Carteret High School Explained

Carteret High School
Established:1929
Grades:9-12
District:Carteret School District
Type:Public high school
Principal:David Salvatore
Enrollment:1,089 (as of 2022–23)
Faculty:83.2 FTEs
Ratio:13.1:1
Us Nces School Id:340282003268
Teamname:Ramblers
Conference:Greater Middlesex Conference (general)
Big Central Football Conference (football)
Colors: Royal blue and
white
Rival:Perth Amboy High School
Address:199 Washington Avenue
City:Carteret
County:Middlesex County
State:New Jersey
Zipcode:07008
Country:United States
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Accreditation:Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
Yearbook:Loudspeaker[1]

Carteret High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Carteret in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, as the lone secondary school of the Carteret School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1929 and is accredited through January 2027.[2]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,089 students and 83.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.1:1. There were 684 students (62.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 91 (8.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[3]

In 2019, 18% of students achieved proficiency in mathematics and 44% in reading. The graduation rate was 82%.[4]

Advanced Placement (AP) courses are offered in AP Biology. The Project Acceleration Program allows students to receive college credit from Seton Hall University and over 200 other colleges and universities. Schedule permitting, students may also earn college credits by attending classes at Middlesex County College.[5]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 261st-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.[6] The school had been ranked 296th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 302nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[7] The magazine ranked the school 272nd in 2008 out of 316 schools.[8] The school was ranked 312th in the magazine's September 2010 issue, which surveyed 332 schools across the state.[9] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 270th out of 367 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (an increase of 17 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[10]

Athletics

The Carteret High School Ramblers[11] compete in the Greater Middlesex Conference, which comprises public and private high schools located in the Middlesex County area and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[12] With 770 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range.[13] The football team competes in Division 3 of the Big Central Football Conference, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location.[14] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III South for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 680 to 889 students.[15]

School colors are royal blue and white. Sports offered include softball, bowling (men and women), track and field spring (men and women), soccer (men and women), basketball (men and women), football, tennis (women), wrestling (men) and baseball (men).[11]

The boys' basketball team won the Group III state championship in 1932 vs. Weehawken High School by a final score of 28-27[16] and the Group II title in 1934 with a 42–38 victory over Ramsey High School in the tournament final.[17] [18]

The boys track team won the indoor track Group III state championship in 1973 and the Group II title in 1987.[19]

The boys track team won the Group III spring / outdoor track state championship in 1973.[20]

The football team won the NJSIAA state sectional championships in Central Jersey Group III in 1976 and in Central Jersey Group II in 1992, 1996, 2007 and 2012.[21] The 1976 team won the Central Jersey Group III sectional title in front of a hometown crowd of 4,500 with a 29–22 win against Long Branch High School in the championship game.[22] [23] In 1992, the team became the first in program history to finish the season with no ties or losses, ending the season 11-0 after winning the Central Jersey Group II title with a 14–0 win against Princeton High School, one of the team's five shutouts that season; the 1991 team earned consideration from the Courier News as one of "the best in GMC history".[24] The 2007 football team won the Central Jersey, Group II state sectional title by a score a 20–14 over Rumson-Fair Haven High School in the tournament championship game played at Rutgers Stadium; The win was Carteret's fourth sectional title, and its first since 1996.[25] The 2012 football team went undefeated at 12-0 and were crowned Central Jersey Group II champions as well, defeating Weequahic High School by the score of 13–12 in the championship game played at Metlife Stadium.[26] [27] Dating back to 1927, Carteret has had a Thanksgiving Day football rivalry with Perth Amboy High School that was listed at 8th on NJ.com's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". Perth Amboy lead the rivalry with a 46-42-2 overall record as of 2017.[28]

The boys track team won the indoor relay championship in Group II in 1987.[29]

The 1990 baseball team finished the season with a record of 21-2 after coming back to defeat Hanover Park High School and win the Group II state championship by a score of 13–7 in nine innings in the tournament final.[30] [31]

The boys bowling team won the overall state championship in 2005 with a pinfall of 2,988, which was 29 pins more than Bordentown Regional High School in second place.[32] [33]

The girls bowling team won the Group II state championship in 2008.[34]

Administration

The principal is David Salvatore. His administration team includes two vice principals.[35] [36]

Nicholas Sysock, then vice principal, was suspended without pay in October 2012 after being charged with possession of child pornography.[37] After pleading guilty to a single count of possession of child pornography, Syscock was sentenced in August 2013 to three years in prison and will have limits on his access to children after his release.[38]

