| Robbinsville High School | |
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 Front entrance of Robbinsville High School, Robbinsville, New Jersey | |
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155 Robbinsville Edinburg Road ,, 08691 | |
| Coordinates | 40°14′15″N74°36′55″W / 40.237371°N 74.615212°W /40.237371; -74.615212 |
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| Type | Publichigh school |
| Motto | Respect Achievement Vision Experience aNd Success (RAVENS) |
| Established | 2005 |
| School district | Robbinsville Public School District |
| NCES School ID | 341710000549[1] |
| Principal | Molly C. Avery |
| Faculty | 86.2FTEs[1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,034 (as of 2023–24)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.0:1[1] |
| Colors | Black Red White[2] |
| Athletics conference | Colonial Valley Conference (general) West Jersey Football League (football) |
| Team name | Ravens[2] |
| Newspaper | The Raven Report[3] |
| Website | rhs |
Robbinsville High School is acomprehensive communitypublichigh school serving students inninth throughtwelfth grades fromRobbinsville Township, inMercer County, in theU.S. state ofNew Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of theRobbinsville Public School District. The school is accredited by theNew Jersey Department of Education.[4]
As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,034 students and 86.2 classroom teachers (on anFTE basis), for astudent–teacher ratio of 12.0:1. There were 39 students (3.8% of enrollment) eligible forfree lunch and 16 (1.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]
The school was the 59th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide inNew Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools," using a new ranking methodology.[5] The school had been ranked 110th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 109th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[6] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 43rd out of 389 public high schools statewide in its 2012 rankings, which was based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (94.4%) and language arts literacy (98.1%) components of theHigh School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[7]
TheNew Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association recognized Robbinsville High School as the Group I winner of the Seventh Annual ShopRite Cup in 2009–10, based on the overall performances of the school's athletic teams which included first-place finishes in boys' cross country and girls' soccer, second place in girls' cross country, third-place finishes in indoor track & field, baseball (tie) and wrestling (tie), along with finishing fourth in both girls' indoor relays and girls' outdoor track and field, with bonus points awarded for not having any disqualifications during the three sports seasons.[8]
There was a great struggle in the community to get the high school approved, and when it was approved, the vote was extremely close, with a referendum passing in 2001 by a 51-49% margin to approve the construction of a $50 million high school building, while a separate ballot for a pool price at $4.4 million was rejected.[9] The school was first opened in 2004 as a wing in the middle school to house ninth graders. The plan was to start with only freshmen and each year fill in an additional grade. In 2005, the new high school building opened.
By the 2006–07 school year, only students in 12th grade from Robbinsville Township were attendingLawrence High School inLawrence Township, as part of the final year of asending/receiving relationship with theLawrence Township Public Schools. With the start of the 2007–08 school year, the sending relationship had ended. As of 2008, Robbinsville High School serves all of Robbinsville Township's high school students on site. The school graduated its first class of 150 students in June 2008.
The school features a large common area with an atrium to serve as a cafeteria as well as several other purposes, an attached music wing, a central hallway which connects the commons area to the four main wings, the kitchen, the black box theater, the 1,000-seat auditorium with a 12-foot-deep (3.7 m) opera pit, the gymnasium wing (including a main gym, auxiliary gym, the weight room, locker rooms, and the trainer's office), and the main office as well as administrators offices on the first floor and contains much technology including a recording studio. Outside, there is a rubberized turf football field along with a track, an aerial obstacle course, and numerous sports fields for all seasons.
Robbinsville High School offers a diverse curriculum to its students covering an art department, business department, English/ language arts department, family and consumer science department, health department, mathematics department, music and performing arts department, science department, social studies department, technology department, and world languages department. Students may also take classes at nearby colleges, typicallyMercer County Community College.
Robbinsville High School offersadvanced placement college credit in the following courses:[10]
Extracurricular activities and clubs offered at the high school include:[11]
The debate team finished an undefeated season in 2010 and was named Colonial Valley Conference champions. In 2011 the debate team renewed their title as champions.[12]
The Raven Regiment received the "Best Visuals" award at the NJ State Marching Band Competition in 2009, and won fourth out of 23 bands at the Northern States Marching Band Competition in 2010. In their 2011 season, the Regiment took seventh out of 21 at Nationals inAllentown, Pennsylvania. The band also moved up from a IA class to a IIA class band.
