Dover High School (New Jersey)

Dover High School is a four-year public high school located in Dover in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades and operating as the lone secondary school of the Dover School District.

Dover High School
Address
100 Grace Street

Dover
,
Morris County
,
New Jersey
07801

United States
Coordinates40.897378°N 74.562576°W / 40.897378; -74.562576
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtDover School District
NCES School ID3403930[1]
PrincipalRobert Franks[2]
Faculty74.6 FTEs[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment983 (as of 2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio13.2:1[1]
Color(s)  Black and
  orange[3]
Athletics conferenceNorthwest Jersey Athletic Conference
Team nameTigers
Websitedover-nj.org/dhs/

The high school serves students from Victory Gardens, which has been consolidated into the Dover School District since 2010.[4][5][6] Students from Mine Hill Township attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[7]

As of the 2018–19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 983 students and 74.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 567 students (57.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 157 (16.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

History

Dover High School had served students from Denville Township, Hanover Township, Hopatcong, Jefferson Township, Randolph and Rockaway Township, before those districts terminated their sending/receiving relationships and either created their own high schools or established relationships with other receiving districts.[8]

Awards, recognition and rankings

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".[9][10]

The school was the 238th-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.[11] The school had been ranked 223rd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 220th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[12] The magazine ranked the school 215th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[13] The school was ranked 229th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[14] Schooldigger.com ranked the school 172nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 89 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (85.2%) and language arts literacy (88.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[15]

Extracurricular activities

Dover High School offers many extracurricular activities after school. Below is a list of some of the activities available:

  • Key Club
  • Tigers For Charity
  • Botball
  • History Club
  • Dover Debate
  • Fall Play
  • Spring Musical
  • Drama Club
  • Perfect Step
  • Latin Mix
  • Chess Club
  • Jazz Band
  • Marching Band
  • Tigers In Christ
  • Bowling Club
  • Student Council

Athletics

The Dover High School Tigers[3] 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).[16][17] Prior to the 2010 realignment, the school had participated in the Hills division of the Iron Hills Conference, an athletic conference that included high schools located in Essex County, Morris County and Union County. With 762 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range.[18] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III North for football for 2018–2020.[19]

The boys cross country team won the Group III state championship in 1946-1949.[20]

The football team won the NJSIAA North II Group II state sectional championship in 1984, 1992 and 1996.[21]

The boys' wrestling team won the North II Group II state sectional championship in 1988.[22]

In 2002, the boys' soccer team won the North II, Group II state sectional championship, defeating Parsippany High School 1-0 in the tournament final.[23] They also won the North II, Group II state sectional championship, defeating Harrison High School 3-0 in the tournament final.[24] In the process making school history by making it to the Group II state final for the first time, ultimately losing to Holmdel High School 4-1 at Kean University.[25]

Notable alumni

Administration

The principal is Robert Franks, whose core administration team includes the vice principal, director of guidance and the athletic director.[2]

References
  1. School data for Dover High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020.
  2. Staff, Dover High School. Accessed December 1, 2019.
  3. Dover High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  4. Martin, Liz. "Voters have their say on the budgets", Neighbor News, April 28, 2010. Accessed May 10, 2015. "The school board goes from 11 members to 10 after this election as the temporary Board seat assigned to the Victory Gardens representative Danielle Press expired permanently on April 20. Now that Victory Gardens has merged with the Dover school district, there will no longer be a dedicated Victory Gardens seat on the Board. Any resident from either Dover or Victory Gardens will be eligible to run for any available Board seat."
  5. "Victory Gardens" Archived July 23, 2012, at Archive.today, Daily Record (Morristown). Accessed May 10, 2015. "Students in grades K-12 attend Dover public schools."
  6. 13 Non-Operating School Districts Eliminated, New Jersey Department of Education press release dated July 1, 2009. Accessed May 10, 2015.
  7. Dover High School 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 13, 2017. "Dover High School, located 40 miles from New York City, services approximately 950 high school students from the Town of Dover, the Borough of Victory Gardens, and the Township of Mine Hill."
  8. Schoonmaker, Stanley; and Laurie, George. Dover, p. 39. Arcadia Publishing, 1999. ISBN 9780738501192. Accessed September 13, 2017. "During its long history, Dover has been a receiving district for many other Morris County communities. The towns included: Randolph (until 1964), Rockaway Township, Jefferson Township, Lake Hopatcong, Denville, Hanover, Mine Hill, and Victory Gardens. Today, only the latter two send their students to Dover."
  9. Rundquist, Jeanette. "15 N.J. schools named as national 'Blue Ribbon' winners", The Star-Ledger, September 24, 2013. Accessed September 25, 2013. "Five Catholic schools, six county vocational-technical schools and a Yeshiva are among the list of honored schools in New Jersey. Also named as 2013 Blue Ribbon Schools were Dover, Harrison and Wildwood high schools."
  10. 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private, pp. 15-17. United States Department of Education, National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Accessed September 25, 2013.
  11. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  12. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed August 24, 2012.
  13. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 4, 2011.
  14. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
  15. New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010-2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed March 6, 2012.
  16. 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."
  17. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  18. NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  19. NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2018–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, finalized August 2019. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  20. NJSIAA Boys Cross Country State Group Champions, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  21. NJSIAA Football History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  22. NJSIAA Wrestling Team Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  23. NJSIAA 2002 Group 2 Boys' Soccer, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 25, 2007.
  24. Lashley, Josh. "Dover boys soccer sets new standard for success", The Record, December 8, 2017. Accessed September 10, 2020. "Dover finished with an overall record of 21-3-1, winning the NJSIAA North 2, Group 2 championship and the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Liberty Division titles along the way. They won the Liberty with a mark of 9-0-1. The Tigers toppled Harrison, 3-0, to earn the North 2, Group 2 crown. In a Group 2 semifinal, they defeated Newton, 1-0. Holmdel topped Dover in the Group 2 championship game."
  25. Dekayne, Brian. "PHOTOS: No. 6 Holmdel rolls past No. 18 Dover in the Group 2 final", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 19, 2017, updated August 23, 2019. Accessed September 20, 2020. "Holmdel, ranked No. 6 in the NJ.com Top 20, kept its red-hot offensive alive in a 4-1 win over No. 18 Dover in the Group 2 final at Kean University in Union on Sunday."
  26. Westhoven, William. "Seniors Play the Mating Game in Stage Comedy; Celebrated Morris County playwright's Southern Comforts closes out Women's Theater Company season", Parsippany Patch, May 1, 2012. Accessed March 22, 2017. "'I'm a New Jersey girl at heart and most of my plays take place in New Jersey,' said Clark, who graduated from Dover High School."
  27. Jacque MacKinnon Stats, Pro-Football-Reference.com. Accessed March 14, 2018.
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