explained

Asbury Park High School
Established:1926
Grades:7-12
District:Asbury Park Public Schools
Type:Public high school
Motto:Building a Brighter Future
Principal:Perry Medina
Enrollment:607 (as of 2022–23)
Faculty:50.0 FTEs
Ratio:12.1:1
Us Nces School Id:340093003732
Teamname:Bishops
Conference:Shore Conference
Colors: Columbia Blue and
Black
Rivals:Neptune HS[1] [2]
Long Branch HS[3]
Address:1003 Sunset Avenue
City:Asbury Park
County:Monmouth County
State:New Jersey
Zipcode:07712
Country:United States
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Asbury Park High School is a comprehensive, community public high school serving students in seventh through twelfth grades. It is in a landmark building in Asbury Park, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, that was constructed during the New Deal as a model high school campus. It is part of the Asbury Park Public Schools, an Abbott District[4] serving children in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The current school building opened to students in September 1926.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 607 students and 50.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 278 students (45.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and none eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[5]

As part of a reconfiguration of district schools announced in July 2019, students in grades 7 and 8 began attending classes in the high school in September 2020.[6] [7]

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.[8]

History

Constructed at a cost of $1 million (equivalent to $ million in), the school building opened in September 1926 for 800 students, though the auditorium had not yet been completed when the building opened for the year.[9]

Students from Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey had been sent to Asbury Park and by 1962 accounted for a majority of students in am increasingly overcrowded high school. Ocean Township voters approved a referendum to cover the cost of construction of Ocean Township High School, which opened in September 1965 for students through 11th grade, with 12th graders completing their education in Asbury Park.[10]

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.[11] 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.[12] The nearly 40 public school students from Allenhurst would start transitioning to the new sending districts as the relationship with Asbury Park is severed.[13]

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.[14] 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.[15] The magazine ranked the school 281st in 2008 out of 316 schools.[16] The school was ranked 296th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[17] 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).[18]

Athletics

The Asbury Park High School Bishops[19] compete in Division B Central of the Shore Conference, an athletic conference comprising public and private high schools in Monmouth and Ocean counties along the Jersey Shore.[20] [21] The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[22] With 324 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range.[23] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I South for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 200 to 463 students.[24]

The boys basketball 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.[25] A crowd of 3,500 watched the 1941 team win the Group IV state title with a 35-32 win against West New York in the championship game played at the Elizabeth Armory.[26] The 2011 team defeated Jonathan Dayton by a score of 64-50 in the Group I tournament final.[27]

The boys cross country team won the Group IV state title in 1950 (as co-champion) and won the Group II title in 1990 and 1993.[28]

The boys' tennis team was the state overall co-champion in 1950 with Millville Senior High School, the first year that the state title was determined by playoffs.[29] [30]

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.[31] The 1977 team finished the season 31-1 after winning the Group III state title with a 70-47 victory against Paramus Catholic in the championship game.[32]

The boys track team won the indoor / winter track championship in Group III in 1977 and 1980, won the Group II title in 1978, 1983-1985 and 1989–1996, and won the Group I title in 1988; the 15 state championship won by the boys program is tied for second-most in the state.[33] The girls track team won the Group I title in 1988 and the Group II title in 1990, 1993, 1994; The four championships won by the girls program is tied for tenth-most statewide.[34]

The boys track team won the indoor relay championship in Group III in 1977, in Group II in 1978 and 1981–1985, and won the Group I title in 1988–1995; the 15 championships won by the boys program are the third-most in the state and the streak of eight titles from 1988 to 1995 is one of two of that length statewide and the five consecutive titles from 1981 to 1985 is the state's fourth-longest. The girls team won the Group I/II title in 1981, won the Group II title in 1992, 1993.[35]

The boys track team won the spring / outdoor track state championship in Group III in 1977, in Group II in 1978, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1993 and 1995, and won in Group I in 1988.[36]

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 championship in 2007–2009, 2011 and 2016.[37] 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.[38] [39] The team won the Central Jersey Group I title in 2011 with a 42–18 win against Florence Township Memorial High School in the playoff finals.[40] The program won its seventh playoff-era 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.[41]

The girls spring track team was the Group II state champion in 1993.[42]

Administration

The school's principal is Bridget O'Neill. Her administration team includes two vice principals.[43]

