Hammonton High School


Hammonton High School is a comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hammonton, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hammonton Public Schools.
Students from Folsom Borough and Waterford Township attend Hammonton High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Folsom Borough School District and the Waterford Township School District.
Hammonton High School is the newest school of the Hammonton Public Schools, as it opened in 2002.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,393 students and 97.4 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 14.3:1. There were 422 students eligible for free lunch and 65 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Awards, recognition and rankings

Hammonton High School's boys' swimming and diving team was recognized with the Boys Gold Award by the 2005-06 NISCA/Kiefer Scholar Team Award.
The school was the 229th-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 288th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 233rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 239th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 233rd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 175th 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 Hammonton High School Blue Devils compete in the Royal Division of the Tri-County Conference, an athletic conference that operates under the aegis of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,063 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2016-17 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 football team competes in the American Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as South Jersey Group IV for football for 2017-18.
The football team won the NJSIAA South Jersey Group II state sectional championship in 1985, 1993, 1994 and 1996, and won the South Jersey Group III sectional in 2009. The football team won the 2009 South Jersey Group III sectional championship with a 23-17 win over Timber Creek Regional High School, the first Group III title brought home by the program.
The girls' field hockey team won the South Jersey Group II state sectional title in 1996.
The softball team won the 2007 South, Group III state sectional championship with a 6-5 win over Central Regional High School.
The wrestling team won the South Jersey Group III state sectional championship in 2009.

Marching band

The school's marching band was Chapter One Champions in 1973-1979, 1980-1981, 1983, 1989-1990 and 1998. The marching band was Atlantic Coast Champion in Group 3 every year from 1974-1979 and again in 1983. It was the All-State Champion in 2002 and 2005, and the State Champion in 2004 in USSBA competition. The band also won state championships in 2008 USSBA competition as well as in 2016.

Administration

Thomas Ramsay is the school's principal. His administration team includes two assistant principals.