Notable alumni

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.carteretschools.org/Page/2338 Yearbook Club
  2. https://www.msa-cess.org/school-profile/?oId=0065e00000B8S6V&typ=school-profile Carteret High School
  3. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3402820&ID=340282003268 School data for Carteret High School
  4. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-jersey/districts/carteret-public-schools/carteret-high-school-12500 Carteret High School
  5. http://www.carteretschools.org/district.cfm District Information
  6. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  7. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed August 29, 2012.
  8. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2011.
  9. http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/highschoolrankings/top-high-schools-2010.html "Top New Jersey High Schools 2010: By Rank"
  10. http://www.schooldigger.com/schoolrank.aspx?Level=3&findschool=0282003268 New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009-2010
  11. https://www.njsiaa.org/schools/carteret-high-school Carteret High School
  12. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-10/2020-2021-lc-officers-schools.pdf League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021
  13. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/general-classifications-2018-2020.pdf NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020
  14. Kinney, Mike. "Big Central revises 2020 football schedule for its shortened inaugural season", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 12, 2020. Accessed April 18, 2021. "The newly formed Big Central Football Conference has released a revised 2020 schedule for its inaugural season.... the BCFC is comprised of schools from Middlesex, Union, Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties."
  15. 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
  16. Staff. "Trenton's Quintet Wins Jersey Title; Beats South Side of Newark, 36 to 30, to Take Class A High School Honors. Carteret Class B Victor; Downs Woodrow Wilson of Weehawken, 28 to 27 -- Class A Prep Crown to St. Benedict's.", The New York Times, March 20, 1932. Accessed October 28, 2015.
  17. Staff. "Trenton High Five Keeps State Title; Halts Union Hill, 29-19, to Score Third Year in Row in New Jersey Tourney.", The New York Times, March 18, 1934. Accessed October 28, 2015. "Carteret conquered Ramsey, 42-28, for the Group 2 high school title."
  18. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/2020-basketball-history_0.pdf NJSIAA Boys Basketball Championship History
  19. 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
  20. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-08/21-history.pdf NJSIAA Spring Track Summary of Group Titles Boys
  21. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/21-football.pdf NJSIAA Football History
  22. https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/05/archives/schoolboy-halfback-breaks-new-jersey-scoring-record.html "Schoolboy Halfback Breaks New Jersey Scoring Record"
  23. Amsel, Michael. "Branchers Run Out of Time. Carteret Wins Title, 29-22", Asbury Park Press, December 5, 1976. Accessed January 9, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Frank Glazier will tell you that his Long Branch High School football team just ran out of time in it quest for the Central Jersey Group III championship. Carteret Coach Jim Gilrain will tell you that the only thing Long Branch ran out of yesterday was ways to contain his methodical Rambler offense. And the record books will tell you simply that on Dec. 4 at Walter Oberholt Field, Carteret topped Long Branch, 29-22, for its first NJSIAA Playoff championship."
  24. Tufaro, Greg. "Which football team is the best in GMC history?", Courier News, August 15, 2018. Accessed November 20, 2020. "Carteret 1992 (Central Group II) According to the research of former colleague and venerable sports writer John Haley, the 1992 Ramblers were the first to finish undefeated and untied at Carteret, whose program commenced 67 years earlier under Sally McCarthy, a female head coach.... The defense allowed a total of 50 points and registered five shutouts including a 14-0 blanking of Princeton in the sectional final."
  25. McKenzie, Doug. "Late drive by Bulldogs falls short in title game; Carteret hangs on to win CJ Group II, 20-14", Central Jersey Archives, December 6, 2007. Accessed November 12, 2020. "However, all the confidence they had for their senior quarterback wasn’t quite enough to bring RFH its first state championship, as the Bulldogs dropped a heartbreaking 20-14 ballgame to Carteret to finish the year 9-3."
  26. Moretti, Mike. "Lewin's TD lifts Carteret past Rumson", The Star-Ledger, December 3, 2007. Accessed December 3, 2007. "But with senior tailback Byron Lewin picking up 143 yards on 22 carries and scoring the winning touchdown with 2:18 to go, Carteret defeated Rumson, 20-14, in the NJSIAA/Gatorade Central Jersey, Group 2 championship game before 4,000 at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway. It was Carteret's first state title since 1996 and fourth in six final appearances."
