Dover High School (New Jersey)


Dover High School is a four-year public high school located in Dover in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades and operating as the lone secondary school of the Dover School District.
The high school serves students from Victory Gardens, which has been consolidated into the Dover School District since 2010. Students from Mine Hill Township attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.
As of the 2017-18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,012 students and 76.6 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 583 students eligible for free lunch and 160 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

History

Dover High School had served students from Denville Township, Hanover Township, Hopatcong, Jefferson Township, Randolph and Rockaway Township, before those districts terminated their sending/receiving relationships and either created their own high schools or established relationships with other receiving districts.

Awards, recognition and rankings

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".
The school was the 238th-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 223rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 220th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 215th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 229th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 172nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics and language arts literacy components of the High School Proficiency Assessment.

Extracurricular activities

Dover High School offers many extracurricular activities after school. Below is a list of some of the activities available:
The Dover High School Tigers 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. With 695 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North II, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 508 to 770 students in that grade range. Prior to the 2010 realignment, the school had participated in the Hills division of the Iron Hills Conference, an athletic conference that included high schools located in Essex County, Morris County and Union County.
The football team won the NJSIAA North II Group II state sectional championship in 1984, 1992 and 1996.
The boys' wrestling team won the North II Group II state sectional championship in 1988.
In 2002, the boys' soccer team won the North II, Group II state sectional championship, defeating Parsippany High School 1-0 in the tournament final. They also won the North II, Group II state sectional championship, defeating Harrison High School 3-0 in the tournament final. In the process making school history by making it to the Group II state final for the first time, ultimately losing to Holmdel High School 4-1 at Kean University.

Notable alumni

The principal is Robert Franks, whose core administration team includes the vice principal, director of guidance and the athletic director.