Boonton High School

Infobox_School
name = Boonton High School


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established = 1875
grades = 9 - 12
district = Boonton Public Schools
type = Public high school
principal = Augustus Modla
asst principal = Carl Cuccharia
enrollment = 640 (as of 2005-06)
faculty = 51.8 (on FTE basis)
ratio = 12.4
teamname = Bombers
conference = Colonial Hills Conference
colors = Black/Red/White
newspaper = Wampus (We Are Many Proud United Students)
location = 306 Lathrop Avenue
Boonton, NJ 07005
information = 973-335-9700
website = [http://www.boontonschools.org/highschool.htm School website]

Boonton High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Boonton, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Boonton Public Schools. Boonton High School hosts the Morris County School of Technology's Academy for The Visual and Performing Arts. [ [http://www.boontonschools.org/highschool.htm Welcome to Boonton High School] , Boonton High School. Accessed May 25, 2007.]

The high school serves students from Boonton and also those from Lincoln Park, who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Lincoln Park Public Schools, with Lincoln Park students accounting for a majority of students at the high school. The two districts have sought to sever the more than 50-year old relationship, citing cost savings that could be achieved by both districts and complaints by Lincoln Park that it is granted only one seat on the Boonton Public Schools' Board of Education. In April 2006, the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education rejected the request. [ [http://www.nj.gov/education/legal/commissioner/2006/apr/147-06.pdf Commissioner of Education Decision] , New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed January 29, 2008.]

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 640 students and 51.8 classroom teachers (on a FTE basis, for a student-teacher ratio of 12.4. [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3401950&ID=340195004154 Boonton High School] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed November 5, 2007.]

The school was the 112th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in "New Jersey Monthly" magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools". The school was ranked 128th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/highschoolrankings/top-new-jersey-high-schools-by-rank.html "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank"] , "New Jersey Monthly", September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008.]

Athletics

The Boonton High School Bombers compete in the Colonial Hills Conference, which includes public and private high schools in Essex, Morris and Somerset counties. [ [http://www.colonialhillsconference.com/ Home page] , Colonial Hills Conference. Accessed August 15, 2008.]

Notable faculty

* Charlie Weis (born 1956), University of Notre Dame football coach was an assistant football coach at Boonton High School in 1979. [ [http://und.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/weis_charlie00.html Charlie Weis profile] , CSTV. Accessed August 19, 2007. "The Trenton, N.J., native began his coaching career in 1979 at Boonton High School in New Jersey, then spent the next five seasons at Morristown (N.J.) High School as a football assistant."]

Notable alumni

* Amanda Bennett, Pulitzer Prize-winner, formerly of "The Wall Street Journal", now with Bloomberg News [Evans, Thomas. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=0EFDA9208E3482D8&p_docnum=3&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=E65D5ABRMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST FROM BOONTON HIGH: `Wall of Fame' hails achievements Twenty-two more to be inducted"] , "The Star-Ledger", November 6, 1997. Accessed August 19, 2007. "Amanda Bennett, class of 1970, will enter the hall this year, based on her career as a journalist for the Wall Street Journal. Bennett, the Journal's Atlanta bureau chief, was one of a team of the paper's reporters who received a Pulitzer Prize last year for a series on the development and effectiveness of new AIDS treatments."]
* Hector A. Cafferata, Jr. (born 1929), United States Marine awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic service at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. [Seman, Rob. [http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/articles/news2-hector.htm "Ex-Morris vet's name to grace Florida school"] , "Daily Record (Morristown)", February 25, 2005. Accessed August 19, 2007. "Cafferata was born in New York City, but moved to Morris County with his family when he was 9 years old and lived in Lake Hiawatha and Montville. He graduated from Boonton High School in 1949, and was one of the first inductees to the school's Hall of Fame in 1996."]
* Frederick Walker Castle (1908-1944), general officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. [ [http://www.mtnlakes.org/Library/c-bio.htm Brigadier General Frederick Walker Castle] , Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Accessed August 19, 2007. "He entered the United States Military Academy, from which his father was a 1907 graduate, in July of 1926, after attending Boonton High School and Storm King (NY) Military Academy."]
* Jim Kiick (born 1946), former NFL halfback. [ [http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=KIICKJIM01 Jim Kiick] , database Football. Accessed August 19, 2007.]
* Peter Onorati (born 1954), actor. [Robertson, Nan. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7DD163FF933A05754C0A961948260 "Heard but Unseen, Seven Actors Share 'Talk Radio' Roles"] , "The New York Times", July 30, 1987. Accessed April 4, 2008. "My coach at Boonton High School in New Jersey used to say of me, 'One hundred seventy-two pounds of blue twisted steel, tempered to perfection'," Mr. Onorati recalled with a laugh..."]
* Jeffrey L. Seglin (born 1956), Newspaper columnist.Fact|date=November 2007

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are: [ [http://www.boontonschools.org/ Contact Information] , Boonton High School. Accessed August 21, 2008.]
*Augustus Modla, Principal
*Carl Cuccharia, Assistant Principal
*David Hughen, Athletic Director
*Lois Branch, Director of Guidance

References

External links

* [http://www.boontonschools.org/highschool.htm Boonton High School]
* [http://www.boontonschools.org Boonton Public Schools]
*NJReportCard|27|0450|0|Boonton Public Schools
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3401950 Data for the Boonton Public Schools] , National Center for Education Statistics