Gloucester City Junior-Senior High School | |
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Location | |
1300 Market Street Gloucester City, NJ 08030 |
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Information | |
Type | public high school |
Principal | Sean P. Gorman |
Asst. principals | Sarah K. Finley Sarah R. Foley Dr. Pat Gismonde |
Faculty | 86.0 FTEs |
Grades | 7-12 |
Enrollment | 789 (as of 2014-15) |
Student to teacher ratio | 9.2:1 |
Color(s) |
Navy blue and gold |
Athletics conference | Tri-County Conference |
Team name | Lions |
Website | http://www.gcsd.k12.nj.us/ghs/ |
Gloucester City Junior-Senior High School is a comprehensive six-year community public high school that is based in Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States, serving students from seventh through twelfth grade as the lone secondary school of the Gloucester City Public Schools, an Abbott district.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 789 students and 86.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.2:1. There were 431 students (54.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 110 (13.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Students from Brooklawn attend the high school for grades 9-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship.
The school was the 270th-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 179th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 194th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 190th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 247th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
The Gloucester City High School Lions compete as a member school in the Tri-County Conference, which operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). With 446 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 78 to 478 students in that grade range.