Middlesex High School


Middlesex High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in the center of Middlesex, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Middlesex Board of Education. The school is surrounded by Mountain View Park and all its athletic complexes, including Memorial Field.
As of the 2017–18 school year, the school had an enrollment of 635 students and 59.8 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 10.6:1. There were 132 students eligible for free lunch and 45 eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 177th-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 155th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 183rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 169th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 148th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 158th 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 Middlesex High School Blue Jays compete in the Greater Middlesex Conference, which includes public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County area and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 467 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015–16 school year as Central Jersey, Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 12 to 467 students in that grade range.
The school is the host school / lead agency for a cooperative wrestling program with Dunellen High School, under an agreement that expires at the end of the 2018–19 school year.
The football team won the NJSIAA state championship Central Jersey Group II in 1974, then in Central Jersey Group I in 1981, 1982 and 1984. In a turnaround from winning only one game in 2016, the football team won the 2017 Central Jersey Group I state sectional tournament with a 33–21 win at Alumni Stadium at Kean University against seventh-seeded Point Pleasant Beach High School in the tournament final.
The baseball team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 1982, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2007 and again in 2013. The team won the New Jersey State Group I championship in 1990 vs. New Providence High School and again in 2007 and in 2013. The team won the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament Championship in 2012, with a 10–4 win over Sayreville High School.
The boys' wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group I state championships in 1985 and 1986.
The softball team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional titles from 2001 through 2004. The team won the New Jersey State Group I championship in 2004, defeating Cedar Grove High School in the playoff finals. Increased enrollment made Middlesex a Group II team in 2005 and they won the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament championship in 2005 with a 2–1 win in extra innings against East Brunswick High School.
The boys tennis team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional title in 2003, and in 2007 with a 3–2 win vs. Florence Township Memorial High School.
The boys' basketball team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional title in 1994.
The boys cross country team won the Mountain Valley Conference championship in 1982, 1983, 1989, 1991, and 1992.
Girls Track two-time GMC division champs
Core members of the school's administration are: