North Hunterdon High School is a four-year regional public high school serving students from six municipalities in northern Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is one of two high schools in the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District.
Students from Bethlehem Township, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough and Union Township attend North Hunterdon; the school is located in the Annandale section of Clinton Township.About the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District, North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District. Accessed August 29, 2015. "North Hunterdon High School educates students from: Bethlehem Township, The Town of Clinton, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough, Union Township" Clinton Town and Glen Gardner residents can select either North Hunterdon or Voorhees High.Sending Districts, North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District. Accessed September 5, 2024."The North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District accepts students from 12 different municipalities and 11 sending districts. Any student who resides in Bethlehem Township, Clinton Township, Franklin Township, Lebanon Borough, and Union Township attends North Hunterdon High School. On the other hand, students living in Califon, Hampton, High Bridge, Lebanon Township, and Tewksbury Township go to Voorhees High School. Students who went to Clinton Public School (Town of Clinton and Glen Gardner) can opt to attend either North Hunterdon High School or Voorhees High School."
The school is accredited until January 2030 by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools.North Hunterdon High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed December 21, 2024.
As of the 2024–25 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,259 students and 116.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1. There were 40 students (3.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 12 (1.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for North Hunterdon High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 15, 2026.
The school's athletic team name is known as the Lions, and its mascot's name is Reggie, recognizing that the school was known as Regional in the past.Lee, Christine. "North Hunterdon, Voorhees to face each other at annual Milk Can game tonight", Hunterdon County Democrat, November 7, 2014, March 29, 2019. Accessed March 13, 2022. "North Hunterdon High School mascot 'Reggie' stands proud with the coveted golden milk can, currently held by the high school following last year's win." In the 1968–69 school year, an actual lion cub was used as a mascot."Reggie, Grid Team Mascot, To Be Real Lion This Year", Courier News, September 25, 1968. Accessed December 28, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "'Reggie, the Lion,' who has been the mascot for North Hunterdon Regional High School athletic teams in recent years, is going to be a real, live African male lion all 15 pounds of him."
History In the 1950s, all 11 of the original sending districts voted to pass a referendum for construction of a building that would cost $700,000 (equivalent to $ million in )."North Hunterdon Okehs Regional School Bonds", Courier News, February 8, 1950. Accessed March 13, 2022. "Approval of a $700,000 bond issue for construction of North Hunterdon Regional High School was given an eight-to-one majority in the regional school district election in 11 municipalities last night. There was a 25 per cent vote cast when 1,919 voters of an eligible registration of 6,814 turned out to decide the question." North Hunterdon Regional High School opened in September 1951 with 517 students in a 27-room facility constructed on a site."State Approval Of Plans : Waited By Regional Board", The Record, September 12, 1951. Accessed March 13, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "All members of the Board recently visited the new North Hunterdon Regional High School in Clinton, which opens this week with an enrollment of 517 pupils. The North Hunterdon School, which comprises 11 districts in the farm country area, was started in May 1950. It comprises 27 rooms, with 17 classrooms, and covers a 45-acre area for which the Hunterdon Regional Board paid $16,000 several years ago."
G. Clifford Singley was the school's first principal, and the football field was named in his honor in 1972.Snare, Lowell M. "Meet the men behind the names on our football fields", Hunterdon County Democrat, July 26, 2013. Accessed July 17, 2024. "North Hunterdon’s Dr. G. Clifford Singley Memorial Field is named for the high school’s first principal and first superintendent of what later became the North Hunterdon-Voorhees district. The nice thing was that the field as named in his honor while he was alive in the fall of 1972."
In October 1972, voters of High Bridge agreed to place the borough's high school students at North Hunterdon Regional High. High Bridge High School in High Bridge School District closed in 1973.Meddis, Sam. "An Era Ends at High Bridge", Courier News, p. B1, June 15, 1973. Accessed July 17, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Last night's commencement exercises here symbolized the end of an era for one of the state's tiniest high schools. The 39 seniors who received their diplomas are the last graduates of High Bridge High, and the school's 70-year history came to what many long-time residents must feel is a regrettable finale." In 1975, Voorhees High opened, relieving North Hunterdon High. Students in the following areas, except for incoming 12th graders (seniors), were reassigned to Voorhees High: Califon, High Bridge, Lebanon Township, and Tewksbury Township.Hagemann, Donna. "Boundaries split districts", Courier News, September 18, 1974, p. B6. Accessed September 5, 2024, via Newspapers.com.
