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Newton North High School student: 'When I came here I was terrified [nervous laughter from class]. When you live in an all-white suburb and turn on the TV you get all this violence about city schools. I had this big violent picture of the Boston schools. A lot of kids here I think are really nice. I shouldn't be surprised at that.'

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Dorchester High School student:

'They still seem like a bunch of robots; they don't have feelings; they're too serious. But maybe not as much as I thought.'

As they discuss these stereotypes on the last day of their experimental exchange program, the students laugh at their original perceptions of one another -- of Newton as 'goofy, stuck-up rich people;' of Dorchester as 'dangerous, violent, bombed out.'

At the same time they acknowledge that the two communities seem further than 15 miles apart. 'Psychologically, they're 100 miles apart,' one student says. 'It's like going to another country.'

A bridge between the two 'countries' of Dorchester and Newton began to form in the spring of 1980 when Newton North High School students, studying 19 th-century education and black history, expressed an interest in visiting a Boston school. Their teachers, henry Bolter and Paula Evans, contacted the Educational Collaborative for Greater Boston (Edco), a state-funded agency providing 13 participating communities with 30 'outside the classroom' educational programs.

Edco proposed the exchange to Dorchester High School and recruited the enthusiasm of two social studies teachers there, Frank Lattaralo and John Palmieri. Actual planning with Edco coordinators began last October, and a six-week, six-session exchange of 25 students from each school evolved for the spring.

'After the first day of the exchange, it was clear that the kids jelled nicely,' Paula Evans reflects. 'But our time frame is definitely too short. The exposure the kids are getting is great, but to assume that we've gone a lot further is too hopeful.' Describing Newton North's plans to expand the exchange next year to a full-year accredited course, Paula Evans explains:

'You take a risk when you study something in enough depth to raise difficult questions, questions that can't be answered in six weeks.'

Dorchester High School's building, circa 1923, crumbling, and decorated with graffiti, raised the first difficult questions. Some Newton students felt guilty about Newton North's swimming pool, carpeted library, and elective curriculum.

Dorchester students expressed bitterness about losing their best students and programs to magnet schools. Dorchester students criticized Newton North's open-campus program as offering too much freedom, at the same time objecting to their school's practice of 'locking us up all day.'

But after a morning of classes at both schools, students complained that whether they were at Dorchester or Newton, classes could be boring. 'A class is a class is a class, whether there's a rug on the floor or not.'

Making an exchange program work involves close cooperation between teachers of both schools, a great deal of planning, and flexibility once the exchange is under way. 'Our planning sessions were a real collaborative efforts,' says Larry Raskin, Edco's education coordinator.

Out of the planning sessions came a successful 'buddy system' of pairing students from opposite schools in small groups of two or three students. The 'buddy system' idea was rejected at first by the Dorchester High school administration. 'Getting administrative support is essential for a program like this,' Mr. Lattaralo says.

Once the right elements were in place, the Newton North- Dorchester exchange seemed to run on the enthusiasm and interest of the students. 'I wasn't to thank you guys for having us here,' announced a girl at the end of a day early in the six- week session. 'It seems to me that this is what education is really about.'

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Newton High School
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United States
Coordinates41°03′02″N74°45′33″W / 41.050515°N 74.759079°WCoordinates: 41°03′02″N74°45′33″W / 41.050515°N 74.759079°W
Information
Type
Established1916
NCES School ID3411400[1]
PrincipalJeff Waldron
Asst. principalsRyan Hashway
Samantha Castro
Faculty66.0 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment715 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio10.8:1[1]
Color(s) Maroon and
white[2]
Athletics conferenceNorthwest Jersey Athletic Conference
Team nameBraves[2]
RivalKittatinny Regional High School
PublicationCalliope
YearbookAurora
Websitewww.newtonnj.org/nhs/

Newton High School is a four-year comprehensivepublichigh school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Newton, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Newton Public School District. Students from Andover Borough, and Andover and Green townships, attend the high school as part of sending/receiving relationships.[3][4]

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school is comprised of 715 students and 66.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. There were 125 students (17.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 26 (3.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

History[edit]

Newton's residents approved a 1916 referendum to build a high school. A winning bid was accepted that year, but delays related to obtaining workers and inflated costs during World War I extended the construction. This original building is now Halsted Middle School, with a new building being constructed on Ryerson Avenue in the 1950s. Newton High School had served the region, with 13 districts sending students as part of sending/receiving relationships. The opening of High Point Regional High School in September 1966 ended the attendance of students from Branchville Borough, Frankford Township and Lafayette Township. Students from Fredon Township, Hampton Township, Sandyston Township, Stillwater Township and Walpack Township left Newton High School with the opening of Kittatinny Regional High School in 1975.[5][6]

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Awards, recognition and rankings[edit]

The school was the 168th-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.[7] The school had been ranked 130th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 167th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[8] The magazine ranked the school 160th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[9] The school was ranked 168th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[10]

