Manville High School

Manville High School
Address
1100 Brooks Boulevard Manville , Somerset County , New Jersey 08835 United States
Coordinates	40.543718°N 74.597308°W / 40.543718; -74.597308
Information
Type	Public high school
School district	Manville School District
NCES School ID	340963005238[1]
Principal	Adam M. Wright
Faculty	49.4 FTEs[1]
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	538 (as of 2023–24)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	10.9:1[1]
Color(s)	Royal blue and   gold[2]
Athletics conference	Skyland Conference (general) Big Central Football Conference (football)
Team name	Mustangs[2]
Publication	Hoofprints[3]
Website	www.manvilleschools.org/Domain/9

Manville High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Manville in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Manville School District.

As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 538 students and 49.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1. There were 232 students (43.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 77 (14.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.^[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 277th-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.^[4] The school had been ranked 201st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 196th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.^[5] The magazine ranked the school 144th in the magazine's September 2008 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.^[6]

Athletics

Manville's Ned Panfile Stadium during a preseason Football game against Pingry. The Stadium is named after Alumni, longtime athletic director, football coach, and director of the Manville Board of Education, Ned Panfile.

The Manville High School Mustangs^[2] compete in the Skyland Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools spanning Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren counties in northern New Jersey, operating under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).^[7] With 312 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range.^[8] The football team competes in Division 1B of the Big Central Football Conference, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location.^[9] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 185 to 482 students.^[10]

The baseball team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 1967, 1968 and 1970.^[11]

The wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group I sectional championship in 1982 and 1992-1994.^[12]

Administration

The school's principal is Adam M. Wright. Core members of the school's administration include a vice principal.^[13]

Notable alumni

• Cheryl Chase (born 1958, class of 1977), actress and children's book authors best known for voicing Angelica Pickles in the television series Rugrats and its spinoffs.^[14]
• Gerald E. Loeb (class of 1977), neurophysiologist, biomedical engineer, academic and author^[15]
• Robert Sikoryak (born 1964, class of 1983), artist who specializes in making comic adaptations of literature classics.^[16]

References

1. School data for Manville High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2024.
2. Manville High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020.
3. Home Page, Hoofprints. Accessed May 10, 2022.
4. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
5. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 2, 2012.
6. "Top New Jersey High Schools 2010: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2010, Accessed March 30, 2012.
7. League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed June 2, 2017.
8. NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020.
9. Kinney, Mike. "Big Central revises 2020 football schedule for its shortened inaugural season", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 12, 2020. Accessed April 18, 2021. "The newly formed Big Central Football Conference has released a revised 2020 schedule for its inaugural season.... the BCFC is comprised of schools from Middlesex, Union, Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties."
10. NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2024–2026, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024.
11. Baseball Championship History: 1959–2024, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024.
12. NJSIAA Wrestling Team Championship History, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed May 1, 2021.
13. Staff Directory, Manville High School. Accessed May 29, 2024.
14. Lallkissoon, Shane. "Stars Out of Manville", Hoofprints, November 27, 2019. Accessed June 22, 2022. "Cheryl was born and raised in Manville, NJ and attended Manville High School for all 4 years, graduating in 1977."
15. "171 Graduate Manville High", The Daily Home News,June 16, 1965. Accessed March 6, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Gerald E. Loeb, the valedictorian, stressed the practical aspects of high school life in 'Quantity Not Quality Education.' He said more consideration should be given the role of the high school as an end in itself, by developing careers for students who will not jo on to college."
16. "159 get diplomas at Manville High", The Home News, June 11, 1983. Accessed June 22, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "The keynote speeches were delivered by valedictorian Karen Cheng and salutatorian Robert Sikoryak."

External links

• Manville High School
• Manville School District
• School Performance Report for Manville High School, New Jersey Department of Education
• School Data for the Manville School District, National Center for Education Statistics