  27. http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=246272&tclass=Central%2C%20Group%20II 2007 Football - Central, Group II
  28. Stypulkoski, Matt. "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 27, 2017, updated May 15, 2019. Accessed December 1, 2020. "8-Carteret vs. Perth Amboy... That's how bitter the longest-running Thanksgiving Day rivalry in Middlesex County is, with these two schools separated by a little more than seven miles having played since 1927. All-time series: Perth Amboy leads 46-42-2"
  29. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-12/20-relay-history_0.pdf History of the NJSIAA Indoor Relay Championships
  30. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/20-baseball-history.pdf NJSIAA Baseball Championship History
  31. Seidman, Howard R. "Hanover Park loses in ninth; Twelve walks lead to defeat as Carteret wins Group II title", Daily Record, June 3, 1990. Accessed January 27, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "After taking a 6-2 lead into the sixth inning, Hanover Park High School went nine innings with Carteret before falling 13-7 in the Group II state baseball championship at Princeton University. The Hornets were done in by giving up 12 walks including six in the sixth which allowed the Ramblers to take the lead, 7-6.... Carteret, 21-2, was limited to just two hits going into the ninth inning and ended up with six."
  32. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022-07/22%20Bowling.pdf History of NJSIAA Boys Bowling Championships
  33. Tufaro, Greg. "Carteret wins state title; Ramblers earn boys championship, Woodbridge girls finish second", Home News Tribune, February 24, 2005. Accessed April 25, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Although his team hadn't won a tournament all season and didn't even finish first in its division, Carteret High School boys bowling coach Charlie Simon always knew his squad had the potential to be the best in the state. The Ramblers, who saved their best for last, proved Simon right, winning the school's first ever NJSIAA Championship with a three-game pinfall of 2,988 at Carolier Lanes yesterday.... They moved from fifth to third place in the second game and had to overcome Bordentown and Linden to win the team title. The Ramblers edged runner-up Bordentown by 29 pins."
  34. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/20-bowling_0_0.pdf History of NJSIAA Girls Bowling Championships
  35. https://4.files.edl.io/bafb/01/29/20/210610-2f0be84a-8afe-4f17-bf6d-3b3eb0b0e1c0.pdf Student Handbook 2019-2020
  36. https://www.carteretschools.org/domain/2098 School Administration
  37. Makin, Cheryl. "Carteret High School Vice Principal Nicholas Sysock of Rahway was arrested on child pornography charges Tuesday", Courier News, October 24, 2012. Accessed November 8, 2012. "Shock and dismay continues to rock the community in the wake of Carteret High School Vice Principal Nicholas G. Sysock's arrest on child pornography charges.... Ahearn said that as a result of the arrest and formal charges, Sysock has been suspended without pay or benefits immediately."
  38. Epstein, Sue. "Former Carteret High School vice principal sentenced to prison for possessing of child porn", NJ ADvance Media for NJ.com, August 15, 2013. Accessed October 4, 2017. "A former vice principal at Carteret High School was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for possessing child pornography. Nicholas Sysock, 54, of Rahway, pleaded guilty earlier in the year to one count of possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said."
  39. Cahillane, Kevin. "Not Fade Away: The Smithereens' Monument to Persistence", The New York Times, October 10, 2004. Accessed November 3, 2007. "The band formed in 1980 when three Carteret High School graduates (class of 1975) and childhood friends (Mr. Babjak, Dennis Diken on drums and Mike Mesaros on bass) met Pat DiNizio, a Scotch Plains singer-songwriter-garbage man."
  40. Rutenberg, Jim. "At Fox News, the Colonel Who Wasn't", The New York Times, April 29, 2002. Accessed December 30, 2011. "Born in 1956, he graduated from Carteret High School in Carteret, N.J., military records show."
  41. http://www.ci.carteret.nj.us/controls/NewsFeed.aspx?FeedID=129 The Smithereens to perform 30th anniversary concert in Carteret
  42. Prunty, Brendan. "Former Rutgers basketball star Keith Hughes passes away at age 45", The Star-Ledger, February 10, 2014. Accessed October 4, 2017. "In 2006, he took over as the varsity coach at his alma mater, guiding Carteret High School for one season."
  43. https://stonybrookathletics.com/sports/football/roster/sam-kamara/6644 Sam Kamara
  44. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McMaAr20.htm Art McMahon
  45. Staff. "Ducky Medwick, Slugger For Gas House Gang, Dies", The New York Times, March 22, 1975. Accessed October 19, 2014. "Medwick was born in Carteret, N. J,. on Nov. 24, 1911, and went on to star at Carteret High School in track, football, basketball, and baseball."
  46. [Frank Pallone|Pallone, Frank]
  47. Vrentas, Jenny. "Steelers draft Carteret product Jason Worilds in second round of NFL Draft", The Star-Ledger, April 23, 2010. Accessed July 15, 2010.

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