Academic achievements[edit]

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SAT Scores[edit]

In the 2013-14 school year, Newton High School ranked second in Sussex County out of nine other public high schools in SAT scores.[11]

Graduation rates[edit]

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According to the New Jersey Herald, the graduation rate for Newton High School is 84.8%. This rate exceeds the national high school graduation rate of approximately 70%.[citation needed]

Extracurricular activities[edit]

Newton High School offers a variety of extracurricular activities, clubs, and groups. They include Aurora yearbook, Calliope magazine, Student Council, Peer Leadership, Red Cross Club, Best Buds, Future Farmers of America, Interact, Art Club, Multicultural Club, and Spanish/German/French clubs. Honor Societies include the National Honor Society, French National Honor Society, German National Honor Society and Spanish National Honor Society. Academic Leagues include various Science Leagues (which include the highly successful physics, biology, earth science, and chemistry teams), Math League (a consistent leading county contender), and the Academic Bowl.

Jazz Band[edit]

Programs

The Newton High School Jazz Band program has been highly successful over the past years. Jazz Band is considered an extracurricular, but the high school also offers Concert Band (for lower level performers) and Wind Ensemble (for more advanced instrumentalists) courses which can be added to one's school schedule.

Robotics team[edit]

Newton High School's FIRST Robotics Competition team, team 3142, won the Rookie All-Star Award in the New York City Regional Competition in 2010.[12]

Athletics[edit]

The Newton High School Braves[2] compete in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[13][14] With 578 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as North I, Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 495 to 762 students in that grade range.[15] Prior to the 2010 realignment, the school participated in the Sussex County Interscholastic League until the SCIL was dissolved in 2009.[16] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group II North for football for 2018–2020.[17]

The school participates as the host school / lead agency for a joint cooperative ice hockey team with Lenape Valley Regional High School, while Lenape is the host school for co-op boys / girls swimming teams. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.[18]

Field hockey[edit]

The field hockey team won the North I Group I state sectional championship in 1976, 1979, 2014 and 2016-2018, and won the North I Group II title in 1981-1986.[19]

Wrestling[edit]

The team won the North I Group I state sectional championships in 2009 and 2010, winning against Kittatinny Regional High School both years.[20] 2009 marked the program's first sectional title, achieved with a 40-26 win against Kittatinny.[21] The team won its second consecutive title with a 36-28 win against Kittatinny, and made it to the Group I state championship before losing to Paulsboro High School.[22]

Boys' baseball[edit]

Programs
  • The 1985 boys' baseball team won the Group II state championship, with a 4-3 win against Shore Regional High School on a run scored in the bottom of the ninth in the tournament final.[23][24]

Girls' basketball[edit]

  • In 2001, the girls' basketball team took the North I, Group II title, edging Harrison High School 67-65.[25] The 2002 team repeated the title, topping Indian Hills High School 62-56 in the tournament final.[26] The team won for a third consecutive year in 2003, defeating Dumont High School 67-46.[27]

Boys' soccer[edit]

  • The boys' soccer team won the North I, Group II state sectional championship in 1999 with a 2–0 win over Hopatcong High School.[28]
  • The 2005 team won the North I, Group II state sectional title with a 2–0 win against Glen Rock High School.[29]
  • The 2011 team won the North I, Group II state sectional title with a 1–0 win against Mountain Lakes High School.[30]
  • The team won the Group II state championship in 2012, defeating Holmdel High School in the tournament final.[31]

Football[edit]

The program finished the season with an undefeated 12-0 record and won its first sectional championship in 2017, with a 28-14 win against Lakeland Regional High School in the final game of the North I, Group II tournament, played at Kean University.[32][33][34]

Administration[edit]

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Core members of the school's administration are:[35]

  • Jeff Waldron, Principal
  • Samantha Castro, Assistant Principal
  • Ryan Hashway, Assistant Principal / Athletic Director

Notable alumni[edit]