Prior to 2014, Clinton Town students were zoned to North Hunterdon High,About the District, , North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District. Accessed September 5, 2024. after which Clinton and Glen Gardner residents were given the option to select which high school they wished to attend.Choice of District School, North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District. Accessed October 22, 2023. "Since 2014-2015, all students who attend Clinton Public School (Town of Clinton and Glen Gardner students) can select which high school they want to attend."
Awards, recognition and rankings For the 2001–02 school year, North Hunterdon High School was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education,National Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982 Through 2019 (PDF) , United States Department of Education. Accessed September 1, 2024. the highest award an American school can receive."CIBA cited as one of the best by Education Department", Journal Inquirer, November 16, 2006. "The Blue Ribbon award is given only to schools that reach the top 10 percent of their state's testing scores over several years or show significant gains in student achievement. It is considered the highest honor a school can achieve.""Viers Mill School Wins Blue Ribbon; School Scored High on Statewide Test", The Washington Post. September 29, 2005 "For their accomplishments, all three schools this month earned the status of Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the U.S. Education Department can bestow upon a school."
In its 2013 report on "America's Best High Schools", The Daily Beast ranked the school 623rd in the nation among participating public high schools and 48th among schools in New Jersey.Streib, Lauren. "America's Best High Schools" , The Daily Beast, May 6, 2013. Accessed May 9, 2013.
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 23rd in New Jersey and 759th nationwide.Mathews, Jay. "The High School Challenge 2011: North Hunterdon High School", The Washington Post. Accessed August 2, 2011. The school was ranked 654th nationwide, the 19th-highest in New Jersey, in Newsweek magazine's 2010 rankings of America's Best High Schools.Staff. "America's Best High Schools: The List", Newsweek, June 13, 2010. Accessed March 27, 2011. In Newsweek's May 22, 2007, issue, ranking the country's top high schools, North Hunterdon High School was listed in 587th place, the 11th-highest ranked school in New Jersey."The Top of the Class: The complete list of the 1,200 top U.S. schools", Newsweek, May 22, 2007. Accessed May 24, 2007.
The school was the 45th-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.Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014. The school had been ranked 66th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 60th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 7, 2012. The magazine ranked the school 43rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed March 28, 2011. The school was ranked 37th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state."Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank", New Jersey Monthly, September 2008, posted August 7, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2008. Schooldigger.com ranked the school tied for 36th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 7 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (93.0%) and language arts literacy (98.6%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2010–2011, Schooldigger.com. Accessed February 26, 2012.
In 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked North Hunterdon as the 39th best high school in New Jersey and 895th in the nation.Staff. North Hunterdon High School, U.S. News & World Report. Accessed January 4, 2017.
In 2019, North Hunterdon High School announced that their yearbook, Regis, won first place in the American Scholastic Press Association's annual yearbook competition and second place (Silver Award) from the Garden State Scholastic Press Association's annual yearbook contest.The school posted an announcement on the official North Hunterdon High School Facebook page on January 3, 2019.
In the news In 2021, a group of approximately ten parents demanded that the North Hunterdon Regional High School District Board of Education ban books with certain LGBTQ themes from the school library. Speaking at a school board meeting, one parent called the books "evil" and "wicked." Another compared several books to child pornography, and said, "this amounts to an effort to groom our kids to make them more willing to participate in the heinous act described in these books." The books in question were Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison and Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, novels that contain LGBTQ+ content and have been recognized for excellence by the American Library Association’s Alex Award. The group also demanded a ban on Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson and This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson.Makin, Cheryl. "Why some North Hunterdon parents want certain LGBTQ books removed from the school library", Courier News, October 21, 2021. Accessed September 5, 2024. The district's board of education ultimately decided to maintain access to all five books.