Cherokee High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as one of four high schools of the Lenape Regional High School District in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The communities in the district are Evesham Township, Medford Lakes, Medford Township, Mount Laurel Township, Shamong Township, Southampton Township, Tabernacle Township and Woodland Township. Cherokee serves students from Evesham Township. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1978.
The school was known as simply Cherokee High School until the addition of the "South" building in 2001, at which time the original building was renamed as "Cherokee High School North."
As of the 2015-16 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,190 students and 182.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.0:1. There were 180 students (8.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 74 (3.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 80th-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 157th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 134th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 152nd in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 131st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 86th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 30 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (87.9%) and language arts literacy (97.0%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
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Athletics
The Cherokee High School Chiefs participate in the Olympic Conference, which consists of public and private high schools located in Burlington County and Camden County, and operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. With 1,656 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 American 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.
- Basketball championships
- Sectional champions: South Jersey Group IV - 2007, defeating Winslow Township High School 54-43. and 2010, defeating Shawnee High School 56-43.
- Group IV champions: 2010, defeating Plainfield High School 52-38 for the program's first state title.
- Girls field hockey championships
- State sectional titles: South Jersey Group IV - 1997
- Football championships
- State champions: South Jersey Group III - 1981, 1982; South Jersey Group IV - 1985, 1990, 1993, 2005, 2009. (14-0 win vs. Egg Harbor Township), 2010 (33-6 win over Oakcrest); South Jersey Group V - 2013, 2014
- Undefeated Seasons: 1981, 1982, 1985 (11-0), 2010 (12-0)
- Boys soccer
- New Jersey Group IV State Champions 2000, 2010, 2011
- Baseball
- 1985 New Jersey Group IV champions (23-2), South Jersey Group IV Champions, ranked 15th in nation by USA Today
- 2005 South Jersey Group IV Champions, 2015 SJ Group IV Runner up. (13-1 win vs. Washington Township High School)
- 2009 Diamond Classic Tournament Champions
- Softball championships
- State champion: Group III - 1980, 1983; Group IV - 1984, 1988, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2003. The school's eight softball group championships are the most of any public school in the state.
- Undefeated seasons: 2003
- Cross country
- Meet of Champions: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 (ranked 3rd in NE, 8th in nation), 2007
- Group IV State Champions: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007
- South Jersey Group IV Sectional Champions: 1988, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2011, 2016
- Girls lacrosse
- New Jersey Group IV state champions: 2008
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
- Donna Charlesworth, Principal (North)
- Len Iannelli, Principal (South)
- Scott Agnew, Assistant Principal (North)
- David Belville, Assistant Principal (South)
- Shannon Bretz, Assistant Principal (North)
- Chris Callinan, Assistant Principal (North)
- Steve Ciancitto, Assistant Principal (South)
- JoAnn Jankowski, Assistant Principal (South)
- Steve Lee, Assistant Principal (North)
- Dave New, Assistant Principal (South)
Notable alumni
- Jay Black (born 1976, class of 1994), stand-up comic and screenwriter.
- Randy Brown (born 1967), politician who is the current Mayor of Evesham Township and had served as a kicking coach for the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles.
- Mike Devlin (born 1969, class of 1988), NFL football player/coach now with the Houston Texans as the offensive line coach.
- Doug Easlick (born 1980), NFL fullback who played for the Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals.
- Christina Grimmie (1994-2016), YouTube celebrity & season 6 contestant on Team Adam on The Voice.
- Brian Herzlinger (born 1976, class of 1994), filmmaker, My Date with Drew.
- Pam Jenoff (born 1971, class of 1989), author of Quill award-nominated The Kommandant's Girl.
- Dana Kelly, reality TV star, A Double Shot at Love.
- Tom Knight (born 1974, class of 1992), NFL football player Arizona Cardinals, New England Patriots, St. Louis Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- Brit Morgan (born 1987, class of 2005), actress who has portrayed Debbie Pelt in the HBO series True Blood.
- Dennis Norman (born 1980), former NFL football player with the San Diego Chargers.
- Ray Rizzo (born 1992), pro-gamer, three-time Pokémon Video Game World Champion and first American to win the Pokémon Video Game World Championship.
- Richard Ruccolo (born 1972), actor, Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place.
- Michael Schoeffling (born 1960), actor / model who appeared in the 1984 film Sixteen Candles.
- Nicole Wood (born 1970, class of 1988), Miss April 1993 Playboy Playmate.
Other high schools in the district
Other schools in the district (with 2015-16 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
- Lenape High School - located in Medford Township, with 1,768 students from Mount Laurel Township
- Seneca High School - located in Tabernacle Township, with 1,216 students from Shamong, Southampton Tabernacle and Woodland Townships
- Shawnee High School - located in Medford Township, with 1,582 students from Medford Lakes and Medford Township
References
External links
- Cherokee High School
- Lenape Regional High School District
- Cherokee High School's 2015-16 School Performance Report from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Lenape Regional High School District, National Center for Education Statistics
- South Jersey Sports: Cherokee HS
- Online Alumni Community
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