Manasquan High School


Manasquan High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Manasquan, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone high school of the Manasquan Public Schools. In addition to students from Manasquan, the high school also serves students from Avon-by-the-Sea, Belmar, Brielle, Lake Como, Sea Girt, Spring Lake and Spring Lake Heights, who attend Manasquan High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective districts.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 969 students and 72.9 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 13.3:1. There were 100 students eligible for free lunch and 27 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Manasquan High School has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1935. In March 2004, a validation team visited the school and recommended that the school's accreditation should be extended.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 143rd-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 145th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 124th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 115th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 108th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 58th 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.
In 1996-97, Manasquan High School's Horticultural Botany program, taught at Barlow's Flower Farm, was recognized by the New Jersey Department of Education as a "Best Practice" of educational partnership.

Curriculum

The Course Ahead Program allows seniors to take courses in European and American History, Calculus, and Entrepreneurship at Georgian Court College and earn up to 12 college credits.
Students have the option to take Advanced Placement courses in their Junior and Senior years. After taking these classes, students can take the national administered AP examinations, which can earn students credit at most institutions of higher learning. The high school offers AP courses in Language and Composition, Literature, World History, United States History, Psychology, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Calculus, Spanish, and French.
The Academy of Finance program focuses on the field of finance, using a curriculum that combines traditional classroom instruction, with lectures from experts in the subject, mentoring and job shadowing with industry specialists. Students gain practical knowledge and skills through a paid summer internship that is required as part of the program. Students are awarded a Certificate in Financial Studies upon satisfactory completion of the Academy curriculum mandates.

Extracurricular activities

Manasquan High School offers many clubs and after school activities. Clubs include the Environmental Club, Film Club, Friends Helping Friends, Amnesty International, Ping-Pong Club, History Club, Mock Trial, Model United Nations, Key Club, the National Honor Society, the Academy of Finance, DECA, Academic Team, and others.

Athletics

The Manasquan High School Warriors compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore in Monmouth County and Ocean County and operating under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 749 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as Central Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 498 to 750 students in that grade range.
The school is the host school / lead agency / host for joint boys' / girls' bowling, gymnastics, ice hockey and boys' / girls' swimming programs with Point Pleasant Beach High School, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2019-20 school year.
The school is known for its intense sports rivalry with Wall High School in Wall Township. The rivalry culminates every year on Thanksgiving, where the football teams face off with MHS always holding their homecoming, whether they are the home or away team. The school had a longstanding rivalry with Point Pleasant Boro High School.
The boys baseball team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 1969, and won the Group II state championship in 1986 vs. Jefferson Township High School.
The boys tennis team won the Group III state championship in 1976, defeating Collingswood High School in the tournament final; The team lost to Christian Brothers Academy for the overall state title.
The girls field hockey team won the Central Jersey Group III state sectional title in 1976, and won the Central Jersey Group II titles in 1990, 1995 and 1998.
The girls' basketball team won the Group II state championship in both 1987 and 1988 vs. Jefferson Township High School and in 2014 vs. Newton High School, and won the Group III title in 2012 vs. Teaneck High School.
The football team won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II state sectional championship in 1990 and 1991, 1993, 1998 to 2002, 2005 and 2008, as well as the South Jersey Group II title in 2006. The 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010 teams all won divisional championships. The 2006 team went 12-0 and won the Central Jersey Group II state sectional title with a 28–0 win over West Deptford High School in the sectional title game, one of 10 state titles won by coach Vic Kubu during his 22-year tenure at Manasquan before his death in 2007. The 2008 football team also won the Central Jersey Group II sectional title, coming from a touchdown behind at the half to a 19–14 win against Arthur L. Johnson High School at Rutgers Stadium, the program's 11th sectional title. The team won the program's 12th title in 2016 with a 42-6 win against Bernards High School in the Central Jersey Group II tournament final.
The 2007 girls tennis team won the Central Jersey, Group II state sectional championship with a 3–2 win over Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School in the tournament final.
The Manasquan Warrior Band performs at all football games, playing music both in the stands and during halftime. The Manasquan High School Warrior Band has performed a Queen Extravaganza themed show, in which songs include Don't Stop Me Now, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bicycle Race, We Are the Champions, and the Manasquan High School "School Song". The band has a repertoire of over 70 songs. The Warrior Band Drum Line also features a Percussion Ensemble using trash cans instead of drums, called Big Bang, as a part of the Warrior Jazz Band.

Administration

The school's principal is Robert Goodall. His administration team includes two assistant principals.

Notable alumni