Middlesex High School (MHS) is a four-year comprehensive

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located in the center of

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, Middlesex County, in the

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, serving students in

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through

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s as the lone secondary school of the Middlesex Board of Education. The school is surrounded by Mountain View Park and all of its athletic complexes, including Memorial Field. As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 614 students and 52.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a

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of 11.6:1. There were 190 students (30.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 84 (13.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Middlesex High School

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. Accessed December 15, 2024.

History

The new high school opened in September 1959 with students in ninth and tenth grades. Prior to that time, students from Middlesex had attended

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. Middlesex students entering eleventh and twelfth grades continued their education at the Bound Brook school through graduation.

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 177th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in ''

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'' magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 155th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 183rd in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 169th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 148th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 158th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 3 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (83.6%) and language arts literacy (92.4%) components of the

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(HSPA).

Athletics

The Middlesex High School Blue JaysMiddlesex High School

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. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the

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, which includes public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County area and operates under the supervision of the

(NJSIAA). With 462 students in grades 10–12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group I for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 75 to 476 students in that grade range. The football team competes in Division 1A of the Big Central Football Conference, which includes 60 public and private high schools in Hunterdon, Middlesex,

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, Union and

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counties, which are broken down into 10 divisions by size and location. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group I South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 185 to 482 students. The school participates as the host school / lead agency for a joint wrestling team with Dunellen High School. Middlesex and Somerville High School are partners in a co-op ice hockey program with

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. These co-op program operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year. The football team won the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II state sectional championship in 1974, then in Central Jersey Group I in 1981, 1982, 1984 and 2017. The 1974 team finished the season with a 9-0-1 record after winning the first Central Jersey Group II sectional title of the playoff era with a 24–6 victory against Hillsborough High School indoors at the

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. The 1994 team defeated four-time defending champion South River High School by a score of 14–7 to win the Central Jersey Group I title and finish the season 10–1. In a turnaround from winning only one game in 2016, the football team won the 2017 Central Jersey Group I state sectional tournament with a 33–21 win at Alumni Stadium at

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against seventh-seeded Point Pleasant Beach High School in the tournament final. Middlesex ended its Thanksgiving Day rivalry with Dunellen High School in 2019, after 21 games in the annual series. The boys' wrestling team won the Central Jersey Group I state championships in 1985 and 1986. The baseball team won the Group I state championship in 1990 (defeating

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in the final game of the tournament playoff), 2007 (vs. Hoboken High School), 2013 (vs.

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), 2017 (vs.

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), 2018 (vs.

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) and 2021 (vs. New Providence); the six state group titles are tied for eighth-most in the state.Baseball Championship History: 1959–2024

, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024. The team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional championship in 1982, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2007 (in a 13–3 win over

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) and again in 2013 (with a 4–0 win over

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). The team won the Group I state championship in 1990 vs. New Providence High School and again in 2007 (with a 14–12 win over Hoboken High School) and in 2013 (defeating

by a 9–5 score). The team won the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament (GMCT) Championship in 2012, with a 10–4 win over

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. The softball team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional titles from 2001 through 2004. The team won the New Jersey State Group I championship in 2004, defeating Cedar Grove High School in the playoff finals. Increased enrollment made Middlesex a Group II team in 2005 and they won the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament (GMCT) championship in 2005 with a 2–1 win in extra innings against East Brunswick High School. The boys tennis team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional title in 2003, and in 2007 with a 3–2 win vs. Florence Township Memorial High School. The boys' basketball team won the Central Jersey Group I state sectional title in 1994, the program's first championship, with a 55–35 win against Piscataway Technical High School in the tournament final. The boys cross country team won the Mountain Valley Conference championship in 1982, 1983, 1989, 1991, and 1992. Girls Track two-time GMC division champs (2010–2012) *1st Place Medium Varsity 2005 Del Val Invitational *1st Place Medium Varsity 2005 UCA Regional *1st Place Medium Varsity 2006 UCA Garden State Open

Clubs

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* Youth and Government * Academic Tournament * Peer Leadership * Gay-Straight Alliance * National Honors Society *

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Administration

The principal is Ryan Regan. His core administration team includes the assistant principal and the athletic director.

Notable alumni

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, and

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, best known for hosting the weekly

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comedy program ''

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''Coach and Athletic Director'', January 1, 2007. Accessed November 20, 2014. "Coach: You were born in Trenton, NJ in 1956 and graduated from Middlesex (NJ) High School. What was your childhood like? What sports did you participate in?"

References

External links

Middlesex High School web pagesMiddlesex Borough Public Schools
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School Data for the Middlesex Board of Education

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