In 2012, the Raven Regiment was the only New Jersey band invited to perform at the second annual Pearl Harbor Day Parade inHonolulu, Hawai'i.
In 2014, the band received the award for "Best Color Guard" at the USBands IIA state championships. They later placed fifth out of 18 bands at the National Championships.
The Raven Regiment moved up from a IIA to a IIIA class band in 2015.[13]
In 2018, the Raven Regiment won first place out of nine bands at the USBands New Jersey State Championships (IIIA) inGlassboro, New Jersey, on October 28. The following week, the Raven Regiment placed second out of 16 bands at the USBands A Class National Championships (III) in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on November 4.[14]
In 2022, the Raven Regiment moved up from a IIIA to a IVA class band.
In 2024, the Raven Regiment placed 2nd out of 9 bands at the USBands New Jersey State Championships (IVA) inSouth Brunswick, New Jersey, on October 26. The following week, the Raven Regiment placed fourth out of 11 bands at the USBands A Class National Championships (IVA) in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on November 3.[15]
With the assistance of a NASA 2008 rookie grant, Nemesis-FIRST Robotics Competition team 2590 won the "Rookie All Star," "Highest Scoring Rookie," and "Finalist" awards, and received the Entrepreneurship Award in 2009, 2012 and the 2012 Chairman's Award at the Lenape District. Nemesis won the 2012 Montreal Regional and the Lenape District and has placed in the top 10 at the New Jersey; Boston; and the Washington, DC, regionals and awarded the 2010 "Industrial Design" Award and 2011, 2012 "NJ Best Website Award" and were semifinalists at the World Championship in St. Louis. As a Project Lead the Way High School, qualified students earn three college credits for successful completion of projects-based pre-engineering classes that teach fundamental problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. In 2011, RHS gained national recognition as an Exemplary Career and Technical Education (CTE) program by the National Association of State Directors of CTE for the implementation of PLTW and the FIRST Robotics Team.[16]
In 2013 Nemesis won the Chairman's Award and also ranked first in the Mid-Atlantic. They finished the season as quarter-finalists in the Archimedes Division of the FIRST World Championship. In 2014 they went further to win first place in the Archimedes Division and then became Einstein Field semifinalists.
During autumn, a dramatic play is performed. In the spring, the school performs a musical, and then a series of acts named the "Senior One Acts" where the seniors direct one-act plays with other students as performers. Students from the theatre department have also participated in a competition hosted by the Speech and Theatre Association of New Jersey, and the New Jersey State Thespian Festival. Other activities include an improvisation club as well as a drama club, and a competition of Shakespearean acts in the spring.
The Theatre Department has given many performances including:
The Robbinsville High School Ravens[2] compete in theColonial Valley Conference, which is comprised of high schools located inMercer County,Monmouth County andMiddlesex County, and operates under the supervision of theNew Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[17] With 740 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range.[18] The football team competes in the Valley Division of the 94-teamWest Jersey Football League superconference[19][20] and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 695 to 882 students.[21]
The school participates as the host school / lead agency for joint cooperative ice hockey and boys' / girls' swimming teams withAllentown High School. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.[22]
Interscholastic sports offered at Robbinsville High School include:[2][23]
In 2008, the baseball team turned a 2007 season total of two wins into a 16–14 record, a Group I Central Jersey sectional championship and a spot in the state final before losing toLyndhurst High School in the tournament final. In 2009, the team advanced to the state tournament, but lost 9–7 toDavid Brearley High School. The 2010 team won a school-record 23 games and the program's second Central Jersey Group I sectional championship. The 2011 team went 25–4 and won their first-ever Mercer County Tournament championship, defeatingSteinert High School for only the second time in school history (the first being earlier that season).[24]
The boys' cross country team qualified for the state finals in 2006 and 2007, and won the Group I state championship in 2009.[25] The girls' cross country team was second in Central Jersey Group I and qualified for states in 2007 and 2009.
