Randolph High School (New Jersey)


Randolph High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Randolph, in Morris County, New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Randolph Township Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1973. A new addition was completed for the 2007-08 school year with an extended cafeteria and new second floor wing.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,587 students and 140.3 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1. There were 84 students eligible for free lunch and 35 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Awards and recognition

The school was the 63rd-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 37th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 52nd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 65th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 32nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 90th 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.

Athletics

The Randolph High School Rams participate in the regional Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,074 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North I, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 786 to 1,074 students in that grade range. Prior to the NJSIAA's 2010 realignment, the school had competed as part of the Iron Hills Conference, made up of private and public high schools in Essex County and Union County.
The football team won the North II Group III state sectional championships in 1983 and from 1986 to 1989, and won in North II Group IV in both 1990 and 2010. The Randolph football team set New Jersey state records by winning 54 consecutive regular-season and playoff games and going unbeaten in 59 straight games from 1986 to 1991, a record since broken by Paulsboro High School with 63 straight wins from 1992 to 1998. The team's 34-22 win over East Orange High School in October 1990 had broken the state record of 40 consecutive wins, which had been set by Memorial High School of West New York. The 2010 football team won the New Jersey North 1 Group 4 state sectional title, the team's first since 1990.
The boys' soccer team won the Group III state title in 1986 ; the girls' team won the Group III championship in 1991, 1995 and 2001.
The wrestling team won the North II Group IV state championship in 1991-1995, won the North I Group IV title in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009; the team won the Group IV state championship in 1993.
The field hockey team won the North I / II Group IV sectional title in 1994 and won the North I Group IV championship in 2009.
The ice hockey team has won the Public School state championships in 2003 and 2006 and in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015. In 2003, Randolph High School won its first New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Public School Ice Hockey state championship in the 64-team tournament, with a 7-0 shutout of Brick Memorial High School at the Continental Airlines Arena. The team was the 2006 NJSIAA 64-team tournament. In 2007, they won the championship with a 5-4 win against Bridgewater-Raritan High School. The school won their fourth public title in the 2009 NJSIAA Public School A Ice Hockey state championship with a 1-0 win over Ridge High School. The team won the 2011 Public A title with a 1-0 win against Montgomery High School at the Prudential Center.
The boys' lacrosse team won the Group III state championship in 2005, defeating West Morris Central High School in the tournament final.
The cheerleading squad were three-time national champions, in 2006, 2007 and 2008 at the CanAm Nationals in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. They won again in 2010 at the CanAm Nationals. In 2013, the small varsity team was second in the region behind national champions Burlington High School by 3 points. In 2013 the competition cheerleading team was ranked 16th in the nation in the Small Varsity division in the UCA NHSCC competition at Walt Disney World, which was the first time that RHS was a national finalist in the competition.
The girls' cross country team won the Group IV state championship in 2009.
The 2010 baseball team won the New Jersey Group IV state championship with an 8-4 win over Jackson Memorial High School.

Media

Ram-Page is the school's monthly newspaper, and was the first high school newspaper in the state with a mobile application, available on Android devices.

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are: