Manchester Township High School


Manchester Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades in Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, as the lone secondary school of the Manchester Township School District. The school also serves approximately 150 high school students from Lakehurst Borough, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Lakehurst School District.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,006 students and 82.8 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 251 students eligible for free lunch and 83 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 220th-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 245th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 260th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 227th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 256th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Athletics

Manchester Township High School Hawks compete in the Shore Conference, an athletic conference made up of private and public high schools centered at the Northern Jersey Shore. All schools in this conference are located within Monmouth County and Ocean County, and the league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 724 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 496 to 778 students in that grade range.
The boys' track team won the Group II state championship in 1998.
The boys' bowling team won the overall state championship in 2003 and won the Group II state championship in 2010.
The boys’ baseball team won the 2003 South Jersey Group II state sectional title, while the 2003 girls’ softball team won the Group II state championship, defeating James Caldwell High School in the tournament final.
The girls' bowling team has won the Tournament of Champions, the sport's overall state championship, in 2009, 2012 and 2014. The team has been Group II state champions eight consecutive times, from 2009 to 2016; the team's eight group titles are the second-most of any school in the state. Manchester was the first team to win three titles in the Tournament of Champions, since it was introduced in 2007.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are: