Cedar Creek High School (New Jersey)


Cedar Creek High School is a public high school in Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District and opened in September 2010. The school's colors are forest green, maroon/burgundy and cream. The school mascot is the pirate.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 930 students and 73.4 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.7:1. There were 284 students eligible for free lunch and 77 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Cedar Creek High School is located in the northern section of Egg Harbor City. For the 2010-2011 school year, students in grades 9 and 10 attended Cedar Creek and students in grades 11-12 attended either Absegami High School in Galloway Township or Oakcrest High School in Hamilton Township. For school years 2011-2012, students in grades 9-11 attended Cedar Creek High, while 12th grade students attended either Absegami High or Oakcrest High. In 2012-2013, Cedar Creek housed grades 9-12 and graduated it first senior class.
Cedar Creek High School educates students from Egg Harbor City, Mullica Township, Port Republic and Washington Township. Students from Galloway Township and Hamilton Township are zoned to other schools but are eligible to attend Cedar Creek through the school of choice program.

Athletics

The Cedar Creek High School Pirates compete in the Cape-Atlantic League, which operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 648 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019-20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Independence Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as South Jersey Group II for football for 2018-20.
The girls' basketball team won the Group I state championship in 2012 with a 50-38 win over Whippany Park High School, earning the first state championship in any sport for Cedar Creek.
In December 2015, the boys football team won the program's first state sectional title when they won the South Jersey Group II state sectional championship with a 28-27 win against West Deptford High School, defeating the team that beat them 42-28 in 2012 when they faced each other at Cedar Creek's first championship game.

Administration

The school's principal is Scott Parker. His administration team includes two assistant principals.