Toms River High School North

Toms River High School North
Address
Map
1245 Old Freehold Road

Toms River
,
Ocean County
,
New Jersey
08753

United States
Coordinates39°58′56″N 74°11′50″W / 39.982184°N 74.197203°W / 39.982184; -74.197203
Information
TypePublic high school
Established1969; 55 years ago (1969)
School districtToms River Regional Schools
NCES School ID341623004722[1]
PrincipalEdward W. Keller
Faculty136.6 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,931 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Student to teacher ratio14.1:1[1]
Color(s)  Navy blue and
  gold[2]
Athletics conferenceShore Conference[3]
Team nameMariners[2]
RivalToms River High School South
Nobel laureatesMaria Ressa
Websitetrschools.com/hsnorth/

Toms River High School North is a four-year comprehensive public high school, and was the second public high school established in Toms River, in Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Toms River Regional Schools. Toms River High School North is the largest of all schools in the Toms River Regional School district. The TRHSN mascot is the Mariner, and the school colors are navy blue and gold.[2] The other high schools in the district are Toms River High School East and Toms River High School South.

As of 2020, the school day starts at 7:15 am[4] and lasts six hours and 20 minutes.[5] Toms River high schools have some of the earliest daily opening and closing high schools in New Jersey, closing at 1:35 pm every day. Parents lobbied for later high school start times in 2014, but the district found that the cost to purchase the additional buses and additional drivers necessary to accommodate the change would be prohibitive.[6]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,931 students and 136.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.1:1. There were 427 students (22.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 108 (5.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e School data for Toms River High School North, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference NJSIAAprofile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Shore was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Torrence, Marc; and Wall, Karen. "Does School Start Too Early? In Toms River, Some Say Yes; Researchers say getting more sleep improves academic performance; some Toms River parents have lobbied the district to make a change.", Toms River Patch, August 10, 2015. Accessed November 29, 2015. "Homeroom in Toms River's three high schools and Intermediate North starts at 7:15 a.m., with Intermediate South and East starting at 7:45 a.m."
  5. ^ Toms River High School North 2013-14 School Performance Report, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 29, 2015.
  6. ^ Oglesby, Amanda. "NJ high schools start too early, and here's why", Asbury Park Press, April 26, 2017. "In 2014, a group of local parents launched a petition and urged the Board of Education to push back start times at the township's three high schools, following the release of the American Academy of Pediatrics' report. But after an exhaustive study, Toms River school administrators found that a change would have required the district to buy more buses for its 165-vehicle fleet and hire additional staff to bus their 15,000 students, Superintendent David Healy said.... Toms River's high schools and one of its intermediate schools begin at 7:15 a.m., Healy said."