Gateway Regional High School (New Jersey) Explained

Gateway Regional High School District
Superintendent:Shannon Whalen
Businessadmin:Donna Contrevo
Address:775 Tanyard Road
City:Woodbury Heights
County:Gloucester County
State:New Jersey
Zipcode:08096
Country:United States
Coordinates:39.819°N -75.1398°W
Established:1964
Grades:7-12
Schools:1
Enrollment:849 (as of 2022–23)
Faculty:82.8 FTEs
Ratio:10.3:1
Free Label:District Factor Group
Free Text:CD
Gateway Regional High School
Grades:7-12
Type:Public high school
Principal:Jeffrey Pierro
Enrollment:849 (as of 2022–23)
Faculty:82.8 FTEs
Ratio:10.3:1
Us Nces School Id:340582002554
Colors: Royal blue
White
Teamname:Gators
Conference:Colonial Conference (general)
West Jersey Football League (football)
Pushpin Map:USA New Jersey Gloucester County#USA New Jersey#USA
Newspaper:The Chomp[1]

Gateway Regional High School is a regional school district and public high school serving students in seventh through twelfth grades from the boroughs of National Park, Wenonah, Westville and Woodbury Heights, four communities in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 849 students and 82.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.3:1. There were 160 students (18.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 33 (3.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[7]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[8]

History

The name "Gateway Regional High School District" was chosen by a study committee in April 1962, using the term "gateway" that had been applied to that portion of the county. The committee was established after the Woodbury Public Schools notified the four sending communities of National Park, Wenonah, Westville and Woodbury Heights—which all had existing K-8 school districts—that their students could no longer be accommodated at Woodbury High School for grades 9-12 after the 1963-64 school year.[9] The district's original plan called for creation of a regional junior high school for grades 7-9 while students already enrolled would continue to attend Woodbury High School for grades 10-12.[10] After a June 1962 referendum was rejected in three of the four municipalities, the district was formally established after a second proposal was passed each of the four communities in December 1962, leading to the establishment of the first board of education.[11] [12]

Voters overwhelmingly approved a May 1963 referendum for $1.6 million (equivalent to $ million in) to buy the land and construct of a facility on a plot covering that was designed to accommodate an enrollment of 800 to 1,000 students.[13]

The school opened for the 1964-65 school year.[6]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 195th-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 141st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 197th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[15] The magazine ranked the school 151st in 2008 out of 316 schools.[16] The school was ranked 176th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[17] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 181st out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 29 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (78.7%) and language arts literacy (93.9%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[18]

Athletics

The Gateway Regional High School Gators[19] compete in the Colonial Conference, which comprises public high schools in Camden and Gloucester counties, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[20] [21] With 405 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022–24 school years as Group I South for most athletic competition purposes.[22] The football team competes in the Royal Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconference[23] [24] and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I South for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 200 to 463 students.[25]

The school participates as the host school / lead agency for joint cooperative cross country running, co-ed swimming and wrestling teams with Woodbury Junior-Senior High School. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.[26] [27]

The field hockey team was the South II sectional champion in 1971 and won the South Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 2001.[28]

The 1978 softball team ran their record to 18-3 after winning the Group II state championship by a score of 6-2 in the final of the tournament against a Queen of Peace High School that came into the game undefeated.[29] [30]

The 1992 boys' soccer team finished the season with a record of 21-3 after winning the Group II state championship, defeating Harrison High School by a score of 2-0 in the tournament final.[31] [32]

The boys' baseball team won the 2009 South Jersey Group I NJSIAA state sectional Title, advancing to the Group I tournament where they lost to David Brearley High School 6 - 2 in the semi-final round.[33]

Administration

Core members of the district and school administration are:[34] [35]

Board of education

The district's board of education, composed of nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district.[36] [37] Seats on the district's board of education are allocated based on the population of the constituent municipalities, with three seats assigned to Westville (the largest community in the district) and two each to National Park, Wenonah and Woodbury Heights.[38]

