Toms River High School East


Toms River High School East is a comprehensive four-year public high school, the third high school built in Toms River in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Toms River Regional Schools. It was built in 1979, as the first and second high schools, Toms River High School South and Toms River High School North, were too small for the rapid population growth in the district.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,416 students and 113.6 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. There were 241 students eligible for free lunch and 62 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The school won several awards for its heating system, which utilizes heat generating lighting fixtures. Its school colors are black, gray and Columbia blue. The school mascot is the Raider. The school day lasts six hours and 20 minutes. The Toms River high school day ends at 1:35 PM, one of the earliest daily closing time of any high schools in New Jersey.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 171st-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 225th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 239th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 204th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 205th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. The school is a national school of character as of 2017.

Athletics

Toms River High School East competes 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. The league operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,046 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 794 to 1,076 students in that grade range.
The school is the host school / lead agency for a joint ice hockey program with Toms River High School South, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2016-17 school year.
The boys' soccer team won the 1985 South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship against Jackson Memorial High School and went on to win the Group IV state championship with a win against Westfield High School.
The boys' cross country team won the Group IV state championship in 1988 and 1996.
The girls' track team won the Group IV state indoor relay championship in 1990.
The girls' bowling team won the overall state championship in 1997 and won the Group IV title in 2009.
The baseball team won the 2001 Group IV state championship, defeating North Bergen High School in the tournament final.
The softball team won the 2007 South Jersey Group IV state sectional championship with a 5-2 win over Absegami High School.
The football team has won the Shore Conference Championships in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2009. The school's major rivalry is with the Mariners of Toms River High School North. Every Thanksgiving weekend, the football teams play in the annual "Battle of Bay Avenue."

''Lip Dub'' videos

Toms River High School East was recognized across the state and even the country for their Lip Dub 1 and Lip Dub 2 videos. The lip dub videos feature East students lip-syncing and dancing through the halls and campus of the school. The videos were created and produced by the Toms River Regional Schools TV Network and television production class. The students spent roughly three months planning Lip Dub 1, planning camera movement and timing out cues for the students who were lip-syncing in the video. Lip Dub 1 features about 150 students involved in many different sports, clubs and activities at East.
In that same school year, Lip Dub 1 received so much recognition that it inspired students and faculty at East to request a second lip dub be filmed. Lip Dub 2 involved over 400 students and faculty at East and was featured on News 12 New Jersey as well as WOBM.com, a local radio station.

Notable alumni