Central High School (Newark, New Jersey)

Central High School, Newark
Location
Central High School, Newark
Central High School, Newark
Central High School, Newark
246 18th Avenue
Newark, New Jersey 07108
United States
Coordinates 40°43′48″N 74°11′36″W / 40.7300549°N 74.193347°W / 40.7300549; -74.193347Coordinates: 40°43′48″N 74°11′36″W / 40.7300549°N 74.193347°W / 40.7300549; -74.193347
Information
Type Public high school
Established 1912[1]
Principal Sharnee Brown
Vice principals Brenda Lee
Terri Mitchell
Faculty 81.0 FTEs[2]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 834 (as of 2015-16)[2]
Student to teacher ratio 10.3:1[2]
Color(s)      Columbia blue and
     white[3]
Athletics conference Super Essex Conference
Team name Blue Devils[3]
Website School website

Central High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools.

As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 834 students and 81.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.3:1. There were 647 students (77.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 40 (4.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

History

Central High School was originally Central Commercial and Manual Training School, housed in what is now the Central King Building on the campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology. It opened January 31, 1912.

The school provided vocational education, offering a forge and a foundry, a sewing room, a sheet-metal room and a wood shop, as well as an auditorium seating 1,500. The school manufactured tools for itself and the rest of the district.[4]

A smaller school but without forge, the East Side Commercial & Manual Training High School was built at the same time.[5] The decade was active one for the school board. In 1911, it opened a School for the Feeble Minded and a School for Blind.[6] The city closed its last segregated school in 1909.[6]

The school was renamed Central High School and remained at the original address until 2008. The Central King Building at New Jersey Institute of Technology was renovated to support the university and STEM counselling.[7]

The school moved to its current location at 246 18th Avenue, Newark after its $107 million completion in 2008.[8] The move was completed in 2010.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 300th-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.[9] The school had been ranked 277th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 274th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[10] The magazine ranked the school 278th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[11] The school was ranked 304th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[12]

Academies

Central is made up of three academic academies. The pre-engineering, the liberal arts academy and the health/dental sciences academy. Students choose their career track once they have enrolled and began the academic year.

Some aspects of the pre-engineering academy curriculum are; Computer-aided drafting, Computer integrated manufacturing, Introduction to engineering design, digital electronics, and Principles of engineering. These courses expose students to the instruments and practices that may be used when they enter the field of engineering.

Project Grad Scholarship

Central students are given the opportunity to earn a scholarship towards their college education, called the Project Grad Newark College Scholarship . The students and the students' parents read and sign a pledge stating that the student will meet minimum requirements. Some include; maintaining an average GPA of 2.5 or better, completing two college-bound summer institutes, graduating in four years. When the student completes these requirements, they are awarded $6,000 which is paid in installments over the span of four years to the college they plan to attend.

Athletics

The Central High School Blue Devils[3] compete in the Super Essex Conference, which includes public and private high schools in Essex County and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[13] With 584 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North II, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 504 to 770 students in that grade range.[14] Before the 2009 realignment, the school had competed in the Mountain Valley Conference, which consisted of public and parochial high schools covering Union County and Essex County in northern New Jersey.[15]

Athletic programs offered at the school include:[3]

  • Fall sports: Football, Cross Country, Soccer, Cheerleading and Girls Volleyball
  • Winter sports: Boys Basketball, Bowling, Indoor Track, Girls Basketball and Cheerleading
  • Spring sports: Baseball, Track and Field

The school's football team won the 1924 state football championship, defeating Asbury Park High School by a score of 39-0, in a game that was mandated by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association after the two teams ended the regular season tied in the standings.[16]

The boys' basketball team won the Group IV championship in 1947 against Union Hill High School, in both 1963 and 1964 against Hillside High School and in 2001 against Ewing High School.[17]

The girls track team won the Group III indoor relay state championships in 1982 and 1989, and in Group II in 1983.[18]

The boys' basketball team won the 2006 North II, Group II state sectional championship with a 65-48 win over Madison High School.[19]

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:

