- Mountain Lakes High School
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Mountain Lakes High School 
Location 96 Powerville Road
Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046Information Type Public high school Established March 17, 1911 School district Mountain Lakes Schools Principal Doug Wilkins (interim) Vice principal Rob Downes Faculty 60 (on FTE basis)[1] Grades 9 - 12 Enrollment 723 (as of 2009-10)[1] Student to teacher ratio 12.05[1] Color(s) Orange Blue Athletics conference Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference Team name Lakers/(The) Herd (Football) Website School website Mountain Lakes High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Mountain Lakes, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Mountain Lakes Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1940.[2]
Students from Boonton Township attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship.[3]
As of the 2009-10 school year, the school had an enrollment of 723 students and 60 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.05.[1]
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Awards and recognition
The school was the 9th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 4th in 2008 out of 316 schools.[4] The school was ranked 5th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.[5]
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 16th in New Jersey and 679th nationwide.[6] In Newsweek's May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Mountain Lakes High School was listed in 3rd place, the 2nd-highest ranked school in New Jersey.[7]
Athletics
The Mountain Lakes High School Lakers compete in the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference which includes public and parochial high schools covering Morris, Sussex and Warren counties in northwestern New Jersey, operating under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA)], following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the NJSIAA.[8]
Mountain Lakes High School is well known for its athletic program. Its major sports are football, lacrosse, and swimming. In 2006, the lacrosse team made it to the state finals. The 2007 boys lacrosse team won the NJSIAA Group I State Championship with an 8-6 win over Madison High School.[9] The team moved on to win the Tournament of Champions, defeating Hunterdon Central Regional High School 9-5 in the semifinals, and took the ToC title with a 13-11 victory over Delbarton School, thereby, becoming state champions.[10] On April 25, 2009, Tim Flynn became the first head coach in New Jersey, and only sixth coach in the nation, to reach 500 career wins.[11] Flynn has been coaching Mountain Lakes High School for 30 years.
The 2007 girls lacrosse team won their own North, Group I state sectional title, edging Chatham High School 14-13 in the tournament final.[12]
The football program, now under new head coach Darrell Fusco, is one of the winningest in the state. It's highlights include several state championships, including two undefeated state championship teams, in the 1970s. It has also recently regained its past glory: From the years 2000-2010 the teams record is 99-15, which includes a 23 game win streak from Thanksgiving 2001 until late November 2003, and they are currently on a 26 game win streak starting from the start of the 2008 season. In 2002 the football program won a state title (North II, Group I) over arch rival Boonton 23-16 to cap a perfect (12-0) season. The football team came into the 2006 state tournament ranked sixth in their bracket, and proceeded to beat #3 seed Glen Rock High School 35-21 in the first round and seventh-ranked Cedar Grove High School by 14-9 in the semifinal game.[13] On December 1, 2006, Mountain Lakes fell to top-seeded Bogota High School 28-0 at Giants Stadium, in the North 1, Group I state championship game.[14] In October 2007, Coach Wilkins won his 300th career game, in addition to having won over 22 CHC titles, won six state titles, a streak of 20 consecutive seasons of making the NJSIAA playoffs, and has not had a losing season since 1984, retiring in 2010 after having won 328 games and a seventh state championship in his 44 seasons with the school's football program.[15]
The boys swimming team won the 2007 North II - B state sectional championship with a 112-58 win over Chatham High School.[16] The team moved on to win the 2007 Group B State Championship, edging Haddonfield High School 86-84.[17] The team won their fourth consecutive title in 2008, matching a feat that had not been accomplished by a public school since the 1970s.[18] The boys swim team won the state championship every season since the 2004-05 season, until losing to Haddonfield in 2010.[19]
The girls swim team won the state title in the 2007-08 season over Chatham High School, making Mountain Lakes swimming to be the first high school to ever have both the boys and the girls win states.[20]
In 2006, the girls basketball team won North I, Group I state sectional title, edging Pascack Hills High School 43-42 in the tournament final.[21][22]
In 2008, the football team won the North I Group I State Championship vs. Glen Rock High School at Giants Stadium on December 5, 2008, by a score of 35-21 and finished with an overall record of 12-0.[23]
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:[24]
- Doug Wilkins, Interim Principal
References
- ^ a b c d Mountain Lakes High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed July 27, 2011.
