Atlantic City High School is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Atlantic City, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Atlantic City School District. The current school building opened in 1994 and holds approximately 2,500 students. Students from Brigantine, Longport, Margate City and Ventnor City attend the school as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective school districts.
As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,954 students and 154.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.7:1. There were 1,215 students (62.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 54 (2.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 262nd-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 214th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 247th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 255th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 270 in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 334th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 9 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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History
Atlantic City's first high school building was built in 1895 at Illinois and Arctic Avenues, though the building's small size did not allow much room for growth. In 1901, the high school relocated to a building at Ohio and Pacific Avenues. After the high school relocated a third time, the building was reused as Central Jr. High School for many years. The third building, located at Albany and Atlantic Avenues, opened on September 17, 1923. Constructed at a cost of over $1.75 million, it included a 1,000-seat auditorium and a 6,000-pipe organ.
The fourth, and current Atlantic City High School was constructed on "Great Island," opening to students on November 14, 1994, at a cost of $83 million and had its formal dedication ceremony on November 23 before a gathered crowd of 4,000. The building was designed by Blumberg Associates Architecture.
Athletics
The Atlantic City High School Vikings compete in the Atlantic Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference consisting of both parochial and public high schools located in Atlantic County, Cape May County, Cumberland County, and Gloucester County, operating under the aegis of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,624 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2015-16 school year as South Jersey, Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,082 to 1,934 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Continental Division of the 95-team West Jersey Football League superconference and was classified by the NJSIAA as South Jersey Group V for football for 2017-18.
In 1924, Atlantic City High School won the state swimming championship for a fourth time, setting three meet records in the process, with the Lawrenceville School coming in second and The Peddie School in third. The next year, at a meet held in Philadelphia, the swim team won the national interscholastic championship, breaking the streak of four championships won by Mercersburg Academy. The Atlantic City swim team were the guests of President Calvin Coolidge at the White House, in recognition of their championship.
In 1979, the Boys JV 8 Crew team won the National Rowing Championships in Delaware.
The girls' basketball team won the Group IV state championships in 1981 vs. Eastside Paterson and repeated in 1982 vs. Plainfield High School.
The 1994 Boys Varsity 8 Crew had an undefeated season and won the Triple Crown (Philadelphia City Championships, Stotesbury Cup Regatta & National Rowing Championships). The V8 went on to place 2nd in the Princess Elizabeth Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames River in England.
The 1999 football team won the South Jersey Group IV state championship at Rutgers Stadium with a 31-29 win over Eastern High School of Voorhees, a victory that marked the program's first sectional title.
The boys' basketball team won the 2005 NJSIAA Group IV state championship, defeating Trenton Central High School 71-70 in the semifinals, and Ridgewood High School 56-42 in the championship game at Rutgers University.
In 2007, Todd Busler was one of 50 recipients of the Maxwell Football Club's Tri-State High School Award given to players from schools located in South Jersey, the five-county Philadelphia area and the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania.
The boys' soccer team was 2008 inaugural Brigantine Cup champions.
In 2009, the girls' tennis team won the South Jersey Group IV title beating Millville Senior High School 3-2, the program's first group title.
In 2010, the girls' swim team won the CAL American Conference title and defeated Vineland High School to win the South Jersey Public A championship for the first time in the program's history, going 14-0 before falling to West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in the state semifinals.
The school's gymnasium was home to the United States Basketball League (USBL) Atlantic City Seagulls from 1996-2001. The Seagulls won the USBL Championship in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
In 2012 the Viking's boys' basketball team won the South Jersey Group IV title and the Group IV state championship with a 53-47 win against Elizabeth High School, marking the team's second state title, having won before in 2005. The Vikings again were Group IV state champions in basketball in 2013., defeating Linden High School in overtime by a score of 60-54 to become back-to-back champions.
Dress code
A student dress code was formulated for the 2007-08 school year.
Academics
Atlantic City High School offers many Advanced Placement (AP) courses, in addition to the standard college-prep and Honors classes. ACHS offers 19 AP courses which include: AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Psychology, AP United States History, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Environmental Science, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP French Language, AP Spanish Language, AP Latin, AP Music Theory, and AP Studio Art.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
- Lina Gil, Principal
- Dr. Sheree N. Alexander, Assistant Principal
- Steven Brown, Assistant Principal
- Jason Grimes, Assistant Principal
Notable alumni
- Martin Agronsky (1915-1999, class of 1932), journalist.
- James Avery (1945-2013), television actor.
- Brad (born 1963) and Eric Blumberg (born 1966), real estate entrepreneurs and developers of mobile GPS real estate information technology.
- Carole Byard (1941-2017), visual artist and illustrator of children's books, who was the recipient of a Caldecott Medal and multiple Coretta Scott King Awards.
- Rosalind Cash (1938-1995), actress whose career endured on stage, screen, and television, despite her staunch refusal to portray stereotyped "black" roles.
- Tim Cavanaugh, journalist and screenwriter who is a news editor at The Washington Examiner.
- Joe Cicero (1910-1983), professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Athletics.
- Wayne Colman (born 1946), linebacker who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints.
- Sidney Drell (1926-2016), theoretical physicist and arms control expert.
- Vera King Farris (c. 1938-2009, class of 1954), president of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey from 1983-2003.
- Andrew Fields (class of 1975), collegiate basketball coach and a retired professional basketball player.
- Paul Goldberg (born 1959), class of 1977, Los Angeles session drummer.
- Brian Heffron (born 1973, class of 1993), professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment and Extreme Championship Wrestling.
- Zulfi Hoxha (born 1992, class of 2010), jihadi, ISIS fighter.
- Pete Hunter (born 1980), cornerback for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks who was a fifth-round pick in 2002.
- Lorenzo Langford (born 1955), Mayor of Atlantic City 2008-2014.
- Joseph Lazarow (1923-2008), Mayor of Atlantic City from 1976-1982
- Bob Levy (born 1947), Mayor of Atlantic City 2006 -2007.
- Barry Lubin (born 1952), creator of the clown character "Grandma" of the Big Apple Circus.
- Harvey Mason (born 1947), Los Angeles session drummer.
- Scott Neustadter (born 1977), screenwriter.
- Joshua Ozersky (1967-2015), food writer and historian.
- Joseph B. Perskie (1885-1957; class of 1904), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1933 to 1947.
- Steven P. Perskie (born 1945), judge and politician.
- George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967), founder of the American Nazi Party.
- Lou Roe (born 1972), small forward for the NCAA's University of Massachusetts Minutemen and the NBA's Detroit Pistons and Golden State Warriors. A second-round pick in 1995.
- Jessica Savitch (1947-1983), television journalist, killed in a car accident on October 23, 1983.
- James L. Usry (1922-2002), first African-American mayor of Atlantic City.
- Norman Joseph Woodland (born 1921, class of 1943), inventor of the bar code.
- John "Tank" Toland, (born 1980), professional wrestler, three time OVW Tag Team Champion, wrestler for Ring of Honor.
- Earl Wilson (born 1958), defensive end who played in the NFL and CFL.
See also
- Bader Field (ballpark)
References
External links
- Atlantic City High School
- Atlantic City School District Website
- Atlantic City School District's 2015-16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Atlantic City School District, National Center for Education Statistics
- Article on the history of the old high school buildings
- South Jersey Sports: Atlantic City HS
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