Morris Hills Regional High School District

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The Morris Hills Regional District is a comprehensive regional public school district that consists of two four-year public high schools serving four suburban communities in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves a total of 2,662 students.

The district serves the residential communities of Denville Township (766 students), Rockaway Borough (315 students), Rockaway Township (1,250 students) and Wharton (331 students).[1]

For the 1996-97 school year, both Morris Hills High School[2] and Morris Knolls High School[3] were named as "Star Schools" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve.

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[edit] Schools

Students in grades 9 - 12 attend one of the district's two schools (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[4]):

  • Morris Hills High School serves students from Rockaway Borough, Wharton, and parts of Rockaway Township . The school is located in Rockaway Borough. 1,175 students.
    • Joe Cacciaguida - Principal
    • Bob Merle - Assistant Principal
    • Jennifer Sisko - Assistant Principal
    • Todd Toriello - Assistant Principal
  • Morris Knolls High School serves students from Denville and parts of Rockaway Township.[5] The school is located in Denville. 1,622 students.
    • Bill Cleffi - Principal
    • Jim Devlin - Assistant Principal
    • Erin Morgan - Assistant Principal
    • Bill Schilling - Assistant Principal

Merle, Sisko, and Toriello are graduates of Morris Knolls. Cleffi is a graduate of Morris Hills.

[edit] Administration

This is effective August 1, 2009

  • Jim Jencarelli - Superintendent
  • Nisha Zoeller - Interim Assistant Superintendent
  • Joann Gilman - Business Administrator

[edit] References

  1. ^ Links to Sending District Schools, accessed March 8, 2007
  2. ^ New Jersey Department of Education Star School Award recipient detail 1996-97 school year, Morris Hills High School, accessed May 29, 2006
  3. ^ New Jersey Department of Education Star School Award recipient detail 1996-97 school year, Morris Knolls High School, accessed May 29, 2006
  4. ^ Morris Hills Regional High School District, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed January 27, 2008.
  5. ^ Guidance, Morris Knolls High School. Accessed July 26, 2008. "Located in Morris County, Morris Knolls serves the residential communities of Denville and Rockaway Township which offer a fine combination of cosmopolitan living in a suburban atmosphere, 35 miles west of New York City."

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