SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL (NEW JERSEY)

'Somerville High School' is a four-year comprehensive public high school of the Somerville Public Schools serving students from Somerville and Branchburg Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. Timothy O'Halloran is the school's principal. Other administrative positions are filled by Patricia Bucci (asst. principal), Gerard Foley (head of guidance), and Katherine Neary (disciplinarian).
Students from Branchburg Township attend Somerville High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Branchburg Township School District.
Advanced Placement Program (AP) courses (such as AP United States Government and Politics) and the Senior Options Program at Raritan Valley Community College allow students the opportunity to earn college credits while attending high school. During the 2004-05 school year, students enrolled in thirteen AP courses. The 2005-06 school year offerings include AP Biology, AP Calculus (AB/BC), AP Chemistry, AP English Literature and Composition, AP French Language, AP United States Government and Politics, AP Comparative Government and Politics, AP Music Theory, AP Physics, AP Spanish Language and AP United States History.

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Awards and Recognition

SHS Marching Band

Robotics

Famous Alumni

References

External links

Awards and Recognition

Somerville High School was the 74th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in ''New Jersey Monthly'' magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's ''Top Public High Schools''^[1].

SHS Marching Band

The Somerville High School Pioneer Marching Band finished off their exciting season performing this years theme, ''"Circle of Fifths"'' at a Competition at Rowan College. They scored an overall superior rating of 92.4.

Robotics

Somerville's robotics team is team 102, The Dexterous Gearheads.

Famous Alumni

★ Ben Carnevale (1915-), basketball coach inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1970.^[2]

★ Paul Robeson (1898-1976), American athlete, bass-baritone, concert singer, and civil rights activist.^[3]

References

1. Top Public High Schools in New Jersey: 51-100, ''New Jersey Monthly'', September 2006
2. Frezza Jr., Harry. "Raritan man attends Final Four for 57th time", ''Courier News'', April 1, 2001. Accessed August 2, 2007. "Ben Carnevale, who turns 86 on Oct. 30, has had the kind of life some people might call legendary. In fact, when you look at his life, which began in a house just off the last trolley stop on Gaston Avenue in Raritan Borough, you might agree. The 1934 Somerville High School graduate is a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. He is also the winningest coach in United States Naval Academy history, a survivor of a ship that was torpedoed during World War II, and somebody who had a lot to do with building the NCAA basketball tournament."
3. Paul Robeson - High School, accessed April 15, 2007. "Paul attended school in Somerville and graduated from Somerville High School in 1915."

External links

★ Somerville High School

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★ National Center for Education Statistics data for the Somerville Public Schools

★ Public School Review: Somerville High School