Notable alumni

External links

Notes and References

  1. 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."
  2. 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."
  3. 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."
  4. http://www.nj.gov/highereducation/grants/CBRFP/ABBOTTs.pdf Abbott School Districts
  5. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3400930&ID=340093003732 School data for Asbury Park High School
  6. 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."
  7. https://www.asburypark.k12.nj.us/UserFiles/Servers/Server_199200/File/Our%20District/General%20Info/asbury%20park%20newsletter%20lo%20res%20proof%20(4).pdf "Message from the Superintendent’s Office"
  8. 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."
  9. 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."
  10. http://www.oceantwp.org/controls/NewsFeed.aspx?FeedID=882 New Exhibit - Ocean Township High School at 50
  11. 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."
  12. https://www.nj.gov/education/legal/commissioner/2017/jul/204-17.pdf 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.
  13. 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."
  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 November 20, 2012.
  16. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 1, 2011.
  17. http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/highschoolrankings/top-new-jersey-high-schools-by-rank.html "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank"
  18. http://www.schooldigger.com/go/NJ/schools/0093003732/school.aspx School Overview; Click on "Rankings" for 2010-11 HSPA results
  19. https://www.njsiaa.org/schools/asbury-park-high-school Asbury Park High School
  20. http://media.digitalsports.com/79529/files/2017/03/Shore-Conference-Realignment-2018-2020.pdf Shore Conference Realignment for 2018-2019 and 2019-2020
  21. http://www.shoreconferencenj.org/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5genie=249 Member Schools
  22. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-10/2020-2021-lc-officers-schools.pdf League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021
  23. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/general-classifications-2018-2020.pdf NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020
  24. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022-08/Football%20%2722%20%26%20%2723.pdf NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2022–2024
  25. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/2020-basketball-history_0.pdf History of NJSIAA Boys Basketball Championship History
  26. Kamm, Herb. "Asbury Park Defeats West New York, 35-32, To Win State Title; Bishops Top Favorites in Bitterly Contested Court Tilt at Elizabeth", Asbury Park Press, March 23, 1941. Accessed March 1, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Fighting back challenge after challenge Asbury Park high school's basketball team won the state championship for the second time in history last night with a brilliant 35 to 32 victory over favored Memoria high of West New York in a bitterly-contested battle before 3,500 spectators in the Elizabeth armory.... The victory carried Asbury Park back to the heights it first scaled in 1936 and gave Coach James M. (Chippy) Coleman the happiest moment of his life."
  27. Christie, Sherlon. "Boys: Asbury Park ends 23-year state championship drought", Asbury Park Press, March 13, 2011. Accessed March 3, 2021. "With two scouting tapes on the Dayton boys basketball team, Asbury Park coach Dave Johnson found all the information he needed to map out a strategy for the Blue Bishops in the NJSIAA Group 1 state championship game. The plan worked to perfection as the Blue Bishops gained control in the second quarter and never looked back in beating Dayton, 64-50, to end Asbury Park’s 23-year boys basketball state championship drought.... Asbury Park hasn’t won a state title since 1987 when the school was in Group II and defeated Orange and Dayton hasn’t won a state title since 1950, then as Springfield Regional, when it defeated Union Hill."
  28. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/21-xc-group-team-champions_0.pdf NJSIAA Boys Cross Country State Group Champions
  29. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/20-team-tennis-history.pdf History of Boys' Team Tennis Championship Tournament
  30. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68202232/asbury-park-ties-millville-for-overall/ "Asbury Park Shares State Tennis Diadem; Ties Millville for Championship as Parreott and Mudd Annex Douhles Crown - Torres Bows in Singles Final to Eisenberg"
  31. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/2020-girls-basketball-history.pdf NJSIAA Girls Basketball Championship History
  32. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/482159540/ "Nutley Wins First Title; Asbury Gals Romp, 70-47"
  33. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2024-01/Boys%20Indoor%20Track%20%26%20Field_0.pdf Boys Winter Track and Field Championship History: 1922-2023
  34. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2024-01/Girls%20Indoor%20Track%20%26%20Field.pdf Girls Winter Track and Field Championship History: 1981-2023
  35. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-12/20-relay-history_0.pdf History of the NJSIAA Indoor Relay Championships
  36. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-08/21-history.pdf NJSIAA Spring Track Summary of Group Titles Boys
  37. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/21-football.pdf NJSIAA Football History
  38. Moretti, Mike. "Bell, Johnson lead Asbury Park", The Star-Ledger, December 1, 2007. Accessed December 3, 2007. "It was one of three TD passes from Johnson to Bell as Asbury Park recorded a 32-18 victory over Keansburg last night in the NJSIAA/Gatorade Central Jersey, Group 1 championship at Rutgers Stadium. The victory marked the first state title for Asbury Park (11-1) since it went undefeated in 1984."