The girls won the Group I state title in 2008 with Megan Flynn as the individual Group I winner that season.[26]
In the fall of 2010, both the boys' and girls' cross country teams captured the Patriot Division after deciding victories overHopewell Valley Central High School at Mercer County Park. The boys finished with a dual meet record of 10–3, and the girls finished with a record of 12–1.
Again in 2011, the boys team captured the title as Patriot Division champions.
The girls' field hockey team qualified for the 2007 North II Group I tournament, ending their regular season with a record of 12–4, and placed as the #3 seed in the tournament.[27] The field hockey team secured the 4th seed in the 2007 Mercer County Tournament, and advanced to the semi-finals before falling toStuart Country Day School 2–1 in overtime, and advanced to the sectional semi-finals again in 2011.[28]
In 2007, the varsity football team finished the regular season with a 6–3 record and qualified for the NJSIAA playoffs, losing toAsbury Park High School, the eventual Group I Champions, by a 41–0 score in the first round of the Central Jersey, Group I tournament.[29]
In 2019, the varsity football team won the West Jersey Football League division championship on the road againstHaddon Township High School with a final score of 8–2, finishing the regular season undefeated at 9–0 for the first time.[30]
The boys' ice hockey team won the Patriot Division and went to the Mercer County quarterfinals, NJSIAA Public B first round as well as winning the Mercer County Tournament two years in a row (2023 and 2024).
The girls' soccer team won the Group I state title in 2008 (defeatingWaldwick High School in the championship game) and 2009 (vs.Cresskill High School).[31] The girls' soccer team made it to the 2006 state playoff tournament for Central Jersey Group I, defeatingMiddlesex High School 2–1 in the first round, before falling toMetuchen High School by 2–0 in the semifinals.[32]
The 2008 team won the Group I state title with a 3–0 win againstWaldwick High School in the playoff finals.[33]
The 2009 team finished the season with a record of 19–3–1 after defeating Cresskill by a score of 3–0 in the championship game, to become the first public school in two decades to win consecutive Group I titles.[34]
The 2022 boys soccer team won the Group III state title, the program's first, by defeatingWest Morris Mendham High School in 4–2 in penalty kicks in the championship game, after ending regulation and overtime tied at 1–1.[35]
The softball team has won state championships in Group II in 2011 (against runner-upPequannock Township High School in the tournament final), 2013 (vs.Hanover Park High School), 2017 and 2018 (vs.Ramsey High School both years) and 2021 (vs.Verona High School); the program's five state titles are tied for eighth-most in the state.[36]
The 2011 team won the Group II state championship with a 2–1 win againstPequannock Township High School in the final game of the tournament, capping off a season in which the team finished 24-0 and had won the Mercer County Tournament.[37]
In 2013, the softball team won the NJSIAA Group II softball championship for the second time in three years.[38] That year, the softball team became "the first from Mercer [County] to reach three straight state finals and the third from the county to win two state titles."[39]
In 2017, the softball team won the Group II state championship, defeating previously unbeatenRamsey High School by a score of 2–0 in the tournament final, to win the program's third state championship.[40] The team advanced to the inauguralNew Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association softballTournament of Champions as the third seed, losing to sixth-seeded Group I championCedar Grove High School by a score of 2–1 in the first round.[41]
The 2018 team repeated as Group II champion, defeating Ramsey for the second straight year by a score of 6–2 in the finals atKean University[42] and went into the Tournament of Champions as the second seed, falling toImmaculate Conception High School ofLodi in the semifinals by a score of 12–2 to finish the season at 26–2.[43]
In 2012, the girls' swim team earned the Patriot Division title. The RHS swim team is a co-ed team; however, in 2013 the team successfully gained enough members for separate-gender swim teams.
In 2008, the girls' track and field team won both the NJSIAA Group I Central Jersey sectional championship and the Group I state championship.[44] The girls' team won the track and field Central Jersey Group I title for the third time in four years, and the boys also won the sectional championships in 2011. In 2009 the girls' team came in second in sectionals and in 2007 in third. In 2012 the girls' team won their division for the first time. In 2013 the girls' spring track team won the County Championship for the first time.[45]
In 2010, the wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional championship[46]
The school's principal is Molly Avery. Her core administration team includes the two assistant principals.[47][48]
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