Notable alumni

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://sites.google.com/gatewayhs.com/clubs/newspaper The Chomp
  2. https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/report.aspx?type=school&lang=english&county=15&district=1715&school=050&SY=1617&schoolyear=2016-2017 Gateway Regional High School District 2016-17 School Report Card Narrative
  3. https://www.gloucestercountynj.gov/DocumentCenter/View/12267/GCPSD-revisions-for-2023-2024 2023-24 Gloucester County Office of Education Public School Directory
  4. https://rc.doe.state.nj.us/selectreport/2022-2023/15/1715 School Performance Reports for the Gateway Regional High School District
  5. https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/school/districtid/1715 New Jersey School Directory for the Gateway Regional High School District
  6. Shryock, Bob. "Plans are in the works for Gateway's 50th anniversary", Gloucester County Times, March 22, 2012, updated January 18, 2019. Accessed March 25, 2022. "The 50-year milestone is based on Gateway opening in the fall of 1964 when four sending districts (Woodbury Heights, Westville, National Park and Wenonah) split from Woodbury and sent seventh, eighth and ninth graders to the new school on Egg Harbor Road in Woodbury Heights."
  7. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3405820&ID=340582002554 School data for Gateway Regional High School
  8. http://www.state.nj.us/education/finance/rda/dfg.shtml NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts
  9. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98363066/formation-of-gateway-regional-high/ "June Balloting Sought On New Regional High In Gloucester County"
  10. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98363721/details-of-gateway-regional-and/ "Poll Slated In Creation Of District"
  11. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98364201/second-gateway-regional-referendum/ "Ask Referendum Again on School"
  12. Waters, Ann S. "Henderson Elected As First President Of Gateway Board", Courier-Post, December 15, 1962. Accessed March 25, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Their proposal that the Gateway district he formed and a junior high school built was first defeated 830-721 at a June 28 referendum.... At the Dec. 5 election the vote results approving the question were: Wenonah 304-185; Woodbury Heights, 236-75; National Park, 236-81; and Westville, 384-202."
  13. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98366081/gateway-regional-referendum-on/ "4 Towns Approve School"
  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 September 9, 2012.
  16. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed September 9, 2012.
  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/0582002554/school.aspx School Overview; Click on "Rankings" for 2003-11 HSPA results
  19. https://www.njsiaa.org/schools/gateway-regional-high-school Gateway Regional High School
  20. http://thecolonialconference.org/schools/ Schools
  21. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-10/2020-2021-lc-officers-schools.pdf League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021
  22. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022-08/General%20Classifications%20%2722-%2723%20-%20%2723-%2724.pdf NJSIAA General Classifications - Public Schools 2022-2023 and 2023-2024
  23. https://www.gridironnewjersey.com/schoolDetail.aspx?schoolid=88 Gateway Gators
  24. https://www.westjerseyfootball.com Home Page
  25. 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
  26. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-12/fall-co-ops-2020-21.pdf NJSIAA Fall Cooperative Sports Programs
  27. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-12/winter-co-ops-2020-21.pdf NJSIAA Winter Cooperative Sports Programs
  28. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/21-girls-field-hockey_0.pdf History of NJSIAA Field Hockey Championships
  29. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2024-02/Softball%2023.pdf Softball Championship History 1972–2023
  30. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/176160172/ "Schalick wins softball by beating Cedar Grove"
  31. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/21-boys-soccer-history.pdf NJSIAA History of Boys Soccer
  32. Toll, Matt. "Gateway tops Harrison, 2-0, to take state Group 2 crown; Goalie Steve Kunz led the Gators to their first state championship by stopping everything in sight. Tom Lyons and Chris Humes took care of the scoring.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 1992. Accessed March 11, 2021. "His Gateway boys' soccer team had looked shoddy in its scrimmages. The coach wasn't sure the Gators would manage a .500 record. Last night at Trenton State College, they became state champions. Gateway shut down Harrison, 2-0, to win the Group 2 state title, the first in the school's history.... As usual, Tom Lyons and Chris Humes took care of the scoring they've combined for 42 of the team's 64 goals this season as the Gators ran their record to 20-3."
  33. http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=322555&tclass=Public%20Semis%2FFinals 2009 Baseball Tournament - Public Semis/Finals
  34. https://www.gatewayhs.com/district/staff_directory Staff Directory
  35. https://homeroom6.doe.state.nj.us/directory/district/county/gloucester New Jersey School Directory for Gloucester County
  36. https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/dwb/DistrictByTypeList2018.pdf New Jersey Boards of Education by District Election Types - 2018 School Election
  37. https://www.nj.gov/education/finance/fp/acfr/search/23/1715.pdf#page=59 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report of the Gateway Regional High School District
  38. https://www.gatewayhs.com/district/b_o_e_members Board Members
  39. Baxter, Robert. "A symphony in search of an audience",Courier-Post, May 12, 1979 Accessed April 8, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Helen Campo, a junior at Gateway Regional High School and winner of the symphony's student competition, will perform Grifies' Poem for Flute."
  40. Callahan, Kevin. "Versatile Helbig excels in classroom, on track and now with pole vault", Courier-Post, January 9, 2003. Accessed July 24, 2012. "Grace Helbig strives to do really well in the classroom, so it is not surprising the senior at Gateway High School wants to do well on the athletic field."
  41. https://web.archive.org/web/20060614232553/http://zipcodemars.jpl.nasa.gov/bio-contribution.cfm?bid=206&cid=197&pid=197 Mars Exploration: ZIP Code Mars
  42. O'Connell, Kaelin. "Going for the gold", Today's Sunbeam, February 24, 2008. Accessed February 28, 2008. "In 2001 Tim Squyres, a Gateway Regional High School graduate and a Wenonah native, was nominated for his editing work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
  43. Tanaka, Wendy. "Mastermind behind high-concept eateries Since '95, Stephen Starr has built a restaurant empire.", The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 26, 2002. Accessed December 26, 2017. "He grew up in Woodbury Heights, the son of a television repairman. At Gateway Regional High School, he became known for promoting concerts - a fledgling business back in the late 1960s."

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