  39. http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=246272&tclass=Central%2C%20Group%20I 2007 Football - Central, Group I
  40. Brett, Joshua. "Florence football squanders chances in loss to Asbury Park", The Times, December 4, 2011, updated March 30, 2019. Accessed November 9, 2020. "Asbury Park’s potent, speedy attack was bound to get on track eventually, and it did after halftime, scoring touchdowns on four of its next five possessions to lift the top-seeded Bishops to a 42-18 victory over the Flashes and the Group I Central crown yesterday at The College of New Jersey."
  41. Lambert, Jim. "Asbury Park rallies for a 26-17 victory over Keyport in the CJ Group 1 final", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 3, 2016. Accessed December 9, 2016. "Asbury Park got possession of a game-changing onside kick due to a penalty and scored three unanswered touchdowns in the fourth quarter to rally for a 26-17 victory over Keyport to win the NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group 1 Championship on Saturday at Kean University's Alumni Stadium.... The victory by Asbury Park was its seventh sectional title and first since 2011, and it avenged a 14-7 loss to Keyport in September."
  42. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-08/21-spring-track-group-history.pdf NJSIAA Girls Spring Track Summary of Group Titles
  43. https://aphs.asburypark.k12.nj.us/principal_s_corner Principal's Corner
  44. 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."
  45. http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BUDDFRA01 Frank Budd profile
  46. http://aphshalloffame.com/Inductees/JamesMColemanJr.html "James M. Coleman - Class of 1942"
  47. https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/robert-b-duffield-’40 "Robert B. Duffield ’40"
  48. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67993037/asbury-park-press/ "Lester J. 'Coach' Dugan"
  49. [Henry William Menard|Menard, Henry William]
  50. https://www.aphshalloffame.com/inductee/StephenLHoffman Stephen L. Hoffman
  51. https://www.newspapers.com/article/asbury-park-press-robert-c-holub-of-asb/130953473/ "City High School Honors 47 As 'Varsity Scholars'"
  52. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000840 James John Howard
  53. McClain, Dylan Loeb. "Carol Jarecki, Respected Chess Referee, Dies at 86; She was known for her practical, no-nonsense approach at scores of major tournaments. She was also a pilot and a nurse and, with her husband, conquered the game of roulette.", The New York Times, June 14, 2021. Accessed June 16, 2021. "Ms. Jarecki went to Asbury Park High School, studied anesthesia at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and began working as a nurse in New Jersey."
  54. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/144373258/ "Cover Story"
  55. http://www.bridgeguys.com/pdf/bios/kansil_joli_quentin.pdf Prince Joli Quentin Kensil
  56. https://books.google.com/books?id=UHInAQAAMAAJ&q=dave+rible+%22asbury+park+high+school%22 Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 2008
  57. Staff. "Rockafeller Seeks Release At Rutgers; Football Coach Asks Council on Athletics Not to Consider Him for Reappointment.", The New York Times, December 6, 1930. Accessed November 24, 2012. "He came to Rutgers from Asbury Park High School."
  58. Voger, Mark. "'Batman' TV cast on the creation of a camp classic", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 8, 2014. Accessed November 15, 2014. "Cesar Romero - The actor who created the role of the Joker lived in Bradley Beach as a child, and attended Bradley Beach Elementary School and Asbury Park High School."
  59. https://books.google.com/books?id=8fiHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Senator+Russo+attended+Asbury+Park+High+School%22 Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 204, Part 1
  60. Schindehette, Susan; Balfour, Victoria. "Romancing the Boss: Jersey Girl Patti Scialfa Displaced Actress Julianne Phillips and Brought Bruce Springsteen Back to His Roots", People (magazine), October 10, 1988. Accessed June 12, 2012. "'She was always with her guitar,' says Marie McLoughlin Cascone, who was a year ahead of Patti at Asbury Park High.... Patti's teachers at Asbury Park High School remember her as 'very quiet' and 'intelligent,' though she didn't push herself and got only average grades"
  61. https://books.google.com/books?id=gqFMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Thomas+S.+Smith%22+1917+bloomfield Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 2001
  62. Myers, William Starr. "E. Donald Sterner", in Prominent Families of New Jersey, Volume 1, p. 994. Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000. . Accessed August 13, 2018. "E. Donald Sterner, after passing through the public schools of Belmar and graduating from the Asbury Park High School, entered Rutgers University and was associated with his father in the lumber industry when the United States entered the First World War."
  63. https://www.newspapers.com/article/asbury-park-press-george-stetter-of-ocea/126972653/ "Stetter Defensive Standout in Game"
  64. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/TomaJo20.htm Johnny Tomaini
  65. http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=VILLAPHI01 Phil Villapiano
  66. Staff. "Mad Dog takes bite of the Jersey Shore", Asbury Park Press, August 10, 2003. Accessed June 12, 2012. "Villapiano surprised Russo when he informed him that he played his high school ball at Asbury Park and Ocean Township."
  67. 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."
  68. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94354116/graduate-entertains/ "Graduate Entertains"

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