  • John C. Mather (born 1946), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006.[36]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abcdeSchool data for Newton High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. ^ abcNewton High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  3. ^Newton High School 2013 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed June 7, 2016. 'Newton High School serves students from Andover Township, Andover Borough, and Green Township as well as historic Newton.'
  4. ^Obernauer, Eric. 'Andover BOE to consider its send-receive options with Newton High School', New Jersey Herald, January 19, 2015. Accessed May 30, 2016. 'The send-receive arrangement, under which the K-8 Andover and Green school districts pay tuition to send their students in grades 9-12 to Newton High School, has been under scrutiny ever since a dispute arose nearly a year ago between the sending districts and Newton over the sharing of costs for Newton's multipurpose turf field.'
  5. ^Wright, Kevin M. Newton Public Schools, Newton, NJ. Accessed December 4, 2017. 'At that time, thirteen school districts sent students to Newton High School while two districts sent elementary school children here. Frankford, Lafayette and Branchville students departed Newton High School in 1964 when the High Point Regional district was formed. Kittatinny Regional District subtracted students from Hampton, Stillwater, Fredon, Sandyston and Walpack Townships in September 1975.'
  6. ^Carlson, Joe. 'High Point High School celebrates 50 years', New Jersey Herald, October 2, 2006. Accessed December 4, 2017. 'The school opened in 1966 with students from Sussex and Wantage, Lafayette, Frankford and Branchville. Prior to High Point's opening, Sussex and Wantage students attended Sussex High School. Frankford, Lafayette and Branchville students attended Newton High School.'
  7. ^Staff. 'Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014', New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  8. ^Staff. 'The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical', New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 3, 2012.
  9. ^Staff. '2010 Top High Schools', New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed March 16, 2011.
  10. ^'Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank', New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  11. ^Newton High School 2013 Performance Report, New Jersey Department of Education.
  12. ^About Us, Team 3142 Aperture. Accessed May 14, 2016.
  13. ^Home Page, Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference. Accessed August 27, 2020. 'The Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference prides itself on being one of New Jersey's premier high school conferences and is comprised of 39 high schools located in Northwest New Jersey.'
  14. ^League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 30, 2020.
  15. ^General Public School Classifications 2015-2016, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, as of December 15, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  16. ^Home Page, Sussex County Interscholastic League, backed up by the Internet Archive, as of February 4, 2012. Accessed November 20, 2014.
  17. ^NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2018–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, finalized August 2019. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  18. ^NJSIAA Winter Cooperative Sports Programs, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed December 1, 2020.
  19. ^History of the NJSIAA Field Hockey Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2020.
  20. ^NJSIAA Wrestling Team Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2020.
  21. ^Staff. 'Newton 40, Kittatinny 26 (High school Wrestling scores & results)', The Star-Ledger, February 13, 2009. Accessed August 11, 2011.'Newton, No. 11 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, rolled to its first sectional title in Hampton. Kittatinny, which won the Group 1 title last year, its eighth group championship, held an 11-6 lead before its Sussex County rival, Newton, won the next four bouts to take a 24-11 lead.'
  22. ^Lashley, Josh. 'Newton wrestlers prepare for 2010/11 season: Hoping to best last year's second place finish', The Sparta Independent, December 15, 2010. Accessed August 11, 2011. 'The Braves won the North I Group I sectional crown with a 36-28 win over Kittatinny last February. In the State Group I semifinals, Newton toppled Robbinsville, 39-21. Paulsboro, a stalwart in Group I for many, many years, defeated Newton in the Group I State team championship match last year.'
  23. ^History of the NJSIAA Baseball Championships, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed September 1, 2020.
  24. ^Zedalis, Joe. 'Shore comes up short, loses to Newton in 9', Asbury Park Press, June 16, 1985. Accessed December 24, 2020, via Newspapers.com. 'On an afternoon when every game was a tough one to lose, Shore's 4-3 nine-inning loss to Newton in the NJSIAA Group II baseball championship was an even more bitter pill to swallow considering the unusual circumstances that surrounded the scoring of the decisive run.'
  25. ^2001 - North I, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 12, 2007.
  26. ^2002 Girls' State Basketball - North I, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 12, 2007.
  27. ^2003 Girls' Basketball - North I, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 12, 2007.
  28. ^Public Group Semifinals - North I, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 12, 2007.
  29. ^2005 Boys' Soccer - North 1, Group II, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 12, 2007.
  30. ^Staff. 'Mountain Lakes (0) at Newton (1), NJSIAA Tournament, Final Round, North Jersey, Section 1, Group 2 - Boys' Soccer', The Star-Ledger, November 11, 2011. Accessed September 28, 2012. 'Brett Conrads fired in a through ball from Steven Churchill with six minutes remaining to give Newton a 1-0 victory over Mountain Lakes in the NJSIAA/Sports Authority North Jersey, Section 1, Group 2 sectional final on Friday in Newton.'
  31. ^NJSIAA History of Boys Soccer, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  32. ^Stypulkoski, Matt. 'Newton tops Lakeland for 1st title in 99-year history', NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 1, 2017. Accessed December 4, 2017. 'For the first time in its 99-year history, Newton can call itself a state champion. The fourth-seeded Braves also capped the first undefeated season in program history by downing second-seeded Lakeland, 28-14, in the North Jersey, Section 1, Group 2 final at Kean University in Union on Friday night.'
  33. ^'Football - 2017 NJSIAA North 1, Group 2 Playoffs', NJ.com. Accessed December 4, 2017.
  34. ^NJSIAA Football History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  35. ^School Information, Newton High School. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  36. ^John C. Mather autobiography, Nobel Prize. Accessed June 29, 2008. 'When I finished 8th grade, it was time to go to high school, and my parents decided to send me to Newton High School, where they thought we would get the best available education in our area.'

External links[edit]

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  • Newton Public School District's 2015–16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
  • School Data for the Newton Public School District, National Center for Education Statistics
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