Each successive year, all of the grades incremented by 1 (1964 was 7-10, 1965 was 8- was 9-12) In 1966 the first High School Class of WTHS graduated. WTHS opened in September 1963, serving grades 6-9 while parts of the building were still under construction. History 11-12 Wing Ĭonstruction on what is now the 11-12 wing of the high school began in 1962. The school was ranked 150th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. The magazine ranked the school 149th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school had been ranked 165th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 175th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The school was the 149th-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. Most of the school's concerts and events are held there, and many notables have performed in this center, including the Barenaked Ladies, Tony Bennett, Wayne Brady, George Carlin, David Copperfield, Bill Cosby, BB King, Barry Manilow, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Jessica Simpson, Lewis Black, Pete Davidson, and 'Weird Al' Yankovic. Washington Township High School is the home of the Republic Bank Performing Arts Center, known until 2022 as the Investors Bank Performing Arts Center, a 2,500-seat performing arts center located at the center of the school. There were 256 students (11.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 69 (3.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. It is located at 509, 519 and 529 Hurffville-Cross Keys Road.Īs of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,165 students and 177.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1. The school building itself is just over a quarter of a mile long. It is one of the largest public high schools in South Jersey. The school serves students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Washington Township Public School District. Washington Township High School is a four-year public high school located in Washington Township, in Gloucester County, in the U.S.

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