Dover High School (New Jersey) Explained

Dover High School
Grades:9-12
District:Dover School District
Type:Public high school
Principal:Michael McAuley (acting)
Enrollment:1,159 (as of 2022–23)
Faculty:87.2 FTEs
Ratio:13.3:1
Us Nces School Id:340393004212
Conference:Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)
Teamname:Tigers
Colors: Black and
orange
Address:100 Grace Street
City:Dover
County:Morris County
State:New Jersey
Zipcode:07801
Country:United States
Pushpin Map:USA New Jersey Morris County#USA New Jersey#USA
Newspaper:Tiger Tales[1]

Dover High School is a four-year public high school located in Dover in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades and operating as the lone secondary school of the Dover School District.

The high school serves students from Victory Gardens, which has been consolidated into the Dover School District since 2010.[2] [3] [4] Students from Mine Hill Township attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[5]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,159 students and 87.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.3:1. There were 410 students (35.4% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 205 (17.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[6]

History

Dover High School had served students from Denville Township, Hanover Township, Hopatcong, Jefferson Township, Randolph and Rockaway Township, before those districts terminated their sending/receiving relationships and either created their own high schools or established relationships with other receiving districts.[7]

Students from Jefferson Township and Randolph left the school after Randolph High School opened in September 1961.[8]

Awards, recognition and rankings

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".[9] [10]

The school was the 238th-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.[11] The school had been ranked 223rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 220th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[12] The magazine ranked the school 215th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[13] The school was ranked 229th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[14] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 172nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 89 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.2%) and language arts literacy (88.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[15]

U.S. News released the 2023-2024 Rankings in which Dover High School was ranked #3,363 nationally. At the New Jersey state level, they were ranked #138 and #343 in the NYC Metro Area High Schools.[16]

Extracurricular activities

Dover High School offers many extracurricular activities after school. Below is a list of some of the activities available:

Athletics

The Dover High School Tigers[17] compete in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, which comprises public and private high schools in Morris, Sussex and Warren counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[18] [19] Prior to the 2010 realignment, the school had participated in the Hills division of the Iron Hills Conference, an athletic conference that included high schools located in Essex, Morris and Union counties. With 762 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.[20] The football team competes in the Ivy White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league.[21] [22] The football team is one of the 12 programs assigned to the two Ivy divisions starting in 2020, which are intended to allow weaker programs ineligible for playoff participation to compete primarily against each other.[23] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III North for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 680 to 884 students.[24]

The boys cross country team won the Group III state championship in 1946-1949.[25]

The football team won the NJSIAA North II Group II state sectional championship in 1984, 1992 and 1996.[26] Down early by a score of 14-0, the 1984 team came back with four touchdowns to defeat Warren Hills Regional High School by a score of 26-17 to win the North II Group II championship game and finish the season with a record of 8-3.[27]

The boys' wrestling team won the North II Group II state sectional championship in 1988.[28]

In 2002, the boys' soccer team won the North II, Group II state sectional championship, defeating Parsippany High School 1-0 in the tournament final.[29] In 2017 they also won the North II, Group II state sectional championship, defeating Harrison High School 3-0 in the tournament final.[30] In the process making school history by making it to the Group II state final for the first time, ultimately losing to Holmdel High School 4-1 at Kean University.[31]

Administration

The acting principal is Michael McAuley, whose core administration team includes the vice principal and the athletic director.[32]