- ^ Mountain Lakes High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools. Accessed July 27, 2011.
- ^ Mountain Lakes High School 2010 School Report Card, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed April 15, 2011. "Mountain Lakes High School is a 9th through 12th grade school which serves the communities of Mountain Lakes and Boonton Township."
- ^ Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 15, 2011.
- ^ "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.
- ^ Mathews, Jay. "The High School Challenge 2011: Mountain Lakes High School", The Washington Post. Accessed July 27, 2011.
- ^ "The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools", Newsweek, May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.
- ^ League Memberships – 2010-2011, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed July 27, 2011.
- ^ 2007 Boys Lacrosse - Group I, NJSIAA. Accessed June 5, 2007.
- ^ 2007 Boys Lacrosse - Tournament of Champions, NJSIAA. Accessed July 20, 2007.
- ^ "Flynn gets 500th win as Lakers triumph", Jersey Sports Now, April 25, 2009.
- ^ 2007 Girls Lacrosse - North, Group I, NJSIAA. Accessed July 22, 2007.
- ^ 2006 Football Tournament - North I, Group I, NJSIAA, accessed December 24, 2006.
- ^ Destiny finally gets its due, The Record (Bergen County), December 2, 2006.
- ^ Hague, Jim. "Mtn. Lakes football coach to retire after 44 seasons, 328 victories", Daily Record (Morristown), February 5, 2010. Accessed July 27, 2011. "Wilkins met with his players Tuesday night and told them of his decision to retire after 44 seasons, after 328 victories, after seven NJSIAA state sectional titles - including the last in 2009, capping a 12-0 campaign and a 25-game winning streak."
- ^ 2007 Boys Team Swimming - North II - B, NJSIAA. Accessed July 22, 2007.
- ^ 2007 Boys Team Swimming - Group Semis/Finals, NJSIAA. Accessed July 24, 2007.
- ^ Havsy, Jane. "Boys Swim Team of the Year: Mtn. Lakes never let up", Daily Record (Morristown), March 27, 2008. Accessed July 27, 2011. "Mountain Lakes is the first public-school boys team to win four straight state championships since Cherry Hill East in the mid-1970s, and just the sixth since the NJSIAA Tournament began in 1921."
- ^ Havsy, Jane. "BOYS SWIMMING:Haddonfield ends Mtn. Lakes' boys streak at four", Daily Record (Morristown), March 1, 2010. Accessed July 27, 2011.
- ^ Havsy, Jane. "Girls Swim Team of the Year: Mtn. Lakes broke through with state title", Daily Record (Morristown), March 27, 2008. Accessed July 27, 2011. "The Lakers not only qualified for the NJSIAA final, they defeated archrival Haddonfield to win just the second girls Public B title in school history."
- ^ Seegers, Sandy. "Mtn. Lakes holds on to win section", Daily Record (Morristown), March 7, 2006. Accessed August 1, 2007. "The game wasn't at all pretty but top-seeded Mountain Lakes got what it wanted Monday night -- a 43-42 victory over sixth-seeded Pascack Hills for a second consecutive North Jersey Section 1, Group I girls basketball title."
- ^ 2006 Girls Basketball - North I, Group I, NJSIAA. Accessed August 1, 2007.
- ^ Staff. "Mountain Lakes 35, Glen Rock 21", The Star-Ledger, December 5, 2008. Accessed April 15, 2011.
- ^ Main Office, Mountain Lakes High School. Accessed October 5, 2011.
External links
- Mountain Lakes High School
- Mountain Lakes Schools
- Mountain Lakes Schools's 2009–10 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
- Data for the Mountain Lakes Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
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