Millville Senior High School


Millville Senior High School is a comprehensive community public high school located in Millville, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in eleventh grade and twelfth grade as part of the Millville Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1943.
Maurice River Township sends 180 students who attend the district's high schools, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Maurice River Township School District. Commercial Township and Lawrence Township also send students to the district's high schools; The sending districts filed suit in 2009, challenging the way in which the Millville district charges for students from outside the district to attend the school. Students from Woodbine had attended the district's high schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship, before the Woodbine district switched to have students attend Middle Township High School starting with freshmen starting school in the 2013-14 school year.
As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,132 students and 93.1 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1. There were 489 students eligible for free lunch and 95 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
As part of a $114.5 million expansion project overseen by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority and scheduled to start in 2017, the school's capacity will be doubled to accommodate up to 2,300 students, allowing all of the freshmen and sophomore classes that had been at Memorial High School to be consolidated at the Senior High School building; for the 2017-18 school year, all high school students were shifted into Millville High School.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 291st-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 308th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 306th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 289th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 295th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Millville High School is a participant in the NASA Toys in Space program, a joint project of American and Russian students to learn the science behind designing a toy, and about the study of space.

Athletics

The Millville Senior High School Thunderbolts compete in the Atlantic Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference consisting of both parochial and public high schools located in Atlantic County, Cape May County, Cumberland County and Gloucester County that operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,348 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,082 to 1,934 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Continental Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as South Jersey Group V for football for 2017-18.
Since 1893, Vineland High School, in Vineland, has participated in an annual Thanksgiving football game with Millville High School. The rivalry is the one of the oldest public high school rivalries in the United States and the state's oldest, with Vineland leading the series 64-63-19, heading into the 2017 game.
The boys' tennis team was the state overall co-champion in 1950 with Asbury Park High School.
The football team won the NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV state sectional title in 1975. The team won the South Jersey Group V state sectional championship in 2016, defeating Toms River High School North by a score of 22-16 in the tournament final.
Field hockey coach Claudia E. McCarthy, inducted into the New Jersey Coaches Hall of Fame in 1990, won her 500th game in 2011 in her 41st season as a coach, with a win against Middle Township High School. She became the fifth coach to reach 500 field hockey victories.

Administration

The principal is Stephanie DeRose.

Notable alumni