Millville High School is a comprehensive community public high school located in Millville, in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of Millville Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1943.Member Directory, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed September 20, 2012.
Maurice River Township sends 180 students who attend the district's high schools, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Maurice River Township School District.Maurice River Township School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education. Accessed September 26, 2017. "The Maurice River Township School District consists of one elementary school and is a sending district to the Millville School District for its high school students.... Maurice River Township transports approximately 180 students to the Memorial and Senior High Schools in Millville."Maurice River Township Elementary School , Maurice River Township School District. Accessed March 29, 2011. "The Maurice River Township School District consists of one elementary school and is a sending district to the Millville School District for its high school students.... Maurice River Township transports approximately 180 students to the Memorial and Senior High Schools in Millville." Commercial Township and Lawrence Township also send students to the district's high schools; The sending districts filed suit in 2009, challenging the way in which the Millville district charges for students from outside the district to attend the school.Jones, Jean. "Sending districts Maurice River, Commercial, Lawrence, Woodbine suing Millville School District over tuition rates", The News of Cumberland County, April 13, 2009. Accessed March 29, 2011. "The suit, filed in the state Administrative Law Court, asks the commissioner of education to resolve a dispute about the method which the Millville school district is using to estimate and audit tuition for four sending districts. The four districts, Maurice River, Commercial, Lawrence and Woodbine, have joined in the suit with Maurice River as the lead agency." Students from Woodbine had attended the district's high schools as part of a sending/receiving relationship, before the Woodbine district switched to have students attend Middle Township High School starting with freshmen starting school in the 2013–14 school year.Campbell, Al. "Woodbine School Proposes Consolidation with Middle Schools", Cape May County Herald, February 27, 2008. Accessed March 29, 2011. "One key factor, said Kopakowski, is Woodbine's sending-receiving relationship with Millville School District. That Cumberland County district, with about 6,400 pupils K-12 has long educated Woodbine's high school students."Campbell, Al. "Woodbine Freshmen to Enter Middle Township High School in September", Cape May County Herald, August 7, 2013. Accessed November 14, 2017. "The ride to high school will be a bit shorter this September for about 15 freshmen from Woodbine. That’s due to the July 29 decision by state Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf to permit eighth grade graduates from Woodbine to enter Middle Township High School instead of Millville High School. Pupils presently enrolled at Millville High School from Woodbine will graduate from there, to minimize impact on them."
As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,655 students and 81.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 20.4:1. There were 1,019 students (61.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 176 (10.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Millville High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 15, 2024.
History In 2016, the school board decided to create a single principal position for all high school students as it had plans to consolidate the two high schools.Smith, Joseph P. "Millville moving to 1 high school principal position", The Daily Journal, April 26, 2016. Accessed October 27, 2021. "The city school system wants its two high schools operating under one principal next year as it looks ahead to Millville Senior High School becoming a four-year institution. The Board of Education on Monday night unanimously approved creating a position for a principal with responsibility for ninth through 12th grades." That year Kathy Procopio, the principal, chose to retire.Smith, Joseph P. "Millville Senior High Principal Kathy Procopio retiring", The Daily Journal, February 23, 2016. Accessed October 27, 2021. David Gentile, the superintendent, stated that the retirement made the district's principal consolidation plans more complex.
As part of an expansion and renovation project overseen by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority that ultimately cost $145 million and had been scheduled to start in 2017, the school's capacity was to be doubled to accommodate up to 2,300 students, allowing all of the freshmen and sophomore classes that had been at Memorial High School to be consolidated at the Senior High School building; for the 2017–18 school year, all high school students were shifted into Millville High School.Smith, Joseph P. "Millville planners get look at high school expansion", The Daily Journal, March 15, 2016. "Schematic designs submitted to New Jersey for a proposed $110 million Millville Senior High School expansion were laid out before city planners Monday night.... On completion, the district will be able to consolidate at the senior high all freshman classes and those sophomore classes now in Memorial High School.... Additional space will allow the student population to increase from 1,200 now, approximately, to about 2,300."Smith, Joseph P. "First look Wednesday at Millville senior high expansion proposals", The Daily Journal, February 8, 2017. Accessed December 10, 2017. "Companies interested in taking on a pending Millville Senior High School expansion and renovation project submitted their technical proposals, as well as sealed pricing bids, on Wednesday afternoon to the New Jersey Schools Development Authority. The authority and Millville intend to start the multiyear project in mid-2017 after graduation. Students will be present during portions of the construction, though, since the estimated $110 million project should last into 2020.... The senior high will become a freshman class through senior class campus once the work is finished." The completion of the project was marked in September 2023, which ultimately doubled the size of the building and added of space to the facility that had opened in 1964 to replace the original high school building that was completed in 1925.Conklin, Eric. "Millville High School overhaul brings new era for students, officials say", The Press of Atlantic City, September 24, 2023. Accessed February 4, 2024. "After years of patience, a more than $140 million transformation of Millville High School is over. Officials on Thursday celebrated the project’s completion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside the doorway leading into the school’s new auditorium. The four-phase renovation began in 2018.... More than 200,000 square feet of additions and about 55,000 square feet of renovations were implemented at the building on North Wade Boulevard. The project increased the school’s size to about 375,000 square feet.... The original high school opened in 1964, replacing a building built in 1925, Superintendent Tony Trongone told the ceremony’s roughly 30 attendees."
Awards, recognition and rankings The school was the 291st-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 308th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 306th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed September 20, 2012. The magazine ranked the school 289th in 2008 out of 316 schools.Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed January 31, 2011. The school was ranked 295th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 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.
Millville High School is a participant in the NASA Toys in Space program, a joint project of American and Russian students to learn the science behind designing a toy, and about the study of space.Millville High School Students Participate in Toys in Space Project, New Jersey Department of Education, press release dated March 2, 2007.
Athletics The Millville High School ThunderboltsMillville Senior High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. compete in the American Division of the Cape-Atlantic League, an athletic conference comprised of parochial and public high schools located in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Gloucester counties that operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed October 20, 2020. With 1,260 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2022-23 school year as South, Group 4 for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,060 to 5,049 students in that grade range.NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 20, 2020. The football team competes in the American Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconferenceMillville Thunderbolts, West Jersey Football League. Accessed May 1, 2023.Home Page, West Jersey Football League. Accessed May 1, 2023. "The WJFL is a 94-school super conference that stretches from Princeton to Wildwood encompassing schools from the Colonial Valley Conference, the Burlington County Scholastic League, the Olympic Conference, the Tri-County Conference, the Colonial Conference, and the Cape Atlantic League. The WJFL is made up of sixteen divisions with divisional alignments based on school size, geography and a strength-of-program component." and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 890 to 1,298 students.NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2024–2026, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated September 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024.