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Public high school
Morris Hills High School
Address
520 West Main Street
Rockaway, NJ 07866
Information
TypePublic high school
MottoChanging the world, one student at a time
Established1953
PrincipalJoe Cacciaguida
Faculty85.4 (on FTE basis)
Enrollment1,125 (as of 2010-11)
Student to teacher ratio13.17:1
Color(s)Scarlet   and White  
Athletics conferenceNorthwest Jersey Athletic Conference
Team nameScarlet Knights
NewspaperHilltopper
YearbookTorch
Websitehttp://mh.mhrd.k12.nj.us/

Morris Hills High School is a comprehensive regional four-year public high school located in the borough of Rockaway, serving students in grades 9 - 12 in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Morris Hills Regional High School District. The other high school in the district is Morris Knolls High School. The school located on the 39-acre (160,000 m) former Gunther Estate, opened to students on September 9, 1953.

The high school serves students from Rockaway Borough, Wharton, and parts of Rockaway Township. Most students come to Morris Hills from Copeland Middle School, Alfred C. MacKinnon Middle School and Thomas Jefferson Middle School.

As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,125 students and 85.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.17:1. There were 186 students (16.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 60 (5.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

The campus of Morris Hills houses The Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering a science-oriented magnet school operated as a joint effort with the Morris County Vocational School District and open by competitive application to all students from Morris County.

Awards and recognition

For the 1996-97 school year, Morris Hills High School was named a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve.

The school was the 42nd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 70th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 106th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 101st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 64th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 35 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (89.6%) and language arts literacy (97.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).

School media

The Morris Hills Hilltopper, the school's official newspaper, is published four times a year in color. Students write all articles and take the majority of the photos, as well as set up the design and comics.

Seed Magazine is the school's annual literary magazine. All students are allowed to submit prose or poetry, or visual works of art (though not all are put into the actual magazine).

Extracurricular activities

Morris Hills houses a large variety of extracurricular activities for its students, ranging from bible club (Velocity) to its very own DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) Club. Many have gained recognition or awards for their duties in the community or their overall excellence in their field, including the Morris Hills Stage Crew (part of drama club), which placed third in the ITS Statewide festival in the 2005-2006 year. Any student is permitted to join any club, a partial list of clubs include:

Athletics

The Morris Hills High School Scarlet Knights now 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. The school had previously participated in the 20-member Iron Hills Conference. With 831 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2011-12 school year as North I, Group III, a category that included schools with enrollment of 819 to 1,112. Sports offered at Morris Hills include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and wrestling.

The football team won the NJSIAA North II Group III state sectional championship in 1975.

The Morris Hills Boys Basketball team made the state tournament for the first time in 10 years in 2006, though it lost in the first round to 6th-seeded Passaic Valley High School 67-45.

Morris Hills also has a successful baseball program, winning 135 games in a span of six seasons with a Morris County Tournament Championship (2002), a North I Group III state sectional title (2004), and five Iron Hills Conference (Hills Division) championships (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007).

Cross country / track and field

Perhaps the best known athletics program at Morris Hills is its men’s cross country and track and field teams, both of which have been very successful in the state, due in very large part to the efforts of head cross country coach Sean Robinson, who took the position in 2002.

Since becoming head coach, Robinson has led the Scarlet Knights to 20 of 28 major high school cross country championships (conference, county, state section and state group) in seven years. The team had been undefeated in dual meet competition in the Iron Hills Conference since 2002.

Robinson took the head indoor track and field coaching position in 2006. In that year, the Scarlet Knights won every major championship they entered (conference, county, state group and state group relay), the first time that had happened in county history. The Scarlet Knights repeated the feat in 2008, 2009 and 2011.

Robinson was coach during Morris Hills’ county track and field championship victory in 2006, the first time the Scarlet Knights had won since 1977.

Morris Hills has also had over 20 All-American honors distributed to its runners since 2005, largely with the success of the school's 4 x mile relay and shuttle hurdle relay teams. Keith Lindsley, the 2007 NJSIAA Athletic Assistant Coach of the Year, is the current sprint/hurdles coach. Morris Hills was selected to participate in the inaugural Nike Team National Cross Country Championship in 2005, where they finished 13th.

Marching band

In 1998, the Morris Hills High School Marching Band, under Director Michael Sopko, was recruited to film an MTV Commercial for the MTV Video Music Awards. The marching band was chosen after being spotted by MTV associates during their annual competition at Giants Stadium. In the commercial, the marching band played clips from nominated songs and ended in a human formation of the MTV symbol. The commercial was aired several times daily leading up to the awards ceremony.

The band was named the 2010 USSBA Group 2 Open New Jersey State Champions.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:

  • Joe Cacciaguida - Principal
  • Bob Merle - Assistant Principal
  • Todd Toriello - Assistant Principal

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ Data for Morris Hills High, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 10, 2012.
  2. ^ Home page, Morris Hills High School. Accessed July 15, 2011. "Morris Hills High School, located in Rockaway, New Jersey, serves the residential communities of Rockaway Borough, Rockaway Township, and Wharton.... The school was first opened for classes on September 9, 1953. A 39 acre site that was the former Gunther Estate serves as campus for Morris Hills."
  3. About Us, Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. Accessed July 15, 2011. "The Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, located at Morris Hills High School, is a rigorous, highly focused four year program for Morris County Students with career interests in mathematics, science, or engineering."
  4. Star School Award recipient detail 1996-97 school year, Morris Hills High School, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed May 29, 2006.
  5. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed August 26, 2012.
  6. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed February 10, 2011.
  7. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  8. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 27, 2012.
  9. League Memberships – 2012-2013, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 27, 2012.
  10. 2011-2012 Public Schools Group Classification for ShopRite Cup–Tennis–Soccer–Basketball–Baseball–Softball for North I, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 3, 2012.
  11. Goldberg, Jeff. NJSIAA Football Playoff Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed January 3, 2012.
  12. 2006 Boys Basketball - North I, Group III, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed June 23, 2006.
  13. Lambert, Jim. "Morris Hills Shakes and Bakes its way to Group 2 sectional sweep", The Star-Ledger, February 12, 2011. Accessed August 20, 2011.
  14. Havsy, Jane. "2006 Boys Outdoor Track and Field Team of the Year: No one could catch Morris Hills", Daily Record (Morristown), June 22, 2006. Accessed July 15, 2011. "Crushed the field in the Morris County Championships with 84 points, earning the school's first outdoor title since 1977."
  15. 2005 Boy's Nike Team National Results, Nike Cross Nationals, December 3, 2005. Accessed January 3, 2012.
  16. Goebel, Caryn. "Congratulations to the 2010 USSBA State Champions!, USSBA, October 26, 2010. Accessed August 20, 2011.
  17. Administration, Morris Hills High School. Accessed July 15, 2011.
  18. Was part of the 1974 Super Bowl winning team.Bruce Bannon player profile, accessed May 2, 2007.
  19. [Staff. "President of HBO, Rockaway's Sue Naegle guest speaker for Morris Chamber.", Daily Record (Morristown), September 19, 2012. Accessed July 2, 2013. "Former Rockaway resident and Morris Hills High School graduate, Sue Naegle, c, now the president of Time Warner's HBO Entertainment was the guest speaker during the Morris County Chamber of Commerce Women in Business, 'Defining Moments on the Journey to Success' event at the Madison Hotel."
  20. Manochio, Matt. "Morris general oversaw capture", Daily Record (Morristown), December 14, 2003. Accessed May 2, 2007. "Raymond T. Odierno, 48, is a 1972 graduate of Morris Hills High School."

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