  • Sharnee Brown, Principal[20]
  • Brenda Lee, Vice Principal[21]
  • Terri Mitchell, Vice Principal[21]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ History Archived June 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., Central High School. Accessed May 6, 2013. "Central High School, founded in 1911, is located in Newark, New Jersey: the largest school district in the state and one of the oldest systems in New Jersey, dating back to 1676."
  2. 1 2 3 4 School data for Central High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 12, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Central High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ Bolenius, Emma Miller. "A 'New Idea' High School", p. 326. Popular Educator, Volume 32, February 1915. Accessed March 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Ready to begin East Side School". Newark Call. October 17, 1909. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  6. 1 2 District History, Newark Public Schools. Accessed March 9, 2018.
  7. ↑ "NJIT to Host Ribbon Cutting of Renovated Central King Building". The Newark Times. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ Jackson, Chanta L. (May 25, 2009). "New Central High nears completion". Star Ledger. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  9. ↑ Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  10. ↑ Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 1, 2012.
  11. ↑ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed August 7, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  13. ↑ League Memberships – 2016-2017, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 10, 2017.
  14. ↑ General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  15. ↑ Home Page, Mountain Valley Conference, backed up by the Internet Archive as of February 2, 2011. Accessed December 15, 2014.
  16. ↑ Staff. "Newark Team Wins New Jersey Title; Central High School Beats Asbury Park, 39-0, for Scholastic Football Honors.", The New York Times, December 7, 1924. Accessed September 30, 2015. "The Newark Central High School eleven yesterday won the interscholastic football championship of New Jersey, defeating the eleven representing the Asbury Park High School before a crowd of 8,000 persons in the stadium at East Orange, N.J. The final score was 39 to 0."
  17. ↑ NJSIAA Group Basketball Past Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 12, 2015.
  18. ↑ History of the NJSIAA Indoor Relay Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 12, 2015.
  19. ↑ 2006 Boys Basketball - North II, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 7, 2007.
  20. ↑ Principal's Message, Central High School. Accessed December 13, 2016.
  21. 1 2 Vice Principals, Central High School. Accessed December 13, 2016.
  22. ↑ Kwiatkowski, Jane. "A Principled Man", Buffalo News, July 1, 1990. Accessed May 6, 2013. "Was getting tough the answer for Joe Clark? The former high school principal and Army drill instructor made his name nine years ago in Paterson, N.J., as a hard-nosed disciplinarian.... All you have to do is call Central High School in Newark. That was an all-white school, and ironically I was No. 6 in my class."
  23. ↑ Greenhalgh Jr., Paul J. In Search of Corky, p. 19. Accessed December 19, 2017. Xlibris Corporation, 2008. ISBN 9781462805181. "The name 'Corky' linked Walter Devlin to his father. He felt proud of that nickname. Newark's Central was the local high school. Corky's city basketball skills allowed him to blend well with friends he respected."
  24. ↑ via Associated Press. "Al DeRogatis, 68, Sports Broadcaster", The New York Times, December 28, 1995. Accessed October 15, 2013. "Born in Newark, DeRogatis attended Central High School."
  25. ↑ Staff. "No. 1 in Newark Vote; Kenneth Allen Gibson", The New York Times, May 14, 1970. Accessed December 19, 2017. "While attending Central High School, Mr. Gibson played the saxophone in a dance band to help support the family."
  26. ↑ Staff. "Chargers' draft mistakes are a boon to free agents", The San Diego Union-Tribune, December 2, 1999. Accessed May 6, 2013. "DeMingo Graham grew up in Newark, NJ, and lettered in football, wrestling and track and field at Central High School."
  27. ↑ Alvarez, Max. The Crime Films of Anthony Mann, p. 15. University Press of Mississippi, 2013. ISBN 9781496801036. Accessed December 19, 2017. "In New Jersey, Emile Anton attended elementary school in East Orange and high school in Newark but dropped out to go to work. The New York Times obituary reports him leaving high school at age sixteen, but the Central High School transcripts indicate a January 1925 dropout date, when Emile Anton was eighteen."
  28. ↑ Weber, Bruce. "Sherman L. Maxwell, 100, Sportscaster and Writer, Dies", The New York Times, July 19, 2008. Accessed December 19, 2017. "Mr. Maxwell graduated from Central High School in Newark and served in the Army in Europe during World War II."
  29. ↑ Manuscript Group 1287, Hymen B. Mintz (1909-1986), New Jersey assemblyman and collector, New Jersey Historical Society. Accessed March 27, 2018. "Hymen B. Mintz (1909-1986) was born in Newark, New Jersey (Essex County). He was educated at: Lafayette Grammar School, Newark; Central High School, Newark; and at Upsala College where he graduated with an A.B. (1929)."
  30. ↑ "Honoring Kyle Moore-Brown Honoree Of Newark Flight Football's Free Youth Football Clinic August 13, 2016", Essex County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders. Accessed December 19, 2017. "Whereas, Kyle Moore-Brown was born on February 26, 1971, in Newark, New Jersey. He attended the Newark Public School System and graduated from Central High School in 1989"
  31. ↑ Phillips, McCandlish. "Schary Named City's First Cultural Chief", The New York Times, February 25, 1970. Accessed December 19, 2017. "He was born in Newark and attended Newark Central High School, dropping out at 14 to work but later making up the missed credits."
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.