Notable alumni

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://dhs.dover-nj.org/m/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=765453&id=0 Tiger Tales
  2. Martin, Liz. "Voters have their say on the budgets", Neighbor News, April 28, 2010. Accessed May 10, 2015. "The school board goes from 11 members to 10 after this election as the temporary Board seat assigned to the Victory Gardens representative Danielle Press expired permanently on April 20. Now that Victory Gardens has merged with the Dover school district, there will no longer be a dedicated Victory Gardens seat on the Board. Any resident from either Dover or Victory Gardens will be eligible to run for any available Board seat."
  3. http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/LIVING06/706170311/1316/LIVING "Victory Gardens"
  4. http://www.state.nj.us/education/news/2009/0701nonops.htm 13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated
  5. https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/1516/27/1110/040.html Dover High School 2016 Report Card Narrative
  6. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3403930&ID=340393004212 School data for Dover High School
  7. Schoonmaker, Stanley; and Laurie, George. Dover, p. 39. Arcadia Publishing, 1999. . Accessed September 13, 2017. "During its long history, Dover has been a receiving district for many other Morris County communities. The towns included: Randolph (until 1964), Rockaway Township, Jefferson Township, Lake Hopatcong, Denville, Hanover, Mine Hill, and Victory Gardens. Today, only the latter two send their students to Dover."
  8. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/255742602/ "Randolph High School: Timeline"
  9. Rundquist, Jeanette. "15 N.J. schools named as national 'Blue Ribbon' winners", The Star-Ledger, September 24, 2013. Accessed September 25, 2013. "Five Catholic schools, six county vocational-technical schools and a Yeshiva are among the list of honored schools in New Jersey. Also named as 2013 Blue Ribbon Schools were Dover, Harrison and Wildwood high schools."
  10. http://www2.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/2013/national.pdf#page=15 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private
  11. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  12. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed August 24, 2012.
  13. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 4, 2011.
  14. http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/highschoolrankings/top-new-jersey-high-schools-by-rank.html "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank"
  15. http://www.schooldigger.com/schoolrank.aspx?Level=3&findschool=0393004212 New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011
  16. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-jersey/districts/dover-public-school-district/dover-high-school-12520
  17. https://www.njsiaa.org/schools/dover-high-school Dover High School
  18. https://www.nwjerseyac.com/g5-bin/client.cgi?G5genie=235 Home Page
  19. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-10/2020-2021-lc-officers-schools.pdf League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021
  20. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/general-classifications-2018-2020.pdf NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020
  21. Cooper, Darren. "Here's what we know about the new Super Football Conference 2020 schedule", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference (SFC) is a 112-team group, the largest high school football-only conference in America, and is comprised of teams from five different counties."
  22. Cooper, Darren. "NJ football: Super Football Conference revised schedules for 2020 regular season", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference has 112 teams that will play across 20 divisions."
  23. Cooper, Darren. "Super Football Conference creating 'Ivy Division' for struggling programs", The Record, May 1, 2019. Accessed March 24, 2021. "Seeking to restore participation and enthusiasm to high school football programs that have struggled to compete consistently, the Super Football Conference announced plans to start a 12-team 'Ivy Division' in the 2020 season. Teams that compete in the 'Ivy Division' will play exclusively against each other and won't participate in the NJISAA football playoffs.... Twelve schools from Bergen, Hudson, Essex and Morris counties have applied to compete in the Ivy Division: Bergen Tech, Cliffside Park, Dickinson, Fair Lawn, Ferris, Memorial, Dover, Dwight-Morrow, Fort Lee, Glen Ridge, Marist and Tenafly."
  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/2021-12/21-xc-group-team-champions_0.pdf NJSIAA Boys Cross Country State Group Champions
  26. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/21-football.pdf NJSIAA Football History
  27. Parachini, Jim. "Tigers claw past Warren Hills, 26-17, in Group II final", Daily Record, December 2, 1984. Accessed March 9, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Things were looking bleak for the Dover High School football team. Warren Hills had taken its first two possessions and cashed them in for a 14-0 lead.... Dover, 8-3 and the top seed, scored three more touchdowns for a 26-17 win, capturing the North Jersey Section 2, Group II crown. For the Tigers it was their first state title since 1970, four years before the current playoff system was put into action."
  28. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/2020-wrestling-history_0.pdf NJSIAA Wrestling Team Championship History
  29. http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=25653&tclass= NJSIAA 2002 Group 2 Boys' Soccer
  30. Lashley, Josh. "Dover boys soccer sets new standard for success", The Record, December 8, 2017. Accessed September 10, 2020. "Dover finished with an overall record of 21-3-1, winning the NJSIAA North 2, Group 2 championship and the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Liberty Division titles along the way. They won the Liberty with a mark of 9-0-1. The Tigers toppled Harrison, 3-0, to earn the North 2, Group 2 crown. In a Group 2 semifinal, they defeated Newton, 1-0. Holmdel topped Dover in the Group 2 championship game."
  31. Dekayne, Brian. "PHOTOS: No. 6 Holmdel rolls past No. 18 Dover in the Group 2 final", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 19, 2017, updated August 23, 2019. Accessed September 20, 2020. "Holmdel, ranked No. 6 in the NJ.com Top 20, kept its red-hot offensive alive in a 4-1 win over No. 18 Dover in the Group 2 final at Kean University in Union on Sunday."
  32. https://dhs.dover-nj.org/apps/staff/ Staff
  33. Westhoven, William. "Seniors Play the Mating Game in Stage Comedy; Celebrated Morris County playwright's Southern Comforts closes out Women's Theater Company season", Parsippany Patch, May 1, 2012. Accessed March 22, 2017. "'I'm a New Jersey girl at heart and most of my plays take place in New Jersey,' said Clark, who graduated from Dover High School."
  34. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94294830/newark-eagles-to-tackle-house-of-david/ "Newark Eagles to Tackle House of David Tomorrow"
  35. O'Dea, Colleen. "Young playwrights stage plots at workshop", Daily Record, November 14, 1985. Accessed March 21, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "'"I thought we could just take a story and turn it into a play, but this is a lot harder,' said Ben Loory, a ninth-grader from Dover High School, who wrote a play last week entitled 'A Viking Story Kind Of,' which he plans to submit to the statewide competition."
  36. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MacKJa00.htm Jacque MacKinnon Stats
  37. https://doverhighschoolhalloffame.com/3/miscellaneous3.htm Hall of Fame
  38. https://doverhighschoolhalloffame.com/3/miscellaneous1.htm Hall of Fame 2019 Inductees
  39. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrbmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA220 "Tillyer, '02, A Leader in his Field"

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