Dover High School (New Jersey)

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

Dover High School
Location
Dover High School
Dover High School
Dover High School
100 Grace Street
Dover, NJ 07801

United States
Coordinates40.897378°N 74.562576°W / 40.897378; -74.562576
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtDover School District
NCES School ID3403930[1]
PrincipalRobert Franks[2]
Faculty76.6 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,012 (as of 2017-18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio13.2:1[1]
Color(s)     Black and
     orange[3]
Athletics conferenceNorthwest Jersey Athletic Conference Mascot: Tigers
WebsiteSchool website

The high school serves students from Victory Gardens, which has been consolidated into the Dover School District since 2010.[4][5][6] Students from Mine Hill Township attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[7]

As of the 2017-18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,012 students and 76.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 583 students (57.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 160 (15.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

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.[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]

Extracurricular activities

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

  • Key Club
  • Tigers For Charity
  • Botball
  • History Club
  • Dover Debate
  • Fall Play
  • Spring Musical
  • Drama Club
  • Perfect Step
  • Latin Mix
  • Chess Club
  • Jazz Band
  • Marching Band
  • Tigers In Christ
  • Bowling Club
  • Student Council

Athletics

The Dover High School Tigers[3] compete in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[16] With 695 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 508 to 770 students in that grade range.[17] 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 County, Morris County and Union County.

The football team won the NJSIAA North II Group II state sectional championship in 1984, 1992 and 1996.[18]

The boys' wrestling team won the North II Group II state sectional championship in 1988.[19]

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.[20]

Notable alumni

Administration

The principal is Robert Franks, whose core administration team includes the vice principal, director of guidance and the athletic director.[2]

References
  1. School data for Dover High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 1, 2019.
  2. Staff, Dover High School. Accessed December 1, 2019.
  3. Dover High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 8, 2015.
  4. 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."
  5. "Victory Gardens" Archived 2012-07-23 at Archive.today, Daily Record (Morristown). Accessed May 10, 2015. "Students in grades K-12 attend Dover public schools."
  6. 13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated, New Jersey Department of Education press release dated July 1, 2009. Accessed May 10, 2015.
  7. Dover High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 13, 2017. "Dover High School, located 40 miles from New York City, services approximately 950 high school students from the Town of Dover, the Borough of Victory Gardens, and the Township of Mine Hill."
  8. Schoonmaker, Stanley; and Laurie, George. Dover, p. 39. Arcadia Publishing, 1999. ISBN 9780738501192. 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."
  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. 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private, pp. 15-17. United States Department of Education, National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Accessed September 25, 2013.
  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. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  15. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 6, 2012.
  16. League & Conference Affiliations 2016-2017 Archived 2012-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 10, 2017.
  17. General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016 19, 2014.
  18. Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 19, 2015.
  19. History of the NJSIAA Team Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 8, 2015.
  20. NJSIAA 2002 Group 2 Boys' Soccer, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 25, 2007.
  21. 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."
  22. Jacque MacKinnon Stats, Pro-Football-Reference.com. Accessed March 14, 2018.
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