Asbury Park High School
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| 1003 Sunset Avenue Asbury Park, NJ 07712 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1926 |
| School district | Asbury Park Public Schools |
| Principal | Reginald Mirthil |
| Vice principals | Kelly A. Gayle James T. Parham |
| Faculty | 44.0 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 356 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 8.1:1 |
| Color(s) |
Columbia Blue and Black |
| Athletics conference | Shore Conference |
| Team name | Bishops |
| Rivals |
Neptune HS Long Branch HS |
| Website | School website |
Asbury Park High School is a comprehensive, four-year community public high school headquartered in a landmark building in Asbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, constructed during the New Deal as a model high school campus. The school is part of the Asbury Park Public Schools, an Abbott District that serves children in pre-Kindergarten through twelfth grade. The current school building opened to students in September 1926.
Students from Allenhurst and Interlaken attend the district's schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Students from Deal attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Students from Belmar attend either Asbury Park High School or Manasquan High School.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 356 students and 44.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.1:1. There were 286 students (80.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (2.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school was the 313th-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. The school had been ranked 177th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 280th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 281st in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 296th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 379th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 12 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (16.7%) and language arts literacy (46.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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