High Point Regional High School

High Point Regional High School
Address
299 Pidgeon Hill Road
Wantage Township
, Sussex County, New Jersey, 07461
United States
Coordinates41°11′49″N 74°38′52″W / 41.196874°N 74.647871°W / 41.196874; -74.647871
District information
Grades9-12
SuperintendentScott D. Ripley
Business administratorJames Minkewicz
Schools1
Students and staff
Enrollment817 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Faculty68.4 FTEs[1]
Student–teacher ratio11.9:1[1]
Other information
District Factor GroupDE
Websitewww.hpregional.org
Ind. Per pupil District
spending		 Rank
(*)		 9-12
average		 %± vs.
average
1ATotal Spending$25,67942$18,89135.9%
1Budgetary Cost19,6844615,59226.2%
2Classroom Instruction11,195478,80727.1%
6Support Services2,608332,29413.7%
8Administrative Cost1,968441,59223.6%
10Operations & Maintenance2,502461,95428.0%
13Extracurricular Activities1,1424187330.8%
16Median Teacher Salary83,0244371,726
Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.[2]
*Of 9-12 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=47
High Point Regional High School
Location
Map
Information
TypeRegional public high school
EstablishedSeptember 1966
NCES School ID340714005358[1]
PrincipalJon Tallamy
Faculty68.4 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment817 (as of 2022–23)[1]
Student to teacher ratio11.9:1[1]
Color(s)  Scarlet and
  silver[3]
Athletics conferenceNorthwest Jersey Athletic Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference (football)
Team nameWildcats[3]
PublicationCalliope (literary and arts magazine)[4]
YearbookObelisk[4]

High Point Regional High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Wantage Township, in the U.S. state of New Jersey (with a Sussex postal address),[5] which is the sole high school in its school district.[6][7][8]

The district educates students in ninth through twelfth grades from municipalities in Sussex County, specifically the constituent districts of Wantage Township, Sussex Borough, Branchville Borough, Frankford Township, and Lafayette Township, with students from Montague Township attending as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[9][10][11][12] The high school was established in 1963 and is located in Wantage Township. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Department of Education.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 817 students and 68.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.9:1. There were 112 students (13.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 16 (2.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "DE", the fifth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.[13]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h School data for High Point Regional High School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  2. ^ Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending April 2013, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2013.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NJSIAAprofile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b Clubs and Organizations, High Point Regional High School. Accessed April 4, 2022.
  5. ^ "Zoning Map" (PDF). Wantage Township, New Jersey. Retrieved April 4, 2021. - School indicated on the map.
  6. ^ Public School Directory 2023-2024, Sussex County, New Jersey. Accessed March 1, 2024.
  7. ^ School Performance Reports for the High Point Regional High School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 3, 2024.
  8. ^ New Jersey School Directory for the High Point Regional High School District, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed February 1, 2024.
  9. ^ High Point Regional Board of Education Bylaw 0110 - Name and Classification, High Point Regional High School. Accessed March 31, 2020. "Composition -The High Point Regional High School District shall comprise all the area within the municipal boundaries of Branchville, Frankford, Lafayette, Sussex and Wantage for the purpose of providing a program of education in grades 9 through 12."
  10. ^ High Point Regional High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed December 4, 2017. "High Point Regional High School is a comprehensive high school serving the diversified needs of the five surrounding municipalities of Branchville, Frankford, Lafayette, Sussex and Wantage. In addition, we are in a send/receive relationship with the Montague school district."
  11. ^ 2016-17 School Profile, High Point Regional High School. Accessed November 3, 2017. "Located 63 miles northwest of Manhattan in bucolic Sussex, County NJ, High Point serves students from six municipalities: Branchville, Lafayette, Frankford, Montague, Sussex, and Wantage."
  12. ^ Montague Township School District 2016 District Narrative Archived December 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey School Report Card. Accessed December 4, 2017. "Montague Township is located in the Delaware Highlands Region of New Jersey. High Point State Park and Stokes State Forest provide the scenery to this rural Sussex County community. Montague Township School District is a Pre-K through grade 8 school in Sussex County. Montague students attend High Point Regional High School for grades 9 through 12."
  13. ^ NJ Department of Education District Factor Groups (DFG) for School Districts, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed November 19, 2014.