As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,381 students and 112.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1. There were 114 students (8.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 65 (4.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]
History
Constructed with 29 classrooms at a cost of $1.25 million (equivalent to $12.9 million in 2023), the new school opened in September 1960 with 750 students, including 150 children of those stationed at McGuire Air Force Base.[7]
In 1991 the school had over 400 students who lived on-post at McGuire.[8]
The school was the 141st-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.[10] The school had been ranked 156th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 186th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[11] The magazine ranked the school 153rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.[12] The school was ranked 184th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[13]
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 119th out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (an increase of 2 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the mathematics (86.1%) and language arts literacy (94.8%) components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[14]
Athletics
The Northern Burlington County Regional High School Greyhounds[3] compete in the Liberty Division of the Burlington County Scholastic League (BCSL), which operates under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association and is comprised of public and private high schools in Burlington, Camden, Mercer and Ocean counties in Central Jersey.[15] With 1,010 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range.[16] The school had previously competed in Group II, but the growth in the district's population has resulted in moving up to Group III. The football team competes in the National Division of the 94-team West Jersey Football League superconference[17][18] and was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV South for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 890 to 1,298 students.[19]
The school's mascot is the Greyhound, and colors are blue and grey.[3] In 2013, Northern Burlington's Board of Education officially branded and approved the school "NB" logo and school fight song.
Sectional and district championships
Baseball - 2015 Central Jersey Group III semifinals[20]
Softball - 1980, 1982, 1992, 2002, 2005 South Jersey Group II
Wrestling - 2000–01, 2004–05, 2005-06 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014-2015 District 25 champions
Football - 1971 Undefeated (9-0) Delaware Valley League champions
Football - 1972 Undefeated (9-0) Delaware Valley League champions
State championships / football state sectional titles
Football - 1980 undefeated South Jersey Group II state champions and 1995 South Jersey Group II state champions (9-2).[22] The 1980 team finished the season with an 11-0 record after winning the South Jersey Group II title by defeating Haddon Township High School by a score of 12-7 in the championship game on a touchdown scored after the clock had run out.[23] The 1995 team came back from 10 points down to win the South Jersey Group II state title by a score of 20-17 in the championship game against Kingsway Regional High School.[24]
Northern Burlington offers about 50 clubs for students to partake in.[30] Some of these clubs include Interact, a community ethics club, where students join forces to help the community, such as Ten Thousand Villages Sale, Relay for Life, Care Bags for Kids, nursing home party.[30] Another example being Video Club where students talk and help produce Northern TV, Northern's own television station which provides news to its sending districts.[31]
Special Education Program
The Special Education Program at Northern Burlington Regional High School focuses on the promotion of tolerance and appreciation of diversity of all variations. The Northern Burlington Regional High School provides Special Education students with a multitude of programs, such as in-class support, a variety of resource classrooms, replacement classes customized to the individual's particular needs as well as a Multiple Disabilities/Autistic program. The Northern Burlington Regional High School has established a Special Services Department, including Speech, Language and Behavioral Therapists, Instructional Assists as well as Special Education teachers at both the middle and high school levels.
Administration
The school's principal is Sally Lopez. Her core administration team includes three assistant principals.[32]
^"3 Counties Share Classroom Expansion", Courier-Post, September 3, 1960. Accessed April 1, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Just off Rt. 206 near Columbus in Mansfield Township, the new North Burlington County Regional High School will house some 750 pupils from Chesterfield, North Hanover, Springfield and Mansfield Townships. The student population will include approximately 150 children of servicemen stationed at McGuire Air Force Base. Built at a cost of $1,250,000 the school includes 29 classrooms and other facilities."
^"Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Education". Military One Source. Retrieved August 7, 2022. - This is a .mil site. The site explains there are three school district choices for McGuire and Dix. One of those districts is elementary-only, so logically the comprehensive high schools of the remaining two are the two choices.
^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."
^"Northern Burlington baseball holds off Mainland 6-4 in Group 3 state semifinals", NJAdvance Media for NJ.com, June 3, 2015, updated August 24, 2019. Accessed October 21, 2020. "When the Northern Burlington senior left the mound in the top of the fifth inning with a three-run lead, giving way to Greyhounds ace Ryan Shinn, it looked to be lights out for defending state champion Mainland in the semifinals of the NJSIAA/Star-Ledger/Parisi Group 3 tournament. But it took a missed sign and a heads-up play from new catcher Brett Parlante to make sure that Stinglen remained the winning pitcher as the Greyhounds, No. 7 in the NJ.com Top 20, held on to beat No. 16 Mainland, 6-4, at Rutgers on Wednesday."
^Benevento, Don. "Northern stuns Hawks with last-ditch TD pass", Courier-Post, December 7, 1980. Accessed January 26, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Chris Warrington heaved a 23-yard desperation touchdown pass to Mark Preeschl with no time left on the clock yesterday to lift Northern Burlington High School to the South Jersey Group 2 championship with a stunning 12-7 victory over Haddon Township. The play capped a frenzied final 1:11 of play that saw the third-ranked Greyhounds drive 47 yards for the winning score. The win ended their season at 11-0 and left them as the only unbeaten team in South Jersey."
^Santoliquito, Joe. "Greyhounds capture Group 2 title", The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 3, 1995. Accessed February 18, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Trailing by 17-7 in the fourth quarter of yesterday's South Jersey Group 2 football championship, Northern Burlington recovered a fumble and scored two touchdowns in the last eight minutes to pull out a 20-17 victory over Kingsway."
^Skaf, Lian. "Trio of scorers carries N. Burl. to Group 2 title", Courier-Post, March 12, 2003. Accessed August 18, 2007. "The trio combined for all of Northern Burlington's points with Davis scoring 17, Walton 14 and Gibbs eight as the Greyhounds beat Haddonfield 39-34 and captured the Group 2 championship at Williamstown."
^Haugh, David. "Haynes hopes he's answer", Chicago Tribune, June 24, 2003. Accessed July 17, 2008. "They chose McGuire Air Force Base 18 miles south of Trenton, N.J., and Haynes attended nearby